Module 4:Documentation

This module will provide the participants with the knowledge of principles and techniques for documentation and survey of tangible and intangible cultural heritage at the regional, city, neighborhood, and building levels (i.e., topographic site survey, area level mapping, and the documentation and inventory for individual cultural heritage components, oral histories, cultural practices). This will include analysis at regional/city level to identify various historical layers of the city, tracing remains of the historic fabric, traditional infrastructure, and urban patterns. Participants will examine relationships within a geographical context (i.e., the need to build on existing research and publications, old city maps, historical accounts available in various libraries and private collections). Finally, they will apply a variety of tools and techniques to a selected case study to develop a comprehensive set of documentations that could be used for deciding the nature and scope of conservation interventions. 

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Learning Outcomes

  •  Understanding: Through lectures, case studies and practical field work at the selected case study site, where documentation has and will inform conservation decision making
  • Comprehending: The principles and guidelines through practical application on the case study site
  •  Identifying: A methodology depending on the project site
  • Applying: the methodology using a variety of tools and techniques
  • Knowing: professional practice

 Curriculum

  • Understand the importance of documentation for informed decision making.

  • Comprehend the principles and guidelines for documentation.

  • Identify a methodology for using the appropriate tools/techniques for documentation.

  • Apply the methodology using a variety of tools and techniques.

  • Apply documentation in professional practice

Topics

Topic 1-Introduction to documentation 

Learning Objectives:

• Develop an understanding the importance of documentation for         informed decision making.
Lectures
Classroom Activity
Field Activity
Reading
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Topic 2-Guiding Principles of Documentation. 

Learning Objectives:

• Comprehend the principles and guidelines for documentation.
• Basic knowledge of survey and documentation of buildings, sites,       urban elements and infrastructure system(s)
Lectures
Classroom Activitu
Field Activity
Reading

 Related topics:

    Module 3-Topic 1: Introduction to heritage significance and values and                                                  their qualifiers.
   Module 3-Topic 2: Methodology for identifying, assessing, and mapping                                           heritage values and attributes.
  Module 3-Topic 6: conflicting and changing nature of values and assessing                                          their loss.
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Topic 3.1-Methods and Tools for Documentation – City and Neighborhood. 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand inventories and macro level documentation.
• Develop an understanding of documentation at neighborhood and     area levels
Lectures
Classroom Activity
Field Activity
Reading

 Related topics:

     Module 3-Topic 3: Collection and analysis of information sources.
     Module 3-Topic 5: significance of tangible and intangible heritage of                                                     Mosul.
    Module 7-Topic 3: Typology and levels of interventions.
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Topic 3.2-Methods and Tools for Documentation – Building Level. 

Learning Objectives:

• Documentation of heritage buildings and individual components
• Nature, size and complexity of architectural elements subject to           documentation, as well as their position within the sequence of ‘         conservation subsystems’
• The location of cultural heritage elements with respect to site               topography
Lectures
Classroom Activity
Field Activity
Reading

 Related topics:

    Module 3-Topic 3: Collection and analysis of information sources.
    Module 5-Topic 1: Identification of Structural elements and analyzing their                                          behavior and design.
   Module 5-Topic 4: Understanding and analysis of structural damages of                                               heritage buildings.
Module 7-Topic 3: Typology and levels of interventions.
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Topic 4-Monitoring and reporting in documentation. 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the process for using heritage documentation for               producing the necessary documents needed for conservation               interventions. 
Lectures
Classroom Activity
Field Activity
Reading

 Related topics:

Module 7-Topic 3: Typology and levels of interventions.
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Topic 5-Application of Documentation in Heritage Recovery. 

Learning Objectives:

• Create working drawings, technical specifications, and bills of             quantities.
• Understand how to use bidding documents, health and safety             requirements, and contract administration.
Lectures
Classroom Activity
Field Activity
Reading

 Related topics:

Module 2-Topic 2: Understanding the local context.
Module 3-Topic 4: Linking value assessment to different steps of heritage                                           recovery.
Module 5-Topic 7: Identification and treatment of different types of damages                                      at the material level First aid and shoring design.
Module 6-Topic 6: Decision making and stakeholder involvement in recovery                                        planning.
Module 7-Topic 5: Designing and implementation of stabilization interventions                                   for heritage building.
Module 7-Topic 7: Site Management.
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Topic 6-Data management and recording techniques.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to adapt the methodology to fit the available resources,     budget, skills, etc.
• Understand the tools and techniques to be used for management       of data.
Lectures
Classroom Activity
Field Activity
Reading

 Related topics:

Module 5-Topic 2: The application of numerical modeling and the distinct                                            element method for analyzing heritage structures.
Module 5-Topic 5: Monitoring and reporting damages.
Module 7-Topic 9: Monitoring and reporting for recovery implementations
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Main Instructor:

Rand Eppich
Architectural conservator and heritage documentation consultant, United States

Contributors:

Hirofumi Ikawa  
Sabah Hussein
Abdulrahman Ramzy
Omar Al-Hafith

Mustafa Khaled Abdel Razzaq

Omar Mohammed

Omar Fadhil Hasan

Georges Khawam
Daniele Pini  
Ahmed Chakmakchi