Master in Conservation* of Documentary Heritage
*Conservation: Actions taken to safeguard cultural heritage, respecting their values and meanings, and ensuring their access and enjoyment for present and future generations. (Lineamientos generales, CNPC, 2014)
This master intends to explore and discuss, through a transdiscipinary approach, the expertise and practice in conservation of documentary heritage, understanding archives and collections as complex systems of materials, techniques, discourses, meanings and social practices. Through research-intervention projects, this program aims to execute strategies of mediation among the material, social, institutional, political and cultural needs that surround the documentary heritage, to modify in a better way the conditions where these are safeguarded and "unfold". The investigations from students and researchers professors consider different issues such as configuring archives, contributing to the construction of memory, tracing emergency and prevention plans, managing programs of social linkage, etc. OBJECTIVES
• Articulate theoretical and practical knowledge that allow to rethink, problematize and re-conceptualize notions within the conservation field, through transdisciplinary research and academic training.
• Explore, deepen, inquire, analyze and discuss the knowledge and practice that lead to the preservation, valuation, resignification, organization, assembly, reproduction and dissemination of certain documentary archives.
• Build knowledge that contributes to the development of the field of conservation of documentary archives. Duration
Two years (four semesters)
Classroom-based study: evenings,
Tuesday and Thursday
Admission Profile
• Professionals whose tasks and interests are linked to the use and dissemination, configuration, research, management, and preservation of documentary heritage, among other related aspects.
• Therefore they can be restorers, historians, communicologists, archivists, educators, artists, political scientists, librarians, curators, imaging professionals, social scientists, cultural managers, conservators and philosophers, among other professionals
Graduate profile
• Research skills and professionalism to make proposals for conservation of documentary heritage with ethical and political sense.
• Dominate problems related to the material and technical analysis of the objects that shapes documentary collections, recognizing their manufacture and transformation over time through technical, conceptual and methodological basis, for the preservation of cultural heritage.
• Able to formulate and enforce regulations, standards, declarations, access and mediation policies of the documentary heritage, that give way to different experiences of linkage of the documentary heritage with the community.
• Conceptualize archives and collections not only from the documents that can be subjected to archival treatments, but also from the uses, handling and management of memory and testimony.
• Reconstruct senses of identity and social imaginaries from the configuration and mediation strategies of documentary heritage on different types of social contexts.
• Know how to work with the physical environment of the collections and archives (the space-content- continent relationship) considering elements like: the characteristics of the building, the environmental agents, the storage, maintenance and security systems of the documents, as well as disaster prevention, mounting and installation, exhibition and preservation of the documentary objects.
• Dominate conceptual, methodological and technical resources to envisage proposals from the multiple tensions that are produced in the configuration of the documentary heritage, deconstructing the typical polarities: Original / copy, analogue / digital, materiality / virtually, permanent / replaceable, conservation / restoration, memory / oblivion, witness / interpreter, fiction / veracity, art/ document.
• Identify and manage strategic relations within the institutions and the interests of accessibility to operate management plans in order to preserve the multiple resources of documental items.
• Develop processes of image creation, management, dissemination and reception linking them to the social areas that operate from different fields of expertise, such as image theories, the aesthetic, art, politics, sociology, pedagogy, information and communication technologies, among others.
