EYCH 2018: Preserve, Use and Develop – International conference on ecclesiastical heritage and its future challenges
Organisers: Church of Sweden, Churches Conservation Trust (UK), ICOMOS Sweden, ICOMOS ISC PRERICO, Future for Religious Heritage (FRH, Belgium).
The conference will present projects and methods which aim at finding extended use for churches as sustainable resources for local communities and parishes. Several keynote speeches will give theological, societal and heritage perspectives on church buildings and cultural history in a European context. During the conference, which features presentations of various case studies from Sweden and beyond, the Diocese of Lund’s method for making use of ecclesiastical cultural heritage will be launched. The conference dinner and opening of an innovative art experience will take place at the Odarslöv Church, which for years was a closed and decaying rural church, today newly renovated and situated next to the development site for The European Spallation Source (ESS), one of the Europe’s largest science and technology infrastructure projects. This development opens for many possible new uses for a church which recently was under the threat to be demolished.
Dates/times: Wednesday 25 April 2018 (09.30) – Thursday 26 April (16.00).
Location (Country, town, address): Sweden, Lund, Conference venue: Kulturen, Tegnérsplatsen 6, 223 50 Lund.
Official contact for further information: Henrik Lindblad: henrik.lindblad@svenskakyrkan.se
Official website: https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/lundsstift/pud
Attachments (poster / leaflet): Conference Postcard