The 'Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project' (PSPP) is a ten-year project for the conservation of one of the archeological sites most at risk and most visited in the world. The 'Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project', promoted and coordinated by the Fraunhofer-Institut for Building Physics IBP, the Institute for Restoration at the Technische Universität München (TUM) and the International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), in close cooperation with the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei, will begin in summer 2014.
The University of Pisa is involved in the 'Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project' as part of a consortium of international institutes: The Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali of the CNR, Oxford University, the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) of Rome and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich, with the archeologist Anna Anguissola at the forefront as a mediator between Pisa University and the other scientific partners.
Professor Lucia Faedo from the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at Pisa University explains, "The project will pursue three aims, all closely connected: restoration, teaching and research. In particular, we will have a double role of assistance and orientation, thanks also to the commitment in the the project of a researcher educated in Pisa, Dr. Anna Anguissola, currently a post-doctoral and teaching fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich. We will be involved in research and teaching with regards to the archeological and art-historical disciplines; at the same time we may develop independent research lines within the framework of the project and in agreement with the other partners."
"One of our objectives", concludes the archeologist Lucia Faedo "is to turn Pompeii into a centre of research and teaching dealing with the conservation of ancient architecture. The progressive decline caused by the passing of time, weather conditions and the general wear and tear of mass tourism threatens the survival of this extraordinary archeological site. Its conservation requires an immediate and profound intervention along the guidelines indicated by the Soprintendenza. The aim of the 'Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project' is to widen the range of interventions already programmed by Italy and the European Union in the framework of the 'Great Pompeii Project' and to sustain the widespread and detailed work of preservation carried out daily by the Soprintendenza".