Sixth Regional Conference on Integrative Protection

Venue: Banjaluka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Period: Nov. 4, 2011

The Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural – Historical and Natural Heritage of the Republic of Srpska, Banjaluka invites interested parties to participate in the Sixth Regional Conference on Integrative Protection that will be held in November this year, organized by the Institute and sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska. Every use of heritage sets certain demands and obligations, and does not free us of responsibility for its preservation. Creative relations towards building of the past will provide it a new life, active role and continuity in spiritual development.

Heritage revitalization and active protection procedure is a process of high complexity and includes great responsibility. Its scope ranges from restoration activities, add-ons, rearrangement of the existing valuable structures, to the interpolation of new ones. Which are adequate ways to connect old and new in integral cultural-historical heritage, and to integrate the built and the natural elements in protected natural areas? 

The Sixth conference on integrative protection has been planned as a multi-disciplinary gathering, where about 20 up-to-date works on these problems will be presented, with the authors both local and from the countries in the region.
 
The main sub-topics of this year’s conference are: 
1.     Criteria for selection of appropriate methods in integration of old and new
2.     Contemporary restoration principles and their application
3.     Integration of old and new in cultural–historical areas
4.     Integration of old and new on a cultural–historical building
5.     Integration of old and new at archaeological sites
6.     New building interventions in protected natural areas

The conference is free and open to the public. The language of the conference will be the official languages of the Republika Srpska.

The Republic Institute for Protection of Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage
Jelena Savić
Vuka Karadžića 4/VI,
78 000 Banja Luka Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
tel.: 00387.51.247.547
e-mail: 6konferencija@gmail.com