Michelle Duong and Joe Kallas will be stepping down as team leads of the CIPA Emerging Professionals Leadership Team and are excited to announce that Margarita Skamantzari and Yogender Yadav will be taking on the role of Co-Chairs starting in January 2025. We encourage all members of the CIPA EP community to support and collaborate with our new Co-Chairs.
CIPA Heritage Documentation is excited to announce our newest Sustaining Member, Overhead4D. With their extensive experience and passion in the field of documentation, we welcome Overhead4D with enthusiasm and thank them for their support.
The ICOMOS 2024 Annual General Assembly and Scientific Symposium were held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from November 9–12, organized by ICOMOS Brazil. CIPA was well-represented by members, including President Prof. Fulvio Rinaudo, Comm. III co-chair Em. Prof. Andreas Georgopoulos, and EP members Margarita Skamantzari, Renata Cima Campiotto, and Fabiane R. Savino.
We are thrilled to announce the publication of Reviving Aleppo initiated and edited by our members Rahaf Orabi and Fabian Thiel, now available through Springer Nature, in the series “Cities, Heritage and Transformation”. This book is the culmination of extensive work, intense reviews and contributions from the 2021 online conference.
The Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI) recently held a workshop on standardization from June 11-14, 2024, in Ithaca, New York. APTI, a global organization dedicated to promoting the best practices for the preservation of historic structures, brought together experts from various disciplines to discuss the future of heritage documentation.
This year’s Summer School attracted 39 participants from 22 countries, including Italy, Spain, Germany, Canada, and others. The participants came from diverse professional backgrounds and age groups, reflecting the broad appeal of the school in advancing knowledge on heritage conservation techniques.
The International Symposium on Cultural Heritage Conservation by Digitalization (CHCD2024) was held from July 16-19, 2024, in Beijing. With the theme Re-Shape, the event featured panels, presentations, digital exhibitions, heritage site excursions, and a Kuche culture gala. Organized by Tsinghua University and CIPA, it marked a decade of collaboration since 2014.
The Siena 3D-ARCH24 Workshop, now in its 10th year, concluded on Feb. 23, 2024. The three-day workshop (Feb. 21-23) was held at the University of Siena and organized by Stefano Campana, Fabio Remondino, and Francesco Fassi. As per tradition, the workshop was under the umbrella of CIPA Heritage Documentation and ISPRS.
To CIPA Members in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada region:
You are invited to join us for an in-person, special lecture by Joe Kallas, titled Technology-Driven Disaster Response: Insights from the Beirut 2020 Explosion at the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) on Thursday, February 29th at 3:00 pm. The lecture is being hosted in collaboration by CIMS and CIPA Heritage Documentation.
The ISPRS-WGII6 is interested in listing published cultural heritage-related 3D point cloud datasets.
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