Digital knowledge
for heritage, conservation and resilience

What you will learn:

• Analyze the origins and evolution of the concept of cultural heritage.
• Understand protection and enhancement at national and international levels.
• Explore tools to preserve, promote, and integrate heritage into everyday life.
• Address conservation challenges in dialogue with contemporary creativity.
• Use research and digital technologies to make heritage accessible and alive.

Who is it for: Students, professionals, and enthusiasts who want to understand why cultural heritage matters today. No prior knowledge required.

What you will learn:

• Apply international standards and FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
• Design sustainable, well-documented 3D digitization workflows.
• Define clear objectives, write specifications, and manage budgets.
• Evaluate AI and Digital Twins in heritage contexts.
• Ensure long-term accessibility and meaningful reuse of digital resources.

Who is it for: Professionals in museums, archives, public institutions, research centers, and cultural organizations—directors, curators, technicians, digital leads, and innovators.

What you will learn:

• Understand historic gardens as dynamic cultural landscapes.
• Apply international guidelines to long-term conservation planning.
• Document sites with photogrammetry, laser scanning, and GIS.
• Model visible and lost elements with advanced 3D technologies.
• Use AI for vegetation analysis and semantic segmentation.
• Implement participatory, data-driven management with GIS/WebGIS.
• Assess risks and plan sustainable, informed responses.

Who is it for: Scholars, heritage professionals, landscape architects, site managers, and students seeking a contemporary approach to historic gardens.

What you will learn:

• How to assess risk factors and select suitable materials.
• Treatments for biological and environmental decay.
• The use of enzymatic blends, essential oils, and nanosystems with low environmental impact.
• Hands-on techniques for both fieldwork and lab practice.
• High-precision 2D/3D documentation to track long-term effectiveness.
• Case studies on fountains, monuments, sculptures, and architectural elements, including peperino, a grey volcanic rock typical of central Italy.

Who is it for: This course is designed for conservators, technicians, researchers, students, and heritage professionals seeking to update their skills in sustainable methods, digital technologies, and emerging trends.

What you will learn:

• Recognize wood as a living record: read its species, working methods, and context over time.
• Distinguish physical, chemical, and morphological features; interpret signs of imbalance and decay.
• Identify species and date wood using dendrochronology and radiocarbon techniques.
• Use diagnostics—electron microscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and thermo-chemical analysis—to study materials, treatments, and conditions.
• Leverage big data and simulation to predict degradation and guide decisions.
• Build a critical, data-driven approach that balances scientific method with conservation sensitivity.

Who is it for: Observing and understanding wood is like reading a story inscribed in matter. Join us to bring value to a material that preserves the memory of time and of the environments that shaped it. Stay updated with CHEDARacademy for resources, tools, and ideas to sustain your practice.

What you will learn:

• Observe cultural heritage with a critical, scientific eye.
• Design suitable interventions based on accurate documentation and material diagnostics.
• Apply monitoring tools and risk-assessment methods essential to preventive conservation.
• Integrate documentation: analysis, monitoring, risk evaluation into a single, coherent workflow.
• Use data analysis and interpretation to define effective, sustainable conservation strategies

Who is it for: This course is designed for conservators, restorers, museum curators, conservation scientists, heritage-protection practitioners, and for students and professionals who wish to update their skills. The methods and tools presented can be adapted to different contexts, museum collections, lab finds, archaeological sites, and monumental complexes, offering a shared foundation for a sustainable approach to conservation in the face of everyday challenges, increasingly aggravated by climate change.

What you will learn:

• Investigate and document tangible heritage through systematic assessment.
• Catalogue objects and organize complex datasets for analysis and interpretation.
• Create cultural maps and digital landscapes using integrated methodologies.
• Reconstruct architectures and contexts by combining stratified archaeological, environmental, and historical data.
• Manage databases and digital workflows for research, conservation, and public engagement.
• Transform heterogeneous data into meaningful narratives and visualizations.
• Engage with real case studies from the urban and rural landscapes of ancient Rome and Lazio.

Who is it for: This course is designed for students, researchers, archaeologists, museum professionals, public officials, and all those working—or wishing to work—in the conservation, management, and communication of cultural heritage. It provides concrete tools to understand and explain complex contexts at the intersection of the material and immaterial, the visible and the invisible, memory and the future.