The HKB research institute Materiality in art & culture and the Conservation-Restoration division regularly organize talks on subjects concerning conservation and restoration.

12.5.2022, 17:30-19:00 

Conserving “Us:” Caring for Living Heritage, Oral Tradition and Indigenous Knowledge
A Conversation with Brandie Macdonald

What does it take to care for living heritage and indigenous knowledge? What does it mean to conserve oral tradition or spiritual performance? Brandie Macdonald, the senior Director of Decolonializing Initiatives, Chickasaw Nation/Choctaw Nation at San Diego Museum of Us, will discuss these and related questions with the research team behind the SNSF research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge. Among the issues raised will be, how indigenous performance might be preserved in and beyond institutions, what decolonialization might mean in an institution concerned with indigenous culture, what does intellectual property mean in these contexts, how museums can become a space for engaging with living objects, and how to approach these through a decolonialized lens.

Referent: Brandie Macdonald
Moderation: Hanna B. Hölling and Emilie Magnin
Host: Sebastian Dobrusskin, Institute Materiality in Art and Culture

Zoom-Link: https://hkb-bfh-ch.zoom.us/j/95860659823?pwd=eFN4SEhwaTAzYks1TWJ1UTk5OUVYZz09

20.6.2022

The 2022 Teachers’ Day will be hosted by the SUPSI/DACD in Mendrisio, with a presentation of its new location.
The program will focus on exchange about different topics related to teaching.

All teachers of the Swiss CRC are cordially invited to participate.

22.-23.9.2022

The HKB students of the Master’s program in conservation-restoration will present their MA thesis.

The program will follow.

16.10.2022

Seeing what you don’t normally see – this is the aim of the European Restoration Day. Restorers from all over Europe open their doors on the second Sunday in October to show interested people their working world, which is otherwise hidden from view.

The Swiss CRC and SKR will organize different activities.

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17.10.2022

A yearly visit of a Swiss CRC location is organized by the students for the BA1 and BA2 students.

The next visit is planed at SUPSI in Mendrisio, with visits of the ateliers and presentations by students.

11.11.2022

The Swiss CRC diploma ceremony for the MA graduates in Conservation-Restoration will be organized at Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-Restauration in Neuchâtel.