Cultural Heritage at Risk - Perspectives on Technologies, Materials, Modelling and Digitalization

Dear Colleagues,

The cultural and societal impact of cultural heritage assets has generated an increased interest in the scientific community, promoting innovative approaches to issues raised by the necessity of preserving our identity. Materials research has an unquestionable role in this approach by developing strategies and methodologies, crosslinking different aspects related to cultural heritage materials, attaining a better comprehension of their properties and historical applications, disclosing correlations and interactions between materials and raw materials with different origins, and supporting a compatibility evaluation with new and improved materials in the context of qualified interventions on heritage assets. In recent times, CH is endangered by several different factors, requiring, even more, detailed diagnostics and appropriate solutions to guarantee its preservation and transmission to future generations.

This Special Issue provides an appropriate forum for presenting multidisciplinary cutting-edge scientific and technological approaches to cultural heritage concerns and perspectives involving the large and varied community of international experts in art, archaeology, ancient technology, materials, conservation, weathering, restoration strategies, climate change and anthropic pressure. Within the framework of the current complexity of the economic and social context, this special issue intends to address the most pressing concerns facing CH and to point to possible new routes, bridging all areas of knowledge, presenting updated reflections, alongside the dissemination of good practices, by promoting a close cooperation between CH researchers, professionals, students, policymakers and authorities. The attendees of the EMRS Spring Meeting 2023 Symposium U, as well as other interested colleagues, are encouraged to submit for publication their contributions on the several hot topics, including but not restricted to:

• Materials and methodologies;
• Conservation and restoration;
• Sustainability;
• Climate impact;
• Risk assessment;
• Modelling and theoretical approaches;
• Multi-scale imaging;
• Monitoring and remote sensing;
• Dating and authenticity;
• Geoarchaeology;
• Archaeometry;
• Historical studies;
• Cultural tourism and economy.
  

Dr. Giuseppina Padeletti
Dr. João Pedro Veiga
Dr. Anne Bouquillon
Guest Editors

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