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January 18, 2012
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5:30
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WPI Life Sciences & Bioengineering Center,
Gateway Park,60 Prescott, Street,
Worcester, MA 01605
GP1002 Seminar Room
After you enter the WPI Life Sciences & Bioengineering Center, there is a lecture hall in the ground floor "GP1002 Seminar Room"
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"0% Failure Projects"
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Bryan Owen, , PMP Art Conservator |
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Projects are initiated in many fields to create something
new and with value: automobiles, computer software, construction, customer service
initiatives, and more. Art conservation projects (ACPs), on the other hand, create
nothing intrinsically new. It is a bit subtle, since there is enhanced value in the
result of an ACP. But the value enhanced by ACPs is more abstract. Success is qualitative,
nuanced, subjective. However, there are hard edges to the potential results of ACPs:
destruction of cultural heritage material, loss of an irreplaceable object.
The planning of an ACP circles an idea: do no harm to the object while increasing its lifespan.
Planning keys on the management of risks: stakeholder understanding, object history,
treatment contingencies, and resources. As the baseline planning proceeds, much
effort is directed toward the risk event probabilities and the responses. The
tasks, taken in order, will beget something ‘new’ each time: the same object.
The inherent difficulty in planning for an ACP is the understanding that each
step – or task – renders the prior state of the object null and void. This
tangible irreversibility will produce for the successor task a ‘new’ object in
terms of the inherited – and possibly altered – characteristics attained from
the previous task. Therefore ACPs must tilt heavily toward testing and planning
that is repetitive.
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| About
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Bryan Owen, PMP Art Conservator
Bryan Owen has been a practicing art conservator for over 17 years. He has been
involved in various large scale projects for the National Park Service, historic
organizations, and private collectors. For 20 years Bryan has been a member of
and led project teams in semiconductor design, commercial construction, and art
conservation.
Bryan speaks to audiences to promote the profession, train museum personnel in
the ‘art’ of managing projects, and ‘broaden the base’ to include fields that
can help further the goals of art conservation.
He is a Professional Associate in the American Institute for the Conservation of
Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and has a Project Management Professional
certification with the Project Management Institute (PMI). He also holds a
chemistry and material science degree from North Caroline State University.
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