A successful first year for EWAP!

As the year comes to a close, we have the pleasure of awarding our first grants for projects to record endangered wooden architecture. This year's competition was high, with many important and interesting applications from across the globe. In the end we awarded eight small grants for one year projects and six large grants for two year projects from 12 countries. The diverse range of structures covered by these projects include the Churches of Chiloé, Chile, wooden townhouses (havelis) of Gujarat, India and traditional houses in the Tamang Heritage Trail (THT) in Nepal. An important element of these projects was the links they had and engagement activities they planned to undertake with the local communities. 

Location of Grants awarded by EWAP

During October we welcomed the new grantees with a series of Induction meetings. Nearly 50 team members joined us virtually from around the world to discuss the grant process and bring the different cohorts together. Topics covered ethics, open access, metadata, recording tips and  an interesting discussion on engaging with local communities. The meetings were an opportunity to introduce the projects and share perspectives, as well as an opportunity to ask questions and get advice. 

Over the coming year we will launch the EWAP open access repository. The platform developed within Arches, an open-source software, will allow all the survey data to be freely available online. The software will provide an interactive map of all the projects and a glossary of terms for easy searchability. Documentation from the first year’s grants will include a range of methods, such as digital outputs (images generated by point cloud, photogrammetric images, scaled ortho-images, 3D models), drawings (sketches, measured, technical), plans, sections and elevations, photographs, videos, maps, oral histories and other forms of written documentation.

Church of Caguach, UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Chiloé Archipelago, Chile. Photo: Natalia Cruz, 2021

The EWAP team would like to thank everyone who responded to our first call for applications and to those who helped in the review process. Congratulations again to the successful teams! We can’t wait to see more as the projects develop. 

Expressions of Interest for round two are now open – Closes 18th November 2022

https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/projects/endangered-wooden-architecture-programme/grant-information