(IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S)
Abstract
Treatment of derelict pieces of heritage is a social quandary and appreciation for them comes in the late 20th century. Córdoba de la Nueva Andalucía [Argentina] is a World Heritage environment. The 17th century Jesuit Block and six establishments conformed a unique social experiment [cfr. UNESCO]. Jesuit estancias are tangible monuments, with intangible components. San Ignacio de Calamuchita, the largest and most productive religious estate, was an expression of the former. But buildings were looted and became an intangible asset. The research focuses on the potential re-enactment of this valuable heritage. We seek positive action to raise it to a tangible condition. Graphically digitising it, we explore mechanisms for recovery, management, and re-activation, expounding heritage values. The 1725 establishment is analysed from historiographic documentation. The research works from planimetry and elaborates on 3D graphics [HBIM] to understand components and relationships. Territorial reviews [GIS] and intangible backgrounds are also incorporated. The 1767 estrangement cancelled Jesuit operations in Spain, including Neo-Andalusian estates. Key Jesuit assets suddenly became civil stock and 19th century rebellions added confusion. For 80 years society, with its heritage, was disorientated. Legal frameworks were altered. Spanish heritage was considered undesirable. Whilst private ownership helped, San Ignacio no longer pursued spiritual endeavours. It turned into a for-profit enterprise. Total degradation followed in 1980, thus becoming «intangible». San Ignacio then divorced from its sister estancias. With scientific research and digital technology, the estate could reach deeper dimensions, and re-integrate to the [tangible] network. Tangible understanding through the senses is a natural human approach. Speculative intellectual exercises are required to apprehend intangible heritage. Up-to-date digital technology – GIS and HBIM platforms – can restructure intangible spaces and immaterial heritage, improving its understanding in contemporary minds. Territorial planning, interpretation settings, information tools and legal protection would assist to overcome shortfalls in the study asset.
Gustavo-Adolfo Saborido-Forster: Architect, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Master of architecture and historic heritage and PhD candidate in architecture, University of Seville. Scientific contribution in the heritage field of Jesuit settlements and architecture in Europe and America, highlighting the master’s work on Jesuit Haciendas of Andalusia and New Andalusia. Author of papers and articles including the XI Congress of the History of Construction, Soria, 2019; the VIII International Symposium on Research in Architecture, National University of Colombia, 2020; the I Knowledge Nodes Congress, Seville, Mexico and Zaragoza, 2020; the XIX International Congress of Architectural Graphic Expression, Polytechnic University of Cartagena. 2022; and the II Knowledge Nodes Congress, Seville, Mexico and Zaragoza, 2021, with research related to world Jesuit heritage. Territorial scientific investigations with GIS technology and heritage research with HBIM platforms. Extensive professional experience in various fields of architecture, including interventions and heritage studies in America and the Asia-Pacific. Participation in training activities at schools of architecture in the South Pacific, and accreditation of study programs based on professional practice. Support programs for architecture students in degree programs. Comparative studies of academic study programs in various schools of architecture around the world.
Eduardo Mosquera-Adell: Doctor Architect. University Professor since 1999 at the History, Theory and Architectural Composition Department of the University of Seville. Co-founder and director of MARPH since 1995, an official specialisation master’s programme in Architecture and Historic Heritage, which collaborates with heritage institutions such as IAPH, the Alcazar or the Alhambra. Co-founder of the research group HUM-700 ‘Heritage and Urban and Territorial Development in Andalusia’, focused in urban planning preservation, having conducted several researches, urban plans and professional advisory on classed monuments, historic centres and landscapes. Permanently collaborating with several Master’s and Doctorate programmes, has supervised 28 doctoral thesis. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Alcazar and Town Hall of Seville and a member of the Partal Academy (of scientists and technicians in monumental restoration). He has been a member of the Andalusian Commission of Movable Cultural Assets (Consejería de Cultura, Junta de Andalucía), member of the International Committee of the Mediterranean Landscape Prize and the jury of the Andrés de Vandelvira Heritage Prize. Speaker and editor in charge of the Research Program of the Second General Plan of Cultural Assets of Andalusia. Member of international congress committees and editorial committees of seven international journals.
Mercedes Ponce-Ortiz de Insagurbe: Associate Professor at the University of Seville. Scientific contribution oriented towards basic fundamental research on sources, materials and construction technologies applied to construction, with special emphasis on the heritage issue and its rehabilitation or obsolescence, with specific contributions in applied research, supported by the Sath Sustainability research group in Architecture, Technology and Heritage: Materiality and Construction Systems. Member of the Advisory Council of the CSIC Magazine Informes de la Construcción and author of numerous publications in books and magazines, the publication of the book Construir el Siglo XX with Informes de la Construcción, Index of Indexes and the direction of research works in the master’s degree stands out. In Architecture and Historical Heritage of the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage of the Junta de Andalucía, and in the Master of Innovation in Architecture, Technology and Design of the University of Seville.