Following a strategy designed to bring science closer to society, ARTIS-IHA organizes national and international scientific meetings held sporadically, such as conferences, colloquia and congresses of national and international scope, as well as periodic events, such as conference cycles, workshops or open courses.

The International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites, usually known as the VENICE CHARTER, was adopted by the ICOMOS - International Council of Monuments and Sites, following the 2nd International Congress of Architects and Technicians of Historic Monuments held in Venice from 25 to 31 May 1964.

ARTis NOW will host a workshop dedicated to digital documentation of architectural heritage, featuring Mario Santana Quintero [Carleton University - Honorary President of the ICOMOS Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation (CIPA)], one of the world's leading experts in the field.

In this third edition, the aim is to highlight the potential of welfare architecture, on different continents, to provide global health care for human beings, considering the form, implementation of treatment environments and the adoption of humanised methods to obtain answers to questions about sustainability and humanisation in hospitals and other health facilities.

The everyday life in a hospital has always been related to different objects and practices that make up the material expression of established human relationships and the very functioning of such places. In its spatial or topographical, chronological and historical and anthropological dimensions, material culture is related to the purpose or meaning that objects have for a particular people or culture and is essential in defining a society's cultural identity.