Certificate Program for Professionals: Wooden Heritage Conservation (Batch 1) - Booklet
Center for Heritage Conservation (CHC) at CEPT Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) and CEPT Professional Programs (CPP) conducted a 3-day certificate program on ‘Wooden Heritage Conservation’ from 19th to 21st January 2024. This booklet, compiled in 2024 by CHC, CRDF is a session-wise overview of the activities in the program.
India has a vast repository of wooden built heritage across varied geographic regions. This certificate program introduced its participants to conservation approaches for wooden heritage that form integral and important cultural components of historic built environments.
The program was conducted at CEPT University campus in Ahmedabad and at CEPT Conservation Site School at Kalidas Jethabhai House and Mukhi Delu in Dharmaj, Gujarat. The program was designed for participants to have hands-on engagement with techniques of wooden conservation supplemented with theoretical sessions by experts and practitioners. The content of the program was designed for professionals, teachers and researchers of architectural conservation, heritage management, architecture, design, civil and structural engineering, or any other field allied to built-environment studies and heritage studies. The program tutors were: Nigar Shaikh, Prof. Jigna Desai, Ashna Patel and Saatvika Pancholi. Guest experts of the program were: Fulchand Suthar, Mehul Shah, Khushi Shah and Dr. Benny Kuriakose. The tutors were supported by teaching associate Komal Gandhi.
The program was supported with material from CHC’s ongoing work for the Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme (EWAP) Grant, hosted by Oxford Brookes University. On-site support was provided by Avichal Heritage Foundation, Kalidas Jethabhai House, Dharmaj and Audrey Alvares. The program was developed and curated by CHC, CRDF in consultation with CPP. The program content curators were: Prof. Jigna Desai, Jayashree Bardhan, Nigar Shaikh and Ashna Patel.
This booklet is available here as an educational resource.
Wooden Heritage Conservation (Batch 1) Booklet