Adriana INCARDONA
Tutor: Anna Maria GUELI
Adriana Incardona is a recent PhD student in Heritage and Cultural Production Sciences (DSPPC) at the University of Catania. Her research activity focuses on the development of a methodology for microclimate monitoring in confined environments, starting from the knowledge of how measurement and analysis techniques have evolved over the years. In recent years, he has taken part in activities organised by the Italian Association of Archaeometry (AIAr): Art and(') Science at the Benedictine Monastery and MetroArchaeo organised by the University of Calabria, two events to deepen the relations between science, culture and society in the field of diagnostics, conservation and valorisation of cultural heritage. She won a Research Fellowship at the University of Catania entitled Methodologies for the quantification of colour differences, preceded by a year of voluntary attendance at the Physics and Astronomy Laboratories of Catania.
In 2021, she was selected to attend an advanced training school on non-invasive diagnostics for cultural heritage at the Museo Colle del Duomo in Viterbo.
She received her Master's Degree on 26 March 2021 in Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage.
At the Foundation Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage in 2017 he attended a high school in Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy and in 2020 in Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis.
On 13 December 2017, he obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage.
Preventive conservation: microclimate monitoring with innovative and eco-friendly devices
Abstract
The aim of the project is to develop a methodology for microclimate monitoring in confined environments, starting from the knowledge of how measurement and analysis techniques have evolved over the years in order to identify any criticalities that research can overcome. The aim of the project is therefore to quantify the factors responsible for degradation processes due to inadequate thermal and hygrometric conditions, and to measure the level of lighting and sample air pollutants in order to suggest strategies to improve indoor climatic conditions and guarantee the state of preservation. Microclimate parameters are currently monitored through the indications given in national and European standards (UNI and UNI-EN) that came into force between the late 1990s and more recent years. Conservation programmes in confined spaces are established on the basis of the characteristics of the content (work) and the container (building). In order to carry out the present research project, a case study was identified, the Church of San Biagio and its annexes, in which it is necessary to protect the frescoes, canvases and polychrome marbles through the study of commonly monitored environmental parameters such as temperature (temperature, T), relative humidity (RH), illuminance (illuminance, lux) and UV radiation (UV radiation, mW/cm2), trying to develop new tools in order to realise low-cost, smart and green methodologies.
Other activities during doctoral studies
Participation V AIAr School, Techniques for characterization and monitoring of buildings of historical and artistic interest, April 2023, Messina;
Participation XII National Congress of the Italian Archaeometric Society (AIAr), April 2023, Messina;
Oral and poster contributions
Participation in "MetroAchaeo 2022 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage," October 2022, with the poster Color specification for color rendering, Cosenza.
Participation in the "109th National Congress of Physics," September 2023, with paper entitled Color specification: comparison between contact and remote measurement methodologies, Fisciano