Inventory as a preservation instrument: the Campinas city's experience (São Paulo State, Brazil)

Abstract

This paper presents the experience of Campinas City, São Paulo State (Brazil), in the accomplishment of an inventory of cultural resources. Initially are pointed out aspects concerning the beginning of local conservationist practices, rescuing some initiatives that culminated in 1987, the creation of the Conselho de Defesa do Patrimônio Cultural de Campinas [Council for Protection of Campinas Cultural Heritage] (Condepacc). It shows how the preservation institution's performance was initially focused on answers to specific demands - commonly the safeguarding of buildings threatened with demolition - without the holding, for almost twenty years, an inventory that subsidized its activities. Finally, are exposed informations on the deployment and development of the inventory of the Campinas Central Region, such a methodology employed and the first results in guiding public policy in the municipal cultural heritage subject.