ISCI – International Summer Course On Imogiri Saujana Heritage

ISCI, stands for International Summer Course on Imogiri Saujana Heritage, is a summer course program held by Center for Heritage Conservation, Department of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada. The theme for ISCI 2016 is “Participatory Planning and Design for Batik Eco-Museum”. This summer course for students from Universitas Gadjah Mada as well as other universities in Indonesia and foreign universities aims to give scientific and practical response to Imogiri cultural landscape conversation.This activity is also expected to give inputs for policies, planning, and design guidelines of Imogiri batik eco-museum, knowledge, and experience to the participants, and of course tighten the collaboration among universities.

Objectives

• To give participants a comprehension on conservation and management of Imogiri saujana heritage, including its social and cultural systems, physical and environmental settings, traditional building and village architecture, and batik activity system.
• To give participants knowledge and understanding about a living museum, its role in Imogiri cultural landscape heritage conservation, and the position of the Imogiri area in the world.
• To enhance participant skill in implementing concepts, methods, conservation process and landscape management in the actual case, including inventory, documentation, analysis, and formulation of conservation guidelines on local batik culture.
• To give participants experience directly in the field to do planning and design of Imogiri area as a living museum.

Time and Venue

The program is organized for 14 days within 6th-19th October 2016 in the City of Yogyakarta and Imogiri Village, in the same time with Jogja International Batik Biennale 2016 (12th-16th October 2016).

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