Price: £25.00
Platform: Zoom
More information: https://academicprojects.co.uk/courses/packing-art-moving-towards-sustainability/
There will be a 55min presentation followed by 15min of discussion.
The seminar will offer an overview of an 8-step approach to packing for transport and storage. The first four steps concern awareness of: the object(s) to be handled; the plan to transfer the object from A to B; possible adaptations to either the object (condition) or our plans and what is actually needed to protect a particular object on a particular route. (Step 1. Risk assessment of the object, Step 2. Risk Assessment of the route, Step 3. Possible Improvements concerning object and/or route, Step 4. Defining the protection required).
Step 5 is about the actual packing design itself and possible alternatives for the most frequently used products and methods. Steps 6 and 7 – Step 6. (Transport and couriering) and Step 7. (Unpacking, installation and ‘use’) – are crucial in terms of gathering data about the trip itself. Step 8. Evaluation, is where we learn from our experience and, if necessary, adapt and improve our methods for the future.
The pros and cons of more sustainable alternatives will be considered and case studies shown of possible changes of routine, materials and methods to move toward saving costs and the environment.
Jaap van der Burg has more than 50 years’ experience in the field of what we now call Preventive Conservation. He has worked in and for small private museums, national museums, archives, libraries and private companies. He has been involved in more than 5000 projects from the development of packing for: bodies found in peat bogs; modern art pieces and mediaeval shrines to moving a collection of 30 million items, saving 38.000 kg of archives after a flood,; conserving trains; risk assessment of masterpieces in churches, etc. etc.
He has always been keen to share his experiences in the hope that others might benefit from the ‘mistakes’ he has made. While always having had an eye on the most economic ways of working, the present growing awareness of the need for sustainability and the saving of energy makes his approach all the more relevant.
