October 14, 2026

COST Action News

Dr. Giuseppe Resta, ESIND member and co-leader of Working Group 4, has been awarded the 2026 Edilia and François-Auguste de Montêquin Senior Fellowship by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) for his research project “Indo-Portuguese architecture through a female gaze: Gritli von Mitterwallner, the Tata Family, and the East-Indian community of Mumbai.” Giuseppe works at…

On June 29th and 30th, the workshop “Cultural Heritage and Visual Representations of India” will take place at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal. The workshop is co-organised by the European Research Council Project ID-SCAPES – Building Identity: Religious Architecture and Sacral Landscapes of Christian Minorities in India and Bangladesh and the COST…

Titled “Develop and standardise early-phase archival acquisition protocols,” this hybrid workshop addressed the transition from scattered fieldwork data and private collections to professional archival management. Contributing to WG1’s Tasks T1.3 and T1.4 (Deliverables D3 and D4), the session used the Yalıboyu Evleri (Riverfront Houses) Digital Inventory in Amasya as a case study. Discussion centred on…

From the mid-16th to the mid-18th century, Jesuits played a major role in shaping European perceptions of India, influencing much of what Europeans read and discussed about the region. No other European institution in the early modern period produced as many texts, published as much material, circulated as many ideas, and shaped more concepts about…

This two-day event brought together experts and practitioners to explore the future of collaborative archives in landscape architecture, heritage preservation, and beyond, with 11 participants attending onsite and 10 joining online. The meeting focused on advancing WG1’s collaborative inventory roadmap through metadata and technical planning for the online archive map, brainstorming second-year activities and STSM…