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We offer support in these areas:

• heritage management assessments
• managing planning processes
• heritage impact assessments
• master planning
• public consultation
• GIS creation
• audience development
• heritage interpretation
• survey and 3D modelling
• public-private partnership
• meeting World Heritage requirements

Select clients:

• Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici del Lazio
• European Commission
• Getty Conservation Institute
• National Trust (UK)
• Packard Humanities Institute
• Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma
• Sri Lanka Ports Authority
• University of Roma Tre

We offer support in these areas:

• capacity development for the heritage sector
• World Heritage
• heritage management
• integration of a sustainable development perspective into heritage management
• impact assessment methodologies for heritage
• alignment between nature and culture sector
• reforms of national heritage systems

Examples of policy frameworks and resources to which we have contributed as consultants or advisors:

• Guidance for Impact Assessment for World Heritage (World Heritage Leadership, ongoing)
• Protective Shelters for Archaeological Sites (British School at Rome, 2018)
• Policy for the Integration of a Sustainable Development Perspective into the Processes of the World Heritage Convention (ICCROM, 2015)
• People-Centred Approaches to the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ICCROM, 2015)
• Task force member for the phased reorganization of the Italian Ministry of Culture and Tourism (2014-2015)
• Member of joint commission of Italian Ministry of Culture and Muncipality of Rome for a strategic plan for Rome’s central archaeological area (2014)
• UNESCO resource manual Managing Cultural World Heritage (ICCROM, 2013)
• World Heritage Strategy for Capacity Building (ICCROM, 2011)

Capacity areas:

• management planning
• heritage impact assessments
• Geographic Information Systems
• heritage interpretation
• engagement in/promotiong of heritage
• people-centred approaches to conservation
• project management
• heritage as an enabler of sustainable development
• survey techniques

Select capacity building providers we’ve worked for:

Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage

• Heritage and Environmental Impact Assessment course (Oman, 2018)

Bocconi University

• Heritage Management masters course (Italy, 2013 - ongoing)

British School at Rome

• MOSAIKON Symposium on Shelters for Archaeological Sites with Mosaics (Italy, 2013)

Coopération Transfrontalière Italie-Tunisie

• Architecture domestique punique, hellénistique et romaine: sauvegarde et mise en valeur workshops (Italy/Tunisia, 2014)

Getty Conservation Institute

• ­­­MOSAIKON training in the Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites with Mosaics (Italy, 2012/2015)

ICCROM

• People, Nature, Culture courses (Italy 2015/2017; Albania/North Macedonia 2016; Norway, 2017; Zambia, 2018; Sri Lanka, 2019)
  • https://www.iccrom.org/news/lake-ohrid-communities-inspire-heritage-practitioners-south-east-europe
  • https://www.iccrom.org/news/course-report-linking-nature-and-culture-roros-mining-town
  • https://www.iccrom.org/news/victoria-falls-bridging-people-nature-culture
  • https://www.iccrom.org/news/connecting-people-nature-culture-sri-lanka-pnc19
• Assessing Impacts on Heritage in Kotor workshop (Montenegro, 2018)
• Conservation of Built Heritage courses: management module; the UNESCO-supported special modules on sustainable development, nature/culture, heritage impact assessments, heritage interpretation; strategic field exercises (Italy 2007-2016)

ICCROM-Sharjah

• ICCROM course: Enhancing World Heritage Management Skills (Lebanon, 2019)

UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe

• Managing Cultural and Natural World Heritage Properties workshop (Romania, 2019)

Trentino School of Management

• Cultural heritage workshop for the Masters in World Natural Heritage Management (Italy, 2015-2017)

University of Seoul

• Impact Assessment for Heritage workshop (Republic of Korea, 2019)

World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO

• Impact Assessment for Heritage workshop (China, 2018)

World Heritage Site Managers’ Forum

• Capacity building events at the 41^st, 42^nd and 43^rd Sessions of the World Heritage Committee (Poland 2017, Bahrain 2018 and Azerbaijan 2019)

 Heritage sector literature to which we’ve contributed:

 Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary: History and Heritage (2020)

• Court, S., Rainer, L. Los Angeles: Getty Publications. [http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/books/herculaneum_and_house_of_bicentenary.html]

Documenting large archaeological sites, managing data, planning conservation and maintenance: the Herculaneum Conservation Project experience (2019)

• D’Andrea, A., Di Lillo, A., Laino, A., and Pesaresi, P.M. in The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W15, 359–364. [https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W15-359-2019]

Exploring community participation in the management of Italian archaeological sites (2019)

• Court, S. & Thompson, J. in Gürsu, I. (ed.) Public Archaeology: theoretical approaches and current practices. Ankara: British Institute at Ankara: 29-39. [mettiamo il capitolo direttamente sul sito]

From ‘Sustaining heritage’ to ‘Heritage sustaining broader societal wellbeing and benefits.’ An ICCROM perspective (2018)

• Thompson, J. & Wijesuriya, G. in Boccardi, G., Larsen, P. B. & Logan, W. (eds) World Heritage and Sustainable Development: New Directions in World Heritage Management. London: Routledge: 180-195. [https://www.routledge.com/World-Heritage-and-Sustainable-Development-New-Directions-in-World-Heritage/Larsen-Logan/p/book/9781138091405]

Protective Shelters for Archaeological Sites (2018)

• Aslan, Z., Court, S., Teutonico, J.M. & Thompson, J. (eds) Rome: Getty Foundation & British School at Rome. [https://www.getty.edu/conservation/our_projects/education/shelters/protective.html]

Managing Herculaneum in context: measuring benefits for people and places (2018)

• Court, S. D’Andrea, A., Del Duca, F., Pesaresi, P. & Thompson, J. in Comer, D. & Willems, A (eds) Feasible Management of Archaeological Heritage Sites Open to Tourism. Cham: Springer Press: 21-34. [https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319927558]

Conservation Planning for Excavated Mosaics at the Site of Bulla Regia, Tunisia: A Component of the MOSAIKON Initiative (2017)

• Roby, T., Friedman, L., D'Andrea, A. et al. (2017) in Teutonico, J.M., Friedman, L., Ben Abed, A. & Nardi, R. (eds) The Conservation and Presentation of Mosaics: At What Cost? Los Angeles: Getty Publications: 151-161. [https://shop.getty.edu/products/the-conservation-and-presentation-of-mosaics-at-what-cost-br-proceedings-of-the-12th-conference-of-the-international-committee-for-the-conservation-of-mosaics-sardinia-october-27-31-2014-978-1606065334#]

Gérer, mettre en valeur, vivre en harmonie avec l’héritage du passé: Italie-Tunisie – Gestire, valorizzare, convivere con l’eredità del passato: Italia-Tunisia (2014)

• Thompson, J. in A. Ferjaoui & M.L. Germanà (eds) Architecture domestique punique, hellénistique et romaine. Sauvegarde et mise en valeur. Palermo: ETS: 287-296. [mettiamo il capitolo direttamente sul sito]

Adieu a la restauration, bienvenue a l’entretien. Experiences de conservation durable a Herculaneum (2014)

• D’Andrea, A. & Pesaresi P. in A. Ferjaoui & M.L. Germanà (eds) Architecture domestique punique, hellenistique et romaine. Sauvegarde et mise en valeur. Palermo: ETS: 203-212. [mettiamo il capitolo direttamente sul sito]

People-Centred Approaches: Engaging Communities and Developing Capacities for Heritage   (2017)

• Wijesuriya, G., Thompson, J. & Court, S. in Chitty, G. (ed.) Heritage, Conservation and Communities: engagement, participation and capacity building. London: Routledge: 34-49. [https://www.routledge.com/Heritage-Conservation-and-Communities-Engagement-participation-and-capacity/Chitty/p/book/9781138339415]

Herculaneum: Joining Forces to Secure Heritage Benefits for the Ancient and the Modern Towns (2014)

• Biggi, C., D’Andrea, A., Pesaresi, P. (2014) in Heritage In Context: Conservation and Site Management within Natural, Urban and Social Frameworks. Deutsches Archäologisches Instituts Istanbul: 39-54. [mettiamo il capitolo direttamente sul sito]

Managing Cultural World Heritage. World Heritage Resource Manual (2013)

Wijesuriya, G., Thompson, J. & Young, C. Paris: UNESCO World Heritage Centre. [http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1078]

Conservation & management challenges in a public-private initiative for a large archaeological site (Herculaneum, Italy) (2008)

• Thompson, J. Conservation & Management of Archaeological Sites 4: 191-204. [mettiamo il capitolo direttamente sul sito]
• Reprinted in: Sullivan, S. & Mackay, R. (eds) (2012). Archaeological Sites: Conservation and Management. Los Angeles: Getty Publications: 690-709.

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San Francisco, CA 94107

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Email: info@inspiro-media.com