Sustainable Management of Change – The Science of Preserving Cultural Heritage

In this lecture, Stefan Simon, Director of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), Yale University provides an introduction to the preservation of cultural heritage as sustainable management of change. It can be accessed from the official Youtube channel of Yale University.

Yale’s IPCH is a research collaborative, dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of material culture. It serves the humanities by revealing origins and histories that show civilization as interwoven and evolving. This lecture demonstrates how cultural heritage preservation is a platform for interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

Some of the topics presented in the lecture are:

• Studies on authenticity, fake and forgery detection
• Sustainable preservation in times of crisis, man-made natural disasters and climate change
• Stakeholder involvement as key criteria to sustainability.