Friday, November 8, 2024

14:00 - 14:45

Sala Sinopoli

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Stéphanie Likes, Association Aprévu, Paris, France Celine Rince-Vaslin, Association AFROA, Paris, France Are professional practices in the field of material conservation of collections – preventive conservation, remedial conservation, restoration, collection management, conservation sciences – consistent with ecological concerns? Do professionals in this field have the means to reconcile sustainable development and sustainable conservation? In France, three professional associations, AFROA (French Association of Registrars), AprévU (Association of PreventiveConservation specialists), and FFCR (French Federation of Conservators), have launched a joint survey to understand how the professional practices and the official standards are linked : - Are practices in line with available literature? - Does the training available address the scientific and technical questions that professionals face in their dailyactions? - Are field practices aligned with official standards such as manuals, norms, and more generally, the procedures ofheritage institutions? - Which standards are being used ? Why ? How ? This online questionnaire, conducted from November 7, 2023, to January 31, 2024, gathered over 200 responses and allowed us to assess professional practices regarding topics such as artwork packaging and transportation, loans, climate management and waste management. The survey results are available in the form of an analytical report. Considering the importance environmental challenges must have today and the civic role of cultural institutions, we aim to represent French professionals in conservation and collection management at the ERC 2024 in Rome. We intend to present the results of the survey and of the exchanges that followed, to initiate discussions with professionals from various countries and, moreover, to work on concrete ways to better align professional practices and ecological responsibility.