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- Källbom, Arja, 1969, et al.
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Maintenance of Painted Steel-sheet Roofs on Historical Buildings in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Architectural Heritage. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1558-3058 .- 1558-3066. ; 16:4, s. 538-552
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This work presents a model and tools with which stakeholders and others involved in the conservation and maintenance process to make informed, evidence-based decisions for the treatment of painted steel-sheet roofs on historical buildings. The aim is to bridge the communication gap between research and practice and to provide useful tools for balancing technical, economic, environmental and historical values. The presented research is based on research and field experiences from practice in Sweden, and focuses on the different stages of building conservation: anamnesis, diagnosis, therapy and control/monitoring. The results are exemplified by systematic descriptions of material characteristics, anticorrosive treatment procedures and quality control checkpoints. A material and method matrix is proposed that can be used in diagnosis, planning and documentation of general procedures, or which can be refined for specific object procedures. It could be used for comparing cases, for suggesting areas of further work or for setting minimum levels for documentation. The matrix can be connected to different quality standards of conservation. It may favour the communication and systematic assessment of working procedures for different substrates, and the further development of best practices.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969, et al.
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14 dialogseminarier från Jokkmokk till Helsingborg : 14 dialogue seminars on traditional craft skills - from Jokkmokk to Helsingborg
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- med syftet att informera om Hantverkslaboratoriet, att bjuda in till diskussion om verksamhetens utformning, samt att samla in förslag på projekt och samarbeten. Aktörer från landets 21 län har inbjudits till 14 platser, från Jokkmokk i norr till Helsingborg i söder. Utbildningsinstitutioner, länsstyrelsernas kultur och naturvårdsenheter, hemslöjdskonsulenterna, byggnadsvårdscentran, besöksträdgårdar, länsmuseerna, stiften m.fl. har medverkat. Totalt har dialogseminarierna samlat 320 personer. De huvudsakliga frågeteman som behandlats i gruppdiskussionerna är 1. Kunskapssituationen för traditionella hantverkskunskaper, 2. Materialförsörjningen inom kulturmiljövården, 3. Förslag på projekt, och 4. Nätverk och samarbete.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969, et al.
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A virtual diorama: Methodologising the digital artefact in cultural heritage research
- 2019
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Ingår i: Current Discourses and Global Challenges, 7-8 November 2019, Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During a restoration of the Romanesque church in Hemse in 1896, the remains of a stave church were found as reused floor tiles. The discovery was important at the time, providing new information to a prestigious research field with few sources of knowledge. Today the church’s stave members are esoteric museum artefacts, “re-membered” in various forms of production of history. This poster sets out from an in-deep re-examination and virtual reconstruction of the remains from this stave church. The digital reconstruction functions as a virtual diorama to contextualize the diffused and decontextualized remains and contemporaneous religious artefacts. The aim is methodological, to explore the uses of the digital artefact in the research process. The reconstruction is less of a static representation of our knowledge than a historical laboratory through which archive material can be activated and hypotheses can be tested. We seek to methodologise the virtual diorama, using the technology for testing hypothesis and observe the effects when enacting the environment. The presented research is ongoing and we invite for discussion. How can we, through the digital artefact, elicit the sensuous aspects of a virtual place, and at the same time communicate the rigour of research and display the ambiguities of the reconstruction? How can we in an intelligible way map and reference the archive materials without interfering with the presence effect of the diorama? What are the challenges to present an interactive virtual reality file as a self-standing research output? How can we develop the digital artefact to better engage both researchers and the public in a dialogue on the premises of cultural heritage research?
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969, et al.
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Att bygga en kyrka i trä
- 2017
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Ingår i: Bebyggelseshistorisk tidskrift. - 0349-2834. ; :74, s. 48-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The medieval corner-joint timber church at Södra Råda in Sweden was destroyed by arson in 2001. The building, which dated from the early 14th century, was one of the few extant cornerjoint churches in Scandinavia from this period. The National Heritage Board, which owned the church, began a complete reconstruction of the building “as a pedagogical example to enhance craft practice and historical knowledge of medieval churches”. The reconstruction began in 2006 and is not yet complete. The article details and analyses the results from a decade of building reconstruction. The aim is to shed light on the building processes and carpentry techniques that were used to build a corner-joint church in the early 14th century. The research focuses on historical techniques, materials and tools. How many trees were used and what was their quality? How much material and labour were expended on various parts of the timber structure? The project has also provided opportunities to discuss the construction context of the original building. Who built the church? What knowledge and skills did they have? How was the building conceptualised and how was this information communicated? How were people and materials organised during the building process? The reconstruction is both an arena and a method of research. The research process is shaped by a dialogue between the interpretation of source material and reconstruction practices. The source material comprises extant Swedish medieval timber buildings; tools and building components in museum collections; and written sources and contemporaneous illustrations of buildings and builders. Our empirical study follows a paradigm of clues, making the best of situations where source material is scarce, and its results yield hypotheses for craft-based reconstructive experiments. The reconstruction is designed as a hypothesis-driven deductive experiment, yet enactment sometimes provides unexpected affordances. Enactment through craftwork, in an environment similar to that experienced by medieval workers, without modern equipment or tools, reveals what is possible, impossible, labour-intensive, difficult or feasible when building a corner-joint church such as that at Södra Råda. The research has revealed characteristics of medieval carpentry and building techniques. The results also allow insight into the extensive labour that was required to obtain and prepare the various timber building materials. The roofing: rafters, boards and shingles were cut using cumbersome, labour-intensive methods. Most of the labour, two-thirds of the total, was expended on the roof. Logs for the walls were hewn into timbers with a rectangular cross section and sharp edges. These timbers meet end to end, forming a flush, ninety-degree angle at the corners of the building. This characteristic, common to all medieval corner-joint churches in Sweden, contrasts with secular timber buildings of the same date, which were built of logs with a rounded profile. At Södra Råda, the use of sharp-edged timbers up to 11 metres long calls for very skilled carpentry. Yet this part of the work has consumed a relatively small amount of construction time.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Att återbruka kunskap : To recycle craft knowledge
- 2010
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Ingår i: Byggnadskultur. - 0348-6885. ; :2010:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kunskap krävs för vård av äldre byggnader. Men hur vårdar man kunskap? Kan man återuppta förlorat hantverkskunnande? I den här artikeln presenteras Hantverkslaboratoriet, som ett nytt försök att möta ett gammalt problem, nämligen behovet av hantverkskompetens för att vårda äldre byggnader och kulturmiljöer.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Betongvågen
- 2014
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Ingår i: Byggnadskultur. - 0348-6885. ; :3/2011, s. 6-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969, et al.
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Between hemse and mästermyr craft interpretations of two archaeological findings from gotland
- 2021
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Ingår i: FormAkademisk. - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1890-9515. ; 14:2, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The distance between Hemse church and the fields of Mästermyr on the Swedish Island of Gotland is about eight kilometers. The distance or rather the proximity between these two places is given importance in this filmed research article. In the 1930s, a farmer found a wooden chest in Mästermyr containing hundreds of forged tools and other artefacts. During a restoration of the Romanesque Hemse church in the 1890s, reused parts of a stave church were discovered in the wooden floor. The hypothetical question that is investigated in this study is whether the tools from Mästermyr were used in the construction of Hemse stave church in the early 1100’s? This filmed article analyzes and compares the traces of toolmarks in Hemse stave church and the woodworking tools from the Märstermyr finding. Through a forensic examination involving 3D scanning with structured light, 3D printing and reconstruction of tools and woodworking procedures, it is revealed that several toolmarks in the stave church correspond to the characteristics of woodworking tools in the Mästermyr find. The tool's shape, dimensions and mode of operation are traced in its negative imprint in the stave church’s oak wood. © 2021, The Assosiation FormAkademisk. All rights reserved.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969, et al.
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Built cultural heritage in Antarctica : remains and uses of the first Swedish SouthPolar expedition 1901–1903
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 1901, Otto Nordenskjöld led the first Swedish South Polar expedition with a multidisciplinary team of researchers in geology, geography, biology and medicine. The original plan was to hibernate in Antarctica and stay for one year to survey the land, measure the climate, and collect samples, but their ship was wrecked and the expedition came to last more than two years. Today, the remains from this expedition are protected as cultural heritage according to the Antarctic Treaty and they have been maintained by Argentinian efforts. Among five protected cultural environments, the wooden research station on Snow Hill Island stands out. Sweden joined the Antarctic Treaty in 1984 but has not actively engaged in the management of cultural heritage there until the CHAQ2020 expedition in 2020. The fieldwork presented in this report was carried out in Antarctica with the purposes of documenting and assessing the condition of the remains and providing a knowledge base for policy and decision-making concerning Swedish cultural heritage in Antarctica.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Byggnaden som kunskapskälla : The building as a source of knowledge
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Buildings are indeed mute, yet many historians and architects claim that they can nevertheless speak. The challenge is to understand their language. This thesis examines the building as a source of knowledge. Setting out from a repertoire of historical investigation methods used by professional actors within the field of architectural conservation, the thesis deals with the question of what standard buildings can teach us about the past. What can buildings say, and to whom? The thesis is based on a case study of the national cultural reserve of Örnanäs in the region of Skåne in the south of Sweden. Örnanäs serves as a laboratory for action-based research and involves both conservationists and craftsmen. The unit of analysis is not the site in itself but the context and process of investigation. The process is examined from three perspectives, which correspond to the layout of the thesis: the forensic perspective on material culture, the source pluralism perspective, which refers to the possibility of combining information from multiple sources, and the actor perspective, which sheds light on how the actors involved influence the investigation. A theoretical platform is given by Carlo Ginzburg’s perspectives on diagnosis through clues and Martin Weaver’s approach in ‘forensic conservation’. The results constitute a set of reflections and judgements on a range of different survey methods and sources. In focus are working methods that facilitate an increased exchange between practice-based research and research-based practice. The forensic perspective activates the building as a source of knowledge, and by combining different approaches it is possible to shed light on the history of the building from many different angles. Inquiry of historic construction, material use and signs of toolmarks, tested through processual reconstruction, is a method that has been systematically examined. The conclusion is that this method requires craft skills, yet it also opens up for cross-disciplinary work and thinking. The results articulate the importance of a heuristic approach. As conservationists and architectural historians we need to oscillate back and forth between the details and the whole, between observations and logical reasoning and between a physio-technical and socio-cultural perspective in order to uncover the layers and traces of the history of a building. Keywords: Architectural conservation, historic buildings, building survey, survey methods, historical sources, building documentation, mapping, architectural drawing, architectural analysis, forensic conservation, reconstruction, historical work process, traditional building craft.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Byggnaden som kunskapskälla
- 2014
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Ingår i: Fråga Föremålen. Red. Anna Maria Forssberg & Karin Sennefeldt.. - Lund : studentlitteratur. - 9789144089805 ; , s. 71-88
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna handbok beskriver historiker, arkeologer, etnologer, konstvetare, vetenskapshistoriker, ekonomhistoriker, litteraturvetare och museiintendenter de många olika sätt man kan arbeta med materiell kultur på. Människans historia är också föremålens historia. Vi har skapat allt från enkla bruksföremål till avancerade industritillverkade apparater. Föremålen är inte bara praktiska hjälpmedel utan även uttryck för status och identitet. Men det är inte bara vi människor som format föremålen, föremålen har också format oss. Under senare år har historiskt inriktade forskare blivit alltmer intresserade av materiell kultur – både på ett teoretiskt och empiriskt plan. Denna nya källkategori leder till nya utmaningar för forskaren. Vilka frågor kan man ställa med hjälp av föremål? Vad kan föremål berätta som inte en text kan? Var hittar man historiska föremål? Boken behandlar mötet med det materiella, vilken roll föremål har spelat i konsumtionen, vilken logik som har styrt samlande av föremål samt hur föremål har varit del i att skapa vår verklighet. Dessutom innehåller den en praktisk vägledning till hur man undersöker föremål steg-för-steg och en presentation av Sveriges museer och deras samlingar. Fråga föremålen är främst avsedd som kurslitteratur i humanistiska ämnen vid universitet och högskolor där man arbetar med materiell kultur. Boken är också användbar för alla som arbetar i museivärlden.
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