EWAP2026 conference in Ahmedabad
Following on from our first conference in Oxford in October 2024, the second and final EWAP conference took place in Ahmedabad, India on 28 February 2026. The conference, coordinated by Kelly Reed, was organised in collaboration with the Centre for Cultural Heritage (CHC) at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, a first round EWAP project recipient. Participants representing 14 EWAP projects travelled from across India, Brazil, Mexico, New Zealand (project in Fiji), Malaysia, Indonesia, Poland, Iran, and the UK (projects in India, Iraq, Bulgaria and Serbia) to present their processes of documenting wooden architecture. The conference once again highlighted the rich diversity of EWAP projects, the wooden architecture that is being documented, and the different approaches to architectural and ethnographic documentation followed by the teams. Approaches ranged from the highly technical to the very personal. The ways in which we capture, document and represent wooden heritage was a key discus...
