Following the terrible fire at Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15, 2019, an inter-institutional «scientific project» led by the CNRS (notably by the Mission for Transversal and Interdisciplinary Initiatives) and the Ministry of Culture was born. Thus, in close connection with the restoration site, for 5 years, nine working groups have been developing interdisciplinary research around the monument. The fields of investigation concern the restoration of the damaged edifice as well as its history and that of the successive construction sites since the Middle Ages. They cover both material aspects (related to the different materials of the monument, their implementation, their environments and their dating) and immaterial with acoustic issues, anthropological and digital and involve disciplinary fields as diverse as materials, structural and digital sciences, acoustics, history, archaeology and anthropology.
On 19 and 20 October 2022, a first symposium of the scientific site was held to clarify the issues and define the research axes of the working groups. This conference aims, in 2024, the year the cathedral reopens to the public, to take stock of the results of the research.
It was organized in 9 sessions with themes treated diachronically and transcending the working groups. Beyond the assessment, the expected outcomes of this conference were also to lay the groundwork for methodologies and research questions, inspired by the exceptional example of Notre-DameDame de Paris, which will be transposable to all national and European Gothic monuments thanks to innovative methodologies and approaches recently developed.
LIST OF SESSIONS:
Monday, April 22, 2024 – 9:15-18:40
Session 1: An extraordinary, interdisciplinary and inter-institutional project (Coordinators)
Session 2: A revisited chronology (Alexa Dufraisse and Yves Gallet)
Session 3: Fireproof materials and structures (Claudine Loisel)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 – 9am-7pm
Session 4: Know-how and construction techniques: reviving history (Yves Gallet and Véronique Dassié)
Session 5: Procurement of the site, from yesterday to today: a new interdisciplinary reading (Maxime L'Héritier)
Session 6: Architectural structures and experiences (Stéphane Morel and Arnaud Ybert)
Session 7: Our Lady through the Digital Lens (Livio De Luca and Mylène Pardoen)
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 – 9am-4pm
Session 8: The cathedral in its environment (Alexa Dufraisse and Jean-Luc Dupouey)
Session 9: A place lived (Dany Sandron and Sylvie Sagnes)
Information and programme on https://notre-dame2024.sciencesconf.org/
>> To learn more about the contribution of science to the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris, see the book "Notre-Dame de Paris, science at work"directed by Philippe Dillmann, Pascal Liévaux, Aline Magnien and Martine Regert, published in September 2022 by Le Cherche-Midi. <
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