Introduction

The CIDOC Training Association Summer School will be taking place for the first time in Switzerland, at the EPFL campus in Lausanne, overlooking Lake Leman.The event is organised in conjunction with the Symposium: Archiving Intangible Cultural Heritage – a symposium for living traditions and the EPFL ArtLab exhibition Kung Fu Motion: the living archive.

The Summer School workshops, to be delivered with French and English translation, will cover the essentials of museum documentation theory and practice, with a special focus on documenting living traditions and intangible heritage.

The event includes lectures, training workshops, exhibition visits and behind the scenes tours.