INITIATIVES
October 2000
Seminar: "Restoration regulations" Speaker Arch. Bovo Paolo
October 2000
Seminar: "The Holy Shroud and Confraternity" Speaker: Barberis Bruno Chairman of the Confraternity of the Holy Shroud - Turin
January 2001
Seminar: "Bottheghe Scuola" (Training Workshops) Speaker: Dott.ssa Bernengo Tiziana Manager of the Settore Disciplina e Tutela dell'Artigianato (Handicrafts Department) - Council office for Handicrafts of the Piedmont Region
March 2001
Seminar: "New regulations concerning the job of restorer" Speaker: Dott.ssa Spantigati Enrica Supervisor of the Artistic and Cultural Heritage of Piedmont
April 2001
Regional law and entrepreneurship" Speaker: Dott.ssa Bernengo Tiziana Manager of the Settore Disciplina e Tutela dell'Artigianato (Handicrafts Department) - Council office for Handicrafts of the Piedmont Region
October 2002
Project: "BOTTEGHE SCUOLA" Settore Disciplina e Tutela dell'Artigianato (Handicrafts Department) - Council office for Handicrafts of the Piedmont Region
December 2002
Convention: "Production and diffusion of ceramic materials in northern Italy between the 6th and 10th century" SERMIG Turin - Office for the Supervision of the Archaeological Heritage of Piedmont
June 2003
Event: "Applied art" in cooperation with the AGIRE Office of the Piedmont Region
May 2004
Seminars "Theory and history of restoration - 1. From the origins to Brandi/ 2. From Brandi up to today" Speaker: Arch Restorer Rava Antonio
Octobre 2004
1st Convention in cooperation with the Piedmont restoration Consortium: "Restoration, preservation and protection of ecclesiastical heritage" Piedmont Region, Confartigianato, Office for the Supervision of the Historical, Artistic and Demoethnoanthropological Heritage, Archdiocese of Turin, Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence and Polytechnic of Turin
October 2004
Seminar: "Restoration and preservation of polychromy of wooden statues" with Prof. Maria Donata Mazzoni (restorer) and Dott. Isetta Tosini (biologist) from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence
June 2005
Seminar: "The use of LASER to clean wooden surfaces - Preparatory seminar" with the Chemist Dott. Leonardo Borgioli, Manager of the Technical Scientific Office at C.T.S. Srl.
October 2005
2nd Convention in cooperation with: Confartigianato Piemonte, Office for the Supervision of the Historical, Artistic and Demoethnoanthropological Heritage, Office for the Supervision of the Archaeological Heritage and Landscape of Piedmont, Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence and C.T.S., with the title: "Training and information - meetings and debates for artisan restorers".
March -30th 2006
1st course "Chemistry of Artistic Materials" addressed to Artisans and Restorers with the aim of introducing the chemical aspects of different handmade objects and restoration treatments so that more conservative and conscious choices may be made. Organised by Dott.ssa Luciana Ruatta, lecturer in chemistry at the School for Artisan restorers and at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin