A. Sultan KARAOGLU SAHIN1, Saadet GUNER2 (1Inönü University , Malatya, Turkey / 2Friends of Cultural Heritage (FOCUH) Association, Istanbul, Turkey) Although protection and restoration of cultural heritage is a new profession for Turkey, it is seen as the profession of the time in developed countries. Although, Turkey is one of the countries having the richest cultural heritage in the world, the number of experts restorer is just a few. It is already known that Turkey, as part of her attempts to gain full membership into the EU, is in the process of compensating her infrastructural deficiencies and adapting her superstructural institutions to the EU norms. We are also aware of our significant deficiencies at our universities. One of them is the absence of “Training on Restoration and Conservation of Works of Art” at universities. Although there is such a training procedure in a lot of countries within the EU, there is unfortunately no such department dealing with “Restoration and Conservation of Works of Art” at any of the Faculties of Fine Arts in Turkey. This case leads to negative impacts on the conservation of our cultural heritage.” When education regarding planning and approaches of education on protection in European countries is studied, it is seen that the education is offered in primarily three branches mainly architecture, archaeology and fine arts at higher education level in the said countries. However, in Turkey are offered only by “Department of Restoration” in faculties of architecture. In addition to, “the Department of Protection and Restoration of Tangible cultural Properties” was established at Faculty of Science and Arts of Istanbul University in 1993. In contrary, there are no departments on “conservation of works of arts” at any faculties of fine arts, of which number is about 38 in Turkey. In this paper, this subject and the importance of the “Department of Restoration” in faculties of Fine Arts and conservation will be examined in detail. Purpose: The main pupose of this work is to raise up the conservation education in Turkey to the EU level and to find out solutions to the main problems in cultural heritage conservation by means of education planning. Methodology/Approach: This...

Kristina DŽIN / Aleksandra PAIC (Archeological Museum of Istria, Pula, Croatia) The poster introduces the architectonic (rooms, corridors, cistern) and construction elements (tegulae with production stamps, suspensurae, inlet and outlet pipes, canals) of the villa rustica on Stancija Peliceti. The numerous finds that emerged during archeological research serve as temporal indicator for the complex itself (glass, bronze, iron, fine and industrial kitchen pottery, amphorae, dolia and oil lamps). This previously unknown site was unearthed during the construction of one of the vital highways on the Istrian peninsula, at which point an archeological protective research was initiated. Primary analysis of the building complex found at this location sets the site’s main economic function in line with the numerous industrial centers of the prosperous, olive-rich Istrian region, along the main Roman transportation route Pola – Nesactium – Albona – Tarsatica. Keywords: villa rustica, oleariae, water...

Mahmut AYDIN / Saadet GUNER / Ali Kazim OZ (Friends of Cultural Heritage (FOCUH) Association, Istanbul, Turkey) “European Union Cultural Heritage Legislation and Turkey Project” International Legislations published by UNESCO, EU, EC, ICOMOS..etc are the guidelines for experts working on the protection of the cultural heritage. However, when the educations of archeologists, restorators and conservators, architects, art historians ..etc. who has the greatest role in the preservation of cultural heritage, it is not wrong to say that none of the departments of universities in Turkey, except for one or two universities, have lessons in English at all. Therefore, the legislations of European Union, conventions, charters, ethic codes …etc of UNESCO, ICOMOS, ICOM..published about the preservation of the cultural heritage in English and signed or will be signed by the Republic of Turkey are understood very little or not at all by the experts and decision makers. In this case, few translated texts into Turkish of these legislations are presented only on paper or can be delivered by the struggles of a few academics. This situation causes problems and unacceptable implementations during the protection of the cultural heritage in Turkey and on the way of the membership of Turkey to EU. In order to make up for this deficiency, our association (FOCUH) directs the EU Project (2006-2007) titled “EU European Union Cultural Heritage Legislation and Turkey Project” with the partnership of Dokuz Eylül University (DEU), Izmir to translate international legislations about culture and protection of the cultural heritage into Turkish. MA and PHD Students work in this Project. In this paper, this Project, its reasons, outputs..etc will be explained in detail. Keywords: cultural heritage, Turkey, EU legislations,...

Geoff CARVER (Germany) People travel the world in ever-increasing numbers just to get away, to taste and experience the exotic. So why would they build a Starbucks in the Opernplatz in Vienna, just across the street from the world-famous Sacher Hotel? Why do people travel great distances to experience not the “original” or the “authentic,” but “only” a simulacrum of rich café culture and traditions? There seems to be a paradox in the fact that… the more people travel, the more things become the same: we encounter a global ubiquity, where every street in every city looks the same as any other, all lined with the same international chains of shops and fast-food restaurants: the exopolis. So why travel…? If nothing else, this globalised consumer culture is probably not sustainable: how long will it take for tourists to realise the absurdity of travelling long distances to do the same things they do at home? This paper starts with the premise that cities are uniquely human creations, that each city is expressed in its streets and layouts, and that one way to fight the worst aspects of that inhuman juggernaut known as globalisation is to re-examine what makes us – and what we value as – humans. This can be done in part by reading the text of city as a palimpsest of its own history, and to focus attention back on the...

Alvaro HIGUERAS (University of Rome 2, Italy) The concept of value and importance of cultural heritage is indeed very relative as one considers the societies that hold them in trust, promote them and preserve them with the highest standards, or other societies that have such heritage in their territory but is not part of their general culture and does not fit in their identity concepts. In other words, in these latter societies the links to the past are not always automatic even if highly rich sites and heritage exist, more so in regions where conquests of different empires along the centuries have constantly changed the power structures of the land. In this paper I will explore four cases of relationships between current populations and their cultural heritage: Libya, Bosnia, Eritrea, and Ghana. The state of cultural heritages and its status varies depending of its history: cultural heritage may be considered as such by foreign populations and not locals, or considered important by locals but with little enthusiasm for its preservation. How does cultural heritage management work in such conditions? The long history of foreign archaeological missions is changing with a strong component of preservation in situ and not in metropolitan museums, as moving heritage out of the country is no longer possible. Are we aiming at new international cooperation concepts for the preservation of certain cases of cultural...

Masha VUKANOVIC (Centre for Study in Cultural Development, Belgrade, Serbia) Creation of touristy attraction is a complex task. Process usually includes identification of possible spots and potentials that they have, researching backgrounds and elements that might be used as cornerstones for future story, etc. Then, (newly) established touristy attraction needs to be incorporated into complete touristy offer of certain place, meaning it has to be linked with other attractions and places past, present and future. Then, (newly) established touristy attraction needs to be appropriately promoted so it can start attracting visitors to come, visit it and spend some time there. Now, assumingly that touristy attraction in question is actually existing cultural heritage there are some more pre-conditions that have to be completed. This includes conservation and other preparatory actions that will provide appropriate “usage” of cultural heritage site. Once all of the pre-conditions are completed touristy attraction starts its own (new) life. Among Belgrade’s touristy attractions is a quarter known as Skadarlija and Tourist Organization of Belgrade is promoting it as “bohemian quarter”. So, here I shall provide short background of Skadarlija (what is the reason for promoting this quarter as bohemian one and not some place else) and analysis of elements that were used in creation of this touristy attraction. The point is to show that cultural heritage might be used as a frame for constructing something completely...