SILEPARQ 2023. The survey of San Pedro Claver in Cartagena de Indias

Seminars, conferences and symposiums offer innovative scenarios and opportunities, where the traditional borders of disciplinary fields give way to interdisciplinarity and internationality that seem more appropriate to the objectives of an event that address es the cultural heritage topic. On the 2023 edition, the main partner was the Greater University Institution of Cartagena (UMayor), SILEPARQ’S first public organization, whereas in previous editions, the organization of the event was shared with Colombian private universi es together with Italian public universi es. SILEPARQ, a series of seminars introduced in 2018 in La n America, is primarily aimed at the community of students of Colombian architecture departments and pursues the objective of raising awareness among participating cultures about issues related to the surveying and graphic documenta on discipline in architecture through theoretical-practical experiences, with the aim of training new generations with broader visions, technological capabilities for knowledge and scrupulous documenta on of the existing heritage. Now, if on the one hand the Seminar suggests an opportunity for La n American universi es themselves to reflect on the lack of traditional training offers linked to the heritage study, at the same me it offers new research ideas and forms of international scientific collaboration, as well as new approaches to the study of cultural and architectural realities completely different from the ones found in Italy. Objectives of the 2023 edition The IV Seminar in Cartagena was split into two consolidated moments: the inaugural study day and the workshop day applied to a case study. The la er represented the most ‘participatory’ moment and was structured according to a calendar divided into different moments: analysis of survey techniques, laboratory ac vi es for pro cessing the acquired data and the creation of a representation form of the graphically obtained results. Therefore, if the opening day of SILEPARQ was held in the evocative seng of the theater of the Academy of Fine Arts in the Caribbean city of Cartagena, that is, the review of reports and presentations of application experiences carried out by international teaching staff , it was the last day that hosted a second moment of discussion and reflection on the work results of all the participants in the seminar. This was in fact the opportunity to share the results, par ally though, achieved throughout the workshop, conceived as an operational laboratory intend ed not only for methodological experimentation (representing one of the main objectives of the Seminar) but also for the achievement of graphic results comparable to a first form of real heritage documentation. Actually, the workshop alternated conferences and fi eld ac vi es around one of the most significant architectural symbols of the city: the Jesuit church of San Pedro Claver, selected by the scientific committee as the epicenter of the application activities. Workshop methods/tools. The identified Church, an architectural work dedicated to the cult of San Pedro Claver, whose remains are found in its main altar and watched by the Company of Jesus (Jesuits), represents a significant monument in the city of Cartagena de Indias. The religious temple is part of a set of religious buildings completed with the Cloister of San Pedro Claver and the Archaeological Museum. With the IV edition and a er the mandatory interruption due to the pandemic emergency, the SILEPARQ event was resumed, confirming some invariants that now go along with this international project, such as the intention to select a place declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, where it had already been done in previous editions, and in order to pursue the idea of consolidating the event in Latin America through a series of experiences in highly striking sites, in terms of proven and declared historical-cultural recognition.