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The Faro Convention of the COE highlights the human centered theory in relation to the cultural heritage that he must pass on to future generations. Cultural heritage is a set of resources that contributes to the quality of life, social development, and sustainability of environmental programs. Each individual is responsible individually and as a community for cultural heritage and participates in its protection and enhancement. In this spirit, the university project OBVIA and extramann network has proceeded to create audience development and territorial networks for the MANN to achieve urban regeneration. The method identified through the OBVIA project can be replicated as a practice tested and evaluated in terms of social and economic impact.

The paper aims to examine the transformative role of art and artists, today and in the future. We have chosen as a starting point the work of a remarkable Portuguese sculptor at the leading edge: Rui Chafes, a challenger of new aesthetic paths. Chafes is a conceptual sculptor of iron and fire who seeks and aspires to abstractionism, as a novel language and a novel vision of the world. The artist thinks his work deeply, regularly publishing texts about his work and its connections with art, beauty and life. From his imaginary artistic biography, Between Heaven and Earth, a bit like Vasari’s The Lives, we will begin by presenting the sculptor’s aesthetic and plastic universe. Then we will consider the way his unique identity path turns out to be inspiring and fulfilling. This imaginary character, born in Germany in the 13th century, absorbed the spiritual medieval gothic shapes and the sense of nature, the sublime and the absolute spirit, peculiar to German Romanticism. From his long experience we highlight learning the value of life, and the love for here and now, both rooted in a density of experiences and memories; memories, places and times which interact and dialogue with his sculptures — works which cralise the spaces they inhabit as if they had always been part of them. For Rui Chafes the future of humankind depends on our ability to incorporate memory and the past into the present, and in this sense his project is a very original and promising alliance between tradition and modernity.

This proposal is a continuation of the HG-213 and HG-172 BAG pexperiments, a new access route to the ESRF structural analysis capacities for the Heritage Science community. The upgrade to the ESRF-EBS was the triggering element to propose a single block allocation group (BAG). Two complementary analytical configurations are used in the BAG: High angular resolution XRD (ID22) and High lateral resolution XRD (ID13). The combination of these two beamlines generates precious clues on the origin, processing and degradation of historical materials. By relying on the new analytical capacities of the EBS combined with optimized access route, sample preparation procedures and processing pipelines, the Heritage BAG has proven to be a very efficient way to increase the output of the Cultural Heritage community, to reinforce a scientific network of expert users structured around the ESRF, and to initiate new European collaborations in Heritage Science.

Black-to-brown glazed ceramics manufactured during the Song Dynasty have become a hot topic since the discovery of ε‑Fe2O3 at their surface. This oxide has interesting magnetic properties, so a better understanding of the chemistry leading to its growth in such ceramics is an important asset for modern applications. In addition, their high cultural importance, in particular in Japan and China, is another key reason that drives this study of their manufacturing process. Here, we propose a unique combination of Mössbauer spectroscopy (ID14) and Fe Kα edge µ-XANES (ID21/ ID24) to study Fe speciation and distribution in fragments of historical Song ceramics.