EPoCH 2026 · Futuro(s) do património / património(s) do futuro: no limiar da mudança

Book of Abstracts
 
  Wednesday | March 18   Thursday | March 19   Friday | March 20
9:00 Welcome and registration of participants 9:00 Registration of participants    
9:30
 
CONFERENCE OPENING
 
9:30
 
KEYNOTE
Cornelius Holtorf
Linnaeus University, Sweden
UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures
Heritage Futures: From Conservation to Change
 
   
10:00 KEYNOTE
Paulo Lourenço
University of Minho, Portugal
Heritage at Risk, Heritage in Transition: ICOMOS, Structural Safety, and Climate Adaptation
10:30 PAPER PRESENTATIONS IV
 
Cláudio Monteiro, Alexandra Figueiredo -PAW (Plasma‑Activated Water): the “new solvent” of the future?
 
Ana Quílez-Molina, Suset Barroso Solares, Óscar Fadón-Loro, Jorge Torre Ordás, Carlos Sanz-Velasco, Violeta Hurtado-García, Javier Pinto - Cellulose-modified poultices to address salt weathering problems in cultural Heritage
11:30 - 13:00 Conversation with
Rui Oliveira Lopes (Director of Museu das Convergências)
Roberta Altin (Department of Humanities, University of Trieste)
 
Exhibition Visit
Flux Objects, People and Places

by Rui Oliveira Lopes (Director of Museu das Convergências)
 
 
11:00 POSTER SESSION I | Coffee Break
 
Michela Gambino - Biofilms colonising outdoor stone monuments and climate change: learning outcomes from a year of the Assistens Kirkegård project.
 
Olivia Rybak-Karkosz - The use of new technologies for protection of the cultural heritage held in museums
 
Ernestina Engel, Lisiane Librelotto, Laia Haurie, Aleix Alva - Monitoring Climate Vulnerability of Cultural Heritage: Case Studies from Brazil and Spain
 
11:10 POSTER SESSION II | Coffee Break
 
Marluci Menezes, Matilde Cabrita, Mariana Santos, Sara Pires, Dora Roque, Sílvia Pereira - Tile Watch Digital Collaborative Platform: Engaging Diverse Stakeholders in Safeguarding Tile Heritage
 
Mariana Pinto, Thierry Aubry, Eduarda Vieira - “How can I protect my region’s heritage?”: Education for the conservation and its challenges in Alto Douro and Côa Valley Schools
 
Filipa Iglésias - Performative Silence as Cultural Practice: Reflections from the Luso-Japanese Encounter (16th century)
 
 
   
11:30 PAPER PRESENTATIONS I
 
Catarina Cortes Pereira, Eduarda Vieira, Karen Barbosa, Maria Aguiar, Martha Tavares - RECOVER-Heritage: from preparedness to recovery
 
Elisabetta Pozzetto - Communicating Heritage Future(s) at a Threshold of Time: The Friuli Earthquake, Circular Narratives, and the Transferability of a Post-Disaster Model
 
11:40 PAPER PRESENTATIONS V
 
Gabriel Vasconcelos, Maria Aguiar - Between Two Temporalities: The Medieval Painting of Saint John the Evangelist and the Ethical Challenge of Removing the Baroque Repainting
 
Leticia Crespillo, Patrícia Tonel Monteiro - From Fragment to Space: Digital Reconstruction and Possible Futures for the Mural Heritage of the Café Rialto (Porto)
 
 
 
   
12:30 Lunch Break 12:30 Lunch Break    
14:00 PAPER PRESENTATIONS II
 
Tomasz Grząślewicz - Breaking Through Oblivion.  How to Preserve the Hardly Told Narratives of the Jewish Ghetto in Sosnowiec-Środula
 
Laetitia Kozlova - Voice and Heritage? Crossed perspectives as preliminary research
 
Veronika Zvirble, Jaroslav Daveiko - Ephemeral signs: land and art flows of cultural memory on the threshold of heritage future(s)
 
Alyne Fernanda Reis, Henrique Antunes Cunha Junior - Cultural Heritage and the Patrimonialization of Black Territories
 
Fátima Lambert - APAGADAS: Bio-mapping women@cartoteca ‘geoartística’ e ‘chronoreferenciada’
 
14:00 PAPER PRESENTATIONS VI
 
Carolina Sousa - When the museum no longer exists: Digital archival conservation as a future heritage practice
 
Kadri Kallast - Heritage management strategies for future communities
  
Mariana Pinto, Fernando Carrera-Ramírez, Thierry Aubry, Eduarda Vieira - New challenges for the conservation of the Côa Valley Open-air Rock Art: the development and implementation of a conservation plan
 
Dunja Demirović Bajrami - From extractive practices to regenerative futures: reframing PoTaRCH heritage in Europe´s sustainable transition

Hok Nang Tam -Mapping the Aesthetic Imaginaries through the Atmosphere of Extractive Zones in Lausitz of Germany
   
15:40 Coffee break & Exhibition Opening: Garden of the (In)Visibles T4EU 15:40 Coffee break
 
   
16:10 - 17:10 PAPER PRESENTATIONS III
 
Nuno Moreira - Artificial Intelligence and Preventive Conservation: practical notes on automation, predictive analysis and strategic decision-making 
 
Pedro de Andrade - The Critical/Ethical Artificial Intelligence turn on urban arts heritage: sociological reflections and A.I. art on urban cultural heritage destruction via the war on Ukraine
 
José Guilherme Abreu - The controversial revival of a colonialist monument in an Oporto’s historic square
 
16:10 - 17:10 PAPER PRESENTATIONS VII
 
Sílvia Pereira, Hugo Benavente, Mariana Santos, Liane Lin, Sara Pires, Marluci Menezes, Gonçalo Jesus, António Antunes, Dora Roque, Lurdes Esteves, Jose Saporiti Machado, Anabela Oliveira - Artificial Intelligence Applied to Safeguarding Historic Tiles: The AI4Az Project and TileWatch platform
 
Catarina Cortes Pereira - Digital Invisibility: Can Digitization Include “Unauthorised” Voices? Expanding the Conservator-Restorer’s Role