The International Committee
for the Conservation of the
Industrial Heritage
Template for Reports from National Groups
PREAMBLE
TICCIH is an organisation whose members come from all over the world and include historians,
conservators, museum curators, researchers, students, teachers, heritage professionals and anyone
with an interest in the development of industry and industrial society and its preservation.
Our aim is to be a voice for industrial heritage arguing for the preservation, conservation, investigation,
documentation, research and interpretation of our industrial heritage.
National groups meet and organise around industrial heritage issues. Each National group nominates
or elects a National Representative to act on behalf of their country at each triennial TICCIH Congress
and to elect the international leadership. The National Representative should also take responsibility
for generating and submitting the National Report to be published at each Congress, covering
activities and developments occurring over the three year interval between Congresses, in this case
2009-2012.
The purpose of the National reports on the state of industrial heritage is to document how far we have
come in meeting the aims of TICCIH since our last Congress. The reports thus serve an important
benchmarking role and provide some examples for others. It is anticipated that the National reports
will be published in hard copy form and also put on the TICCIH Website.
In anticipation of the 2012 Congress in Taiwan we offer a simple pro-forma template in order to help
those preparing the reports – as well as those editing and preparing them for publication. This is not to
limit either content or structure, but is merely offered to stimulate thinking about the task at hand. And
it is not intended to generate redundant information, simply to provide some structure for a reader who
might be encountering material about each Nation’s industrial heritage for the first time.
Essential topics for the National report are set out below with some possible suggestions for further
discussion and elaboration in brackets below the heading. It is suggested that a report of between
2000 and 5000 words would cover the essential issues, with 1-5 images for illustration.
DEADLINE
The National reports need to be submitted to Board Member Iain Stuart by June 30, 2012 in order for
them to be available to Congress participants. Stuart’s email address is iain_stuart@optusnet.com.au,
postal address is JCIS Consultants, P.O. Box 2397, Burwood North, NSW 2137, Australia.
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1
INTRODUCTION
(Briefly outline the National group? Who is involved? Who prepared the report? Does the group have
any formal ties with other groups, e.g. ICOMOS?)
2
CHARACTER OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
(Briefly outline the key characteristics of industrial heritage in your area. Do these characteristics pose
any particular challenges for identifying, protecting and managing industrial heritage in your area?)
3
PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
(Within each National area there will be legislative controls for the protection of industrial heritage and
agencies established to protect heritage. The legislation and management structures relating to the
protection of industrial heritage should be briefly outlined and any issues – e.g. no protection for
heritage; odd definitions, etc. – should be highlighted.)
4
PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
(How is the identification, protection and management of industrial heritage promoted? Are there
effective strategies? Does the group use Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook or Flickr to promote
industrial heritage? What are the important sources of funding to support industrial heritage
conservation?)
5
ADVOCACY
(What are the main issues in the protection and management of industrial heritage? Who advocates
on behalf of industrial heritage? Have they had, and do they need TICCIH’s support?)
6
RECENT ACTIVITIES IN INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
(Are there any current issues that the National group would wish to highlight? Have there been any
changes in heritage legislation or regulatory structures? Have there been any notable successes or
failures in conservation efforts, any exceptional losses to the stock of heritage resources or particular
successes in preservation and interpretation? Have there been any particular successes in the realm
of industrial heritage tourism that might appeal to either a national or an international market?)
7
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
(How are practitioners in the area of industrial heritage trained? Are there gaps or skills that are
needed to be filled? Is there a program for continuous professional development for practitioners?)
8
PUBLICATIONS
(Have there been any interesting or relevant publications in the field of industrial heritage? We are not
looking for a “laundry list” of everything published but rather we are looking for interesting, important
and exciting publications in whatever form or media.)
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