What is an

Artefact?

The conservation lab covers a wide range of artifacts, encompassing both material and immaterial heritage. These include stories, techniques, buildings and objects. Our approach to artefact considers its affiliations with human, non- human and spiritual entities; whilst acknowledging its agency in the natural ecology and landscape and

What is

Knowledge?

Modes of knowledge production refer to the various methods, approaches, and systems through which knowledge about the artefact or site is generated and validated within a particular field or community. Our approach recognizes tacit, observational, experimental, empirical, and the experiential as valuable modes of knowledge production in our conservation endeavors.

Our

Conservation

Practice?

We work collaboratively with local
communities in the entire process of
thinking and practicing conservation.
This includes choosing artefacts
and determining conservation methods,
encompassing documentation,
condition assessment, preservation,
and upkeep. Our approach involves finding synergies between scientific and local conservation techniques; we learn from each other in terms of how to read, understand and engage with the materials and assets and how to assess risks, decay and deterioration.