Holding on the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage
Holding on the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage
About the Theme
Koç University Libraries (Suna Kıraç Library and branch libraries AKMED, ANAMED and VEKAM) continued their project with the theme of Treasury Gallery 5: “Holding on the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage”, which was initiated to increase the visibility of their collections, to address informative and interesting topics and to present them online to researchers.
This theme focused on preserving architectural structures, works of art, museum objects, and archive documents. Within the scope of the theme, activities were held to raise social awareness about the preservation of cultural heritage assets through podcasts, speeches, and social media posts, as well as the promotion of print, digital, and rare resources in Koç University Libraries.
Project Team
- Burak Başaranlar (Suna Kıraç Library)
- Mustafa Ergül (Suna Kıraç Library)
- Nathalie Defne Gier (Suna Kıraç Library)
Talk Series
Talk Series – 1
Holding on the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage: Architecture (21 Nisan 2022)
Talk Series – 2
Holding on the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage – Museums (20 Mayıs 2022)
Podcast
- Smuggling of Cultural Assets and Return Processes – Levent Tökün (Click to listen)
Social Media Posts
Holding on the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage Theme Introduction (April 4, 2022)
From April to June 2022, the theme will focus on the ways to conserve cultural heritage assets, including architecture, art & museum objects, and archival documents. The theme aims to raise public awareness about protecting cultural heritage assets by featuring selected sources in Koç University Libraries and through various activities, including podcasts, panels, workshops, and social media posts.
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Cahide Tamer Collection (April 6, 2022) – (The post language is Turkish)
You can access Cahide Tamer’s (1915-2005) collection, which includes different types of archival materials such as documents, correspondence, photographs, drawings, and plans related to the restoration projects she took part in during her career spanning the years 1943-1974, on the Koç University Suna Kıraç Library Digital Collections page.
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Holding on the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage: Architecture (April 12, 2022) – (The post language is Turkish)
“…20. Even pre-computer drawings made at the beginning of the century still allow archeology, architectural evaluations, and the opportunity to talk about that lost structure/object. In that respect, drawings that help imagine the original state of an architecture bear the responsibility of being accurate.”
Hayalet Yapılar, “Gözden Irak Yapılar”, Turgut Saner, PATTU, 2010
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Holding on the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage: Architecture – Talk Series – 1 (April 14, 2022) – (The post language is Turkish)
This session, within the scope of Koç University Libraries Treasury series 5th theme, “Holding on to the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage” talk series, focuses on the issue of architecture in cultural heritage. Mesut Diler will attend the session where 2 valuable speakers will take part: “Sustainable Architectural Heritage: Can Cultural Heritage Protect Us?” and Burak Dolu will participate with their presentation titled “This is Not the Real Restoration”. Barış Altan will moderate the session.
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Holding on the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage (April 27, 2022)
“Our philosophy of conservation is based upon resolving a simple dichotomy. The life of places and of buildings is conditioned largely by two contrasting human motives.”
Living Buildings: Architectural Conservation: Philosophy, Principle and Practice, “Ten Degrees of Intervention”, Donald Insall, images publishing, 2008.
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Holding on the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage: Museums – Talk Series – 2 (May 14, 2022) – (The post language is Turkish)
This session, within the Koç University Libraries Treasury series 5th theme, “Holding on to the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage” talk series, focuses on museums in cultural heritage. Two valuable speakers, Nevra Ertürk and Fatma Sezin Doğruer, will attend the session with their presentations titled “Storage Management in Museums” and “Historical Development of Museum Exhibitions and Current Approaches.” Ayça Bayrak Uluğ will moderate the session.
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Holding on to the Future: Protecting Cultural Heritage: Podcast (June 3, 2022) – (The post language is Turkish)
We hosted Levent Tökün in our podcast on the 5th theme of the Treasure Series, which we carry out as Koç University Libraries, “Holding on to the Future in Cultural Heritage.” We talked to him about the smuggling and return processes of cultural assets. This conversation discussed the causes of cultural asset smuggling, the history of cultural asset return, current methods, and many interesting examples. An enjoyable episode about the everyday adventures of cultural beings awaits you.
You can access the detailed version of the post here.