This workshop brings together experts from the sectors of cultural heritage preservation, risk management, and sustainability to examine the contemporary risk profile of heritage organisations and strategies to address it.
The new challenges that archives face today concern their relationship with space and the environment, a balance that is increasingly fragile and exposed to risk: floods, fires, and climate change are reshaping the risk profile of documentary heritage.
Risk management and sustainability in archives have therefore become central and urgent issues to address. The one-and-a-half-day workshop, hosted by the Historical Archives of the European Union within the framework of the EU-funded project SAGA – Sustainable Archives and Greener Approaches, aims to explore these challenges from multiple perspectives. It combines theoretical reflections on the meaning of archives today and their role within an anthropogenic environment with discussions on policies and practical approaches to sustainability and risk management: what we can learn from past disasters such as floods, how to assess microbial risk, how greening and automation can help save space, land, and energy, and how to train communities and volunteers for emergency response.
The programme features colleagues from the Archivio di Stato di Firenze, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), the Politecnico di Milano and the Cittadella degli Archivi di Milano, MTU’s Clean Technology Centre, Mazzini Lab, and others, with sessions designed to deliver actionable tools for safer and more sustainable archives.
Join us to learn, connect, and co-create solutions that protect our documentary heritage while reducing our environmental footprint. Register now to secure your place.
The Historical Archives thanks the Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana for their support in disseminating this event.
Photo: UNESCO / Dominique Roger, Manuscripts from the National Library, Florence, Italy, being washed and dried in the boiler room of Florence railway station after the November 1966 floods. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
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