This paper investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) can be integrated into the digital restoration and innovative transformation of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), using Fengxiang woodblock New Year prints as a representative case. Rather than framing AI as an autonomous creative agent, the study positions AI as a supportive component within a human-centred, constraint-based design workflow. Adopting a qualitative and practice-based research approach, the paper examines how AI-assisted image restoration, constrained generative exploration, and designer-led evaluation interact during the design process. The findings indicate that AI can contribute to the interpretation and preservation of traditional generative logic while supporting culturally grounded adaptation in contemporary cultural and creative products. The study further argues that maintaining human judgement and cultural constraints is essential for preventing stylistic drift and ensuring responsible AI use in heritage-sensitive design contexts.
Biological conservation and ecological restoration differ in their motivations, objectives, and dominant concepts. These differences translate into a dichotomy between the two disciplines in academia, which we illustrate through a review of the scientific literature. Conversely, in practice, conservation and restoration are part of an environmental management continuum and are often used as complementary tools. While we found an increasing transdisciplinary trend in the literature, there is much room for improvement. Optimized implementation of conservation and restoration actions is critical for addressing the increasing pressures of global change and we propose steps to better integrate the two disciplines.
L'étude explore l'utilisation de cheveux humains dans l'art contemporain à travers des oeuvres d'art de l'artiste belge Hélène de Gottal. Elle emploie la technique traditionnelle utilisée par les dentellières, ainsi que des fixatifs de cheveux, pour créer des masques utilisant son visage comme modèle. Les cheveux humains sont une matière organique fragile qui est sensible à la lumière, la température et l'humidité relative.
César Bargues Ballester, William Whitaker, Frank G. Matero
The Arts Building and Cloister (1963-1967) is a rare architecture that brings together building traditions of Japanese and Pennsylvanian influence with innovative engineering in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid roof. Designed by the JapaneseAmerican architect and woodworker George Nakashima (1905-1990), the building is one of over a dozen residences, workshops and storages built on his property in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The complex and evolving relationship between the historical significance of the site and the furniture business prompted the preparation of a conservation and management plan to ensure its long-term protection and maintenance. This article summarizes the building’s design, its evolution and the main challenges of conservation of a place that is as much informed by its physical design as it is in accommodating its cultural significance as a center for peace and understanding through art and craft.
Conservation and restoration of prints, Architectural drawing and design
SummaryIn recent decades, community groups have transformed habitat restoration, pest control and species translocations in New Zealand. Large areas of wild New Zealand benefit hugely from ongoing management by community‐based restoration groups. Areas near cities and towns have especially good access to pools of keen volunteers. Community groups are involved in monitoring progress with their work, as well as monitoring biodiversity changes in general at their project sites. New tools powered by modern technologies are creating the opportunity for New Zealand's community volunteers to play a transformative role in biodiversity monitoring for either purpose. These tools are reducing the resources and expertise required for species detection and identification. Smartphones with cameras,GPS, audio recorders and data apps make it easier than ever to record species observations. Crowd‐sourced identification of species in photographs and sounds loaded onto NatureWatchNZallow volunteers to make observations of a much wider range of taxa than just common birds and trees. Realising this potential requires community groups, scientists and their institutions to collaborate in building and maintaining simple, accessible monitoring systems that (i) require and promote standard monitoring methods, (ii) provide efficient data entry in standard formats, (iii) generate automated results of use to community groups and (iv) facilitate public sharing of data to contribute to regional, national and global biodiversity monitoring. Some New Zealand monitoring systems developed recently to assist community‐based restoration groups with monitoring mammalian predator control are good examples of this approach. Making this happen at a large scale across many community groups and taxa requires increased and coordinated long‐term institutional support for monitoring systems and training.
Desde hace dos años, ha resurgido un interés por el uso de los morteros de cal viva mezclados en caliente en el Reino Unido y en Irlanda, aunque muchos de los involucrados vienen usando los morteros mezclados en caliente desde hace diez años o más. El resurgimiento de los morteros mezclados en caliente es el resultado del esfuerzo colectivo de albañiles irlandeses, escoceses e ingleses y de profesionales del mundo de la restauración y ha revitalizado el movimiento de la cal por las Islas Británicas. El objetivo de este artículo es describir este resurgimiento y resumir los beneficios esenciales de los morteros mezclados en caliente para uso en reparación y conservación compatible con edificios históricos por el mundo.
Conservation and restoration of prints, Architectural drawing and design
El puente de Santa Quiteria en Castellón constituye una pieza única entre las tipologías de puentes medievales al estar construido con arcos en vez de bóvedas. La restauración que se presenta, además de plantear una recuperación estética digna de su valor monumental, aborda la solución de sus patologías estructurales intentando conjugar el respeto a los sistemas constructivos tradicionales con métodos innovadores.
Conservation and restoration of prints, Architectural drawing and design
In this article we shall have a look at laser research in the field of conservation and restoration from its infancy until today, examining its reach, limits and techniques and reviewing different results obtained not only on stone materials but also on other works of art with different characteristics.
Conservation and restoration of prints, Architectural drawing and design
At the last General Assembly of the World Heritage Committee, held in Mérida, Mexico, the Historic Centre of Porto was included in the list of World Heritage ensembles. The architect Álvaro Gómez-Ferrer, who presented the report submitted by Porto Municipal Corporation, makes some points about its historic, patrimonial and urbanistic value, putting special emphasis on the legal protection and management of the rehabilitation works
Conservation and restoration of prints, Architectural drawing and design
La demolición del singular Palacio del Embajador Vich en 1859 trajo consigo la dispersión de los restos de su magnífico patio renacentista que, en parte, fueron impostados en el refectorio gótico del ex-Convento del Carmen de Valencia en 1909. El hallazgo de otro conjunto de fragmentos del patio en el Museo de Bellas Artes de la ciudad ha despertado la iniciativa del desmontaje de las piezas integradas en el refectorio y la recomposición museística del patio con los fragmentos que se conservan. El presente artículo defiende la intervención ecléctica de principios de siglo y plantea dudas sobre la oportunidad de esta doble operación.
Conservation and restoration of prints, Architectural drawing and design