2024 Conference
SCHEDULE
TIEM @ 20: Assessing After 20 Years the Innovative Framework of the First Teamwork for Integrated Emergency Management for Asia Pacific Heritage Conservators, Organized by the Getty, ICOM, and ICCROM
3:20 – 3:50 p.m.
| Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 at The Getty CenterIn 2004, concerned representatives of the Getty Conservation Institute, the International Council of Museums (ICOM), and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) met and planned a pilot project inspired by ICOM’s Museum Emergency Program. Anticipating worsening climate crises and their impact on sites and moveable heritage, a program called the Teamwork for Integrated Emergency Management (TIEM) was developed with heritage professionals from either side of the Pacific, plus their European and North American counterparts. Innovative discussions and workshops were inspired by participants’ willingness to share experiences and practices, proving timely as extreme weather patterns began to affect the ways in which conservation strategies were designed in their home institutions. In between the first meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, and the second in Seoul, Korea, Hurricane Katrina happened, bringing forward our own anxieties in safeguarding collections and sites. This presentation assesses the 20 years since the TIEM course, appreciating climate issues that demand recalibrations of the preparedness framework and developing protocols to anticipate risks in dynamic situations and unstable conditions that we continually find ourselves in as we redefine the “new normal.”
