CollAsia2010 : Partner Profiles

Partner Profiles

CollAsia 2010 is a partnership between SEAMEO-SPAFA (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation - Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts), based in Bangkok, Thailand, and ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property), based in Rome, Italy. Both organisations are prominent intergovernmental organisations with recognized expertise in conservation training and successful track records in capacity-building and networking activities.



SPAFA is the Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts. The Centre is under the aegis of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) and is hosted by the Government of Thailand. It operates as an autonomous, international institution. SPAFA's objectives are: to promote and help enrich archaeological and cultural activities in the region; to further professional competence in the fields of archaeology and fine arts through regional programmes and activities and through sharing of resources and experiences; and to advance mutual knowledge and understanding among the countries of Southeast Asia through regional programmes and multi- and inter-disciplinary studies, including archaeology, fine arts, architecture, museology, visual arts, art education, performing arts, cultural resource management, cultural heritage management, and tourism		The decision to found the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property was made at the 9th UNESCO General Conference in New Delhi in 1956 at a time of mounting interest in the protection and preservation of cultural heritage. The intergovernmental organization, now known as ICCROM, was established in Rome in 1959. It is the only institution of its kind with a worldwide mandate to promote the conservation of all types of cultural heritage, both movable and immovable. It currently comprises over 100 Member States. ICCROM aims at improving the quality of conservation practice as well as raising awareness about the importance of preserving cultural heritage. ICCROM contributes to preserving cultural heritage in the world today and for the future through five main areas of activity: training, information, research, co-operation and advocacy.

CollAsia2010 Project team

	Name	Similä, Katriina
	Contact email	ks@iccrom.org
	Working institution	ICCROM
	City	Rome
	Country	Italy
	Position	Project Manager
Katriina Similä from Finland has been a staff member of ICCROM since 1993. She has a BA degree in cultural anthropology and archaeology from the University of Helsinki. Katriina worked from 1984 until 1990 in Latin America at the "UNDP/UNESCO Regional Project for Development and Cultural Heritage", based in Lima, Peru. Before joining ICCROM, she spent 3 years in Finland working at the National Museum conservation laboratory and the EVTEK Conservation School in Vantaa. At ICCROM her first responsibility was to coordinate the Scientific Principles of Conservation course. She has worked on the development and implementation of various training activities in Rome and elsewhere, on scientific literacy and the preservation of different types of movable heritage. Her main interests are archaeological and ethnographic textiles.

	Name	TUNPRAWAT, Patcharawee
	Contact email	patchy@seameo-spafa.org
	Working institution	SPAFA
	City	Bangkok
	Country	Thailand
	Position	Researcher/Project Coordinator
Patcharawee Tunprawat has been working at SEAMEO-SPAFA since 2000 after completing her MA in South East Asian Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has been coordinating and managing various SPAFA’s projects focusing on cultural heritage preservation and community heritage management, including CollAsia 2010 and the Living Heritage Sites Programme for the Mekong Sub-Region in collaboration with ICCROM. She’s currently doing a PhD on community and heritage preservation in Southeast Asia at the Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Thailand.

	Name	KETTLE, Kevin Charles
	Contact email	Kevin@seameo-spafa.org
	Working institution	SPAFA
	City	Bangkok
	Country	Thailand
	Position	Project Development Officer
Kevin Charles Kettle from Ireland has been SEAMEO-SPAFA’s Programme Development Officer since 2000. He has a BA in History and a MBA in Educational Management from the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, and Leicester University, UK, respectively. At SPAFA his role is to conceive, design, and raise funds for proposed activities. His main area of interest is the correlation between culture and development initiatives. From 2003 until now, he has organized 10 workshops and 2 international conferences on this theme. As co-author of the book Guidelines for Managing the Integration of Culture into Development Programmes he has recently adapted many of the activities from this toolkit for use on CollAsia 2010 workshops to encourage participants to better plan and manage their professional activities. He has also conducted training programmes on topics ranging from income-generating activities in rural areas to international relations and has delivered paper presentations in various international contexts with a focus on the politics and poverty of development.

	Name	DHAMMAMITR, Palawat
	Contact email	palawat@hotmail.com
	Working institution	SPAFA
	City	Bangkok
	Country	Thailand
	Position	Webmaster - CollAsia2010
Palawat Dhammamitr graduated with B.Arch. from Silpakorn University in Thailand in 1995 and became practicing architect before joining the Royal Thai Army Engineer Corps in 2002. He received training from the U.S. Army Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, USA in 2004 and continued to work in the Army for a couple of years before resigning. On the other hand, with strong music background, he has also worked as musician and music composer with different Thai artists while working also as web designer and 3-D artist. He currently serves as Webmaster for CollAsia2010 website.

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