The project

The "Martos project" is an international workshop on Stone Conservation and Urban regeneration, for graduates and young heritage professionals. It will be held in August & September 2012 on the 16th-century fountain of 'Fuente Nueva', at Martos, Andalusia, Spain. The fountain is a project of architect Francisco del Castillo, who had studied with the Italian architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola.

The main aim of this project is the comprehension of all the different tasks of a complete architectural conservation project, integrated with the planning of an urban regeneration of the surrounding area. The Martos project is structured on the basis of a complete project, giving the participants the opportunity to apply their theoretical skills in action.

Due to the limited dimensions of the fountain, all actions regarding the architectural elements, from planning to conservation treatment, can be completed by the end of the workshop, resulting in this manner in a small-scale model of the normal procedures of a complete conservation plan.

Contents

The duration of the workshop will be six weeks, from August 20 to September 30, 2012. The program of the workshop is structured as follows:

Lectures

Fieldwork

Laboratories

Data processing, Field exercises, Discussions & Presentations, all focused on the workshop's case study. It will also include side activities such as cultural and nature visits to other areas of interest in Andalusia, like Sevilla, Granada or Sierra de Cazorla. All the above activities will alternate, in accordance with the needs of the subject covered every week.

Week 1: Context, Concepts, General Methodology Introductory week, including a short presentation of the area's history and an overview of concepts and general practices in conservation projects.

Week 2: Survey week The main theme of the second week will be the survey, introducing instruments and methods and the documentation as a tool for conservation. By the end of the week a complete survey of the architectural elements must be produced, which will be the working base for the following weeks.

Week 3: Heritage Management & Dissemination / Diagnostics During the first part of the week we will work on sustainability, opening of our conservation project to the local community and working on dissemination strategies. The second part of the week will be dedicated to diagnostics, that is, the analysis of single elements and the pathologies of stone masonry.

Week 4-5: Stone conservation fieldwork Weeks four and five are fully dedicated to the hands-on conservation experience. At the same time the participants will be documenting all the steps of the conservation works. By the end of these two weeks the intervention will be completed and the relative documentation report produced.

Week 6: Planning future activities and dissemination The final week focuses on the regeneration project. That is, planning the regeneration of the urban area surrounding the fountain, aiming with this conservation project to incorporate the fountain in the contemporary urban life of the city again. The urban regeneration project will be carried out by local trainee masons in the near future

Invited speakers

• Manuela ÁLAMO VIDAL, BA in Humanities (Spain) Tourism and Culture Department, ADSUR.

• Dr. José Manuel ALMANSA MORENO, Art historian, (Spain) Lecturer, Department for Historic Heritage, Faculty of Humanities and Education Science, Univesity of Jaén.

• Dr. Irene ARROYO, Biologist (Spain) IPCE, Research and Training Department.

• Teresa BLANCO, Historian (Spain) Project Specialist of the Heritage Conservation Programme, Caja Madrid Foundation.

• Leontina CARRILLO ALASCIO, Biologist (Spain) MA Sustainable Environmental Management, University of Barcelona.

• José Manuel CRESPO, BA in Humanities (Spain) Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Geography and History, Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences, Univesity of Jaén.

• Jesús ESPINOSA GAITÁN, Geologist (Spain) Lab department, IAPH.

• Dr. Dave FARRELL, Corrosion and Conservation Engineer (UK) Managing Director of Rowan Technologies Ltd.

• Dr. Tomás FERNÁNDEZ DEL CASTILLO, Lecturer (Spain) Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry Department, Polytechnic University of Jaén.

• Marta GARCÍA DE CASASOLA GÓMEZ, Architect (Spain) Projects department, IAPH.

• Yolanda GARCÍA GÓMEZ, Art Historian (Spain) Romiri project participant.

• Lucía GÓMEZ-ROBLES, Architect and Art Historian (Spain), MA Restauro University of Rome Tre, Lecturer, Department for Historic Heritage, Faculty of Humanities and Education Science, Univesity of Jaén.

• David GUNDRY, Stonemason, conservator and project manager (UK) MSc, Grad. Dip. Build. Cons (AA), IHBC, APMP, City&Guilds.

• Dr. Peter GOULDSBOROUGH, Architect (UK) MA, D.Phil. University of York, former director of Studies, Centre for Conservation Studies, The University of York.

• Pablo GUTIÉRREZ, Architect (Spain) Toledano&Gutierrez arch. PhD Candidate and Researcher from Department of Architectural Projects, Madrid Polytechnic University.

• Ana JAVIERRE PASCUAL, BA in Law, BA in Business (Spain) MA in Arts and Cultural Management.

• Joseph KING, Architect (USA) Unit Director, Sites Unit, ICCROM.

• Pablo LATORRE, Architect (Spain) Project Specialist of the Heritage Conservation Programme, Caja Madrid Foundation.

• Julia MONTERO, BA in Chemistry (Spain) IPCE, Research and training department.


• Sandra MORENO MARTÍN, Licence in Medicine and Surgery (Spain) DIADRASIS Medical Advisor.

• Elke NAGEL, Diploma-Engineer of Architecture (Germany) MA Heritage Conservation, Scientific Assistant, Lecturer, Munich.

• Corrado PEDELÌ, Conservator (Italy) Soprintendenza per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Valle d'Aosta.

• Antonio PERAL LÓPEZ, Architect (Spain) Chief of the Historical Heritage Conservation Department, Consejería de Cultura de la Delegación Provincial de Jaén, Junta de Andalucía.

• Néstor PRIETO JIMÉNEZ, Art Historian/Conservator (Spain).

• Dr. Victoria QUIROSA-GARCÍA, Art Historian (Spain) Lecturer, Department for Historic Heritage, Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences, Univesity of Jaén.

• Alejandra del RIO MONGES, Architect (México), MSc. Built Environment: Sustainable Heritage, University College London.

• Héctor SÁENZ DE LACUESTA, Sociologist (Spain) Cooperation, IAPH.

• Silja Kristin SAELE, Architect (Germany), Department of Architectural Conservation, RWTH Aachen University.

• Dr. Nicholas STANLEY-PRICE, Heritage specialist (UK). MA, D. Phil. Oxford University, former ICCROM director.

• Laura-Melpomeni TAPINI, Conservator (Greece) ΜΑ (Hons) Conservation Studies - University of York.

• Dr. Manuel UREÑA CÁMARA, Lecturer (Spain) Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry Department, Polytechnic University of Jaén.