Foundations of Klironomy
Book I of The Klironomical Sciences Series
Book I of The Klironomical Sciences Series — a digital-first scholarly project establishing the scientific foundations of cultural heritage studies through a new framework of Tangible, Intangible, and Theoretical Klironomy.
The First Foundational Volume
What Is Klironomy?
A scientific framework for the preservation, interpretation, and systematic study of cultural heritage.
Klironomy is an emerging scientific framework devoted to the preservation, interpretation, and systematic study of cultural heritage. It seeks to provide a broader and more integrated language for heritage scholarship than is usually offered by narrow restoration-based or isolated disciplinary approaches.
Rather than reducing heritage work to a single practical field, klironomy treats cultural heritage as a complex domain requiring conceptual, methodological, educational, and applied scientific foundations. It connects preservation, documentation, analysis, continuity, and specialist training within one coherent intellectual structure.
Tangible Klironomy
The study of tangible cultural heritage, including material objects, monuments, sites, architecture, artefacts, collections, and practices of preservation.
Intangible Klironomy
The study of living heritage, traditions, languages, rituals, folklore, practices, memory, symbolic continuity, and cultural transmission.
Theoretical Klironomy
The conceptual, philosophical, historical, geographical, methodological, analytical, juristical, and futuristic framework of the klironomical sciences.
Why This Project Matters Now
The study and preservation of cultural heritage remain fragmented across many disciplines, institutional practices, and terminologies. Important work is being done in restoration, heritage documentation, conservation, museology, cultural studies, and philosophy, but the field still lacks a unified scholarly framework capable of connecting these efforts in a systematic way.
At the same time, cultural heritage today is shaped by destruction, displacement, digital transformation, changing identities, and the growing need for interdisciplinary methods. Researchers, universities, museums, archives, and cultural organisations increasingly need a more coherent language for understanding heritage as a living and complex field of continuity.
Fragmentation
Heritage studies often remain divided between disconnected disciplines, methods, and institutional languages.
Need for a Framework
A broader scientific structure is needed to connect philosophy, preservation, documentation, interpretation, and education.
Training Future Specialists
Cultural heritage increasingly requires specialists trained within a more integrated intellectual and methodological model.
Conceptual Scheme of Klironomy
The conceptual scheme shows klironomy as a coherent system of three equal domains of knowledge. Each domain contains its group of sciences, while all three together form one integrated scientific framework for cultural heritage.
This framework forms the intellectual basis of Book I — Foundations of Klironomy — and opens the way for the wider Klironomical Sciences Series.
Book I — Foundations of Klironomy
The first foundational volume of The Klironomical Sciences Series
Foundations of Klironomy is the first volume of The Klironomical Sciences Series. It is designed as the entry point to klironomy as a scientific framework for the preservation, interpretation, and systematic study of cultural heritage.
The book introduces the three primary domains of the field — Tangible Klironomy, Intangible Klironomy, and Theoretical Klironomy — and explains how they form the basis of a wider system of klironomical sciences.
This volume is not a simple republication of earlier works. It builds on the author’s previous books and articles, but reorganises the field into a clearer, broader, and more accessible structure for an international scholarly and professional audience.
What This First Project Will Create
A scientific framework for the preservation, interpretation, and systematic study of cultural heritage.
Book I — Foundations of Klironomy
A flagship scholarly volume introducing klironomy as a coherent scientific framework for cultural heritage studies.
Map of the Klironomical Sciences
A visual map presenting Tangible, Intangible, and Theoretical Klironomy as three connected domains of knowledge.
Foundational Klironomical Glossary
A structured glossary of key klironomical terms, concepts, and disciplinary definitions.
Series Prospectus
A concise roadmap of the future books and the wider architecture of The Klironomical Sciences Series.
Preview Materials
Selected outlines, concepts, or sample materials for future volumes of the series.
Digital Edition
A digital-first edition prepared for international access, scholarly use, and further development of the series.
Why This Volume Comes First
Before the individual branches of klironomy can be developed as separate books, the field requires a clear foundational volume. Foundations of Klironomy establishes the conceptual language, disciplinary structure, and intellectual orientation of the entire series.
It defines the field
The volume explains what klironomy is, why it is needed, and how it differs from fragmented approaches to cultural heritage.
It structures the domains
The book introduces Tangible, Intangible, and Theoretical Klironomy as three equal pillars of one coherent scientific framework.
It opens the series
The volume creates the foundation for future books on the specialised sciences and applied directions of klironomy.
Indicative Table of Contents
The final structure may be refined during editorial development, but the first volume is planned around the following core chapters.
Relation to Previous Works
Foundations of Klironomy builds on Alexander Buychik’s earlier books and publications, but it is conceived as a new foundational volume for the wider series. Its purpose is to present klironomy in a more structured, accessible, and internationally oriented form.
Klironomy as a Science of Preservation of Cultural Heritage
The early monographic foundation of klironomy as a scientific approach to cultural heritage preservation.
Klironomy: The Science of Cultural Heritage
A further consolidation of klironomy as a scientific field and a disciplinary framework.
Foundations of Klironomy
A new entry-point volume that reorganises the field as the beginning of The Klironomical Sciences Series.
Digital-First Publication Model
The first volume is planned as a digital-first scholarly publication. This model allows the project to prioritise research quality, editorial preparation, international accessibility, glossary development, and the preparation of the wider series.
Print is not excluded from the future of the project. Limited printed editions may be introduced later for libraries, institutional partners, patrons, and collectors.
Book I establishes the foundation. The following volumes will expand this framework into a wider system of klironomical sciences.
The Wider Klironomical Sciences Series
A structured scholarly and educational programme for the development of klironomy as a system of sciences.
The Klironomical Sciences Series is not conceived as a disconnected set of books. It is designed as a structured scholarly programme that develops klironomy step by step: from its foundational concepts to its three major domains, specialised sciences, methods, and educational applications.
Book I — Foundations of Klironomy — establishes the conceptual basis of the series. The following volumes expand this framework into Tangible Klironomy, Intangible Klironomy, Theoretical Klironomy, and a wider system of specialised klironomical sciences.
In this sense, the series is intended to become not only a publishing project, but also a long-term scientific and educational platform for cultural heritage scholarship and specialist training.
Series Architecture
The series is organised as a step-by-step development of klironomy: from its foundational volumes to its domain-based sciences and applied educational directions.
Foundational Cycle
The opening cycle establishes the general framework of klironomy and introduces its three primary domains.
Domain-Based Sciences
Each primary domain of klironomy contains its own group of specialised sciences, forming a balanced disciplinary system.
Tangible Klironomy
- Landscape Klironomy
- Urbanistic Klironomy
- Architectural Klironomy
- Sculptural Klironomy
- Pictural Klironomy
- Artistic Klironomy
- Archaeological Klironomy
- Inauthentic Klironomy
- Museum Klironomy
Intangible Klironomy
- Inventum Klironomy
- Folklore Klironomy
- Traditional Klironomy
- Confessional Klironomy
- Ethnic Klironomy
- Communicative Klironomy
Theoretical Klironomy
- Philosophical Klironomy
- Historical Klironomy
- Geographical Klironomy
- Methodological Klironomy
- Analytical Klironomy
- Juristical Klironomy
- Futuristic Klironomy
Applied and Educational Cycle
The applied cycle connects klironomical theory with methods, professional training, documentation, revitalisation, and institutional use.
Development Roadmap of the Series
The series is planned as a gradual expansion from the foundational volume to specialised sciences and applied educational resources.
Foundation
Book I — Foundations of Klironomy
The first volume establishes the conceptual language, structure, and intellectual basis of the series.
Three Domains
Tangible, Intangible, and Theoretical Klironomy
The next volumes develop the three primary domains of klironomy as separate foundational directions.
Specialised Sciences
Individual klironomical sciences
Further books expand the system through specialised sciences such as Philosophical, Historical, Geographical, Methodological, Juristical, Futuristic, Museum, Folklore, Communicative, and other branches of klironomy.
Applied and Educational Development
Methods, training, documentation, and professional use
The applied cycle connects the series with specialist training, cultural heritage documentation, revitalisation, institutional practice, and educational programmes.
Why the Series Matters
The Klironomical Sciences Series is designed not only to publish books, but to build a durable scientific and educational foundation for cultural heritage studies.
It builds a scientific infrastructure
The series develops klironomy as a system of sciences, with its own concepts, domains, terminology, methods, and disciplinary architecture.
It supports specialist training
The books are planned as a foundation for future educational materials, academic courses, and professional preparation in the field of cultural heritage.
It connects theory and practice
The series links philosophical reflection, documentation, analysis, preservation, revitalisation, and institutional use within one coherent framework.
It gives the field a common language
By developing a structured vocabulary and conceptual map, the series helps connect researchers, educators, cultural institutions, and heritage professionals.
The series is based on Alexander Buychik’s long-term scholarly work in cultural heritage, restoration, preservation, and the development of klironomy as a science.
About the CreatorAbout the Creator
Alexander Buychik — founder of klironomy and creator of The Klironomical Sciences Series.
The author’s long-term work in this field is reflected in books and publications on cultural heritage, restoration, preservation, and klironomy.
View Selected WorksSelected Works
Core books and selected publications forming the scholarly foundation of The Klironomical Sciences Series.
The Klironomical Sciences Series grows out of a long-term body of work in cultural heritage, restoration, preservation, and klironomy. This research trajectory began well before the present project and gradually developed from the study of restoration and heritage preservation into the formulation of klironomy as a scientific framework.
The author’s books and selected publications show the transition from early cultural heritage research to the development of klironomy as a science, its educational significance, its theoretical sciences, and its methodological apparatus. The first volume of the new series builds directly on this foundation.
Core Books
Two monographic works form the principal book foundation for the development of klironomy and the new series.
Klironomy as a Science of Preservation of Cultural Heritage
The early monographic foundation of klironomy as a scientific approach to the preservation of cultural heritage.
View BookKlironomy: The Science of Cultural Heritage
A further consolidation of klironomy as a scientific field and a broader disciplinary framework for cultural heritage studies.
View BookSelected Publications Timeline
Ten selected publications showing the development from cultural heritage and restoration studies to klironomy as a system of sciences.
Pedagogical aspect of cultural heritage: new perception of restoration
Early heritage-oriented work linking restoration, cultural heritage, and educational perception.
Philosophical and cultural aspects of cultural heritage preservation: destruction and restoration
A philosophical framing of preservation, destruction, restoration, and the cultural value of heritage.
Actualization of restoration as a scientific direction
A step toward understanding restoration not only as practice, but as a scientific direction.
The problem of formation of klironomy as a science of the preservation of cultural heritage
A milestone publication presenting klironomy as a forming scientific field.
Klironomy as a systematic scientific approach to the preservation of cultural heritage: its place in the educational system
A key text connecting klironomy with education and specialist training.
The relevance of the formation of the science of the cultural heritage preservation as the evolution of social and scientific thought
A broader conceptual argument for the emergence of cultural heritage preservation as a science.
The relevance of creating a scientific and educational complex for training specialists in revitalization
A publication directly supporting the educational and professional dimension of the future series.
Development of a complex of sciences on cultural heritage based on the formation of documentation about it and its economic effectiveness
A key text for presenting klironomy as a wider complex of sciences connected with documentation and effectiveness.
The studies in preserving cultural heritage: The methodological apparatus of the new sciences of theoretical klironomy
A decisive publication for explaining the internal differentiation of theoretical klironomy.
Klironomical methods for the study of cultural heritage: From philosophical reconstruction to applied analysis
A maturity point of the trajectory, presenting klironomy as a methodological system.
Research Trajectory Summary
Taken together, these books and publications show a continuous trajectory from restoration and cultural heritage studies to the formation of klironomy as a science, and further to the development of klironomical sciences, methods, and educational foundations.
This trajectory forms the scholarly basis of Foundations of Klironomy and supports the wider development of The Klironomical Sciences Series as a long-term scientific and educational project.
The selected works above represent only part of the author’s broader scholarly corpus. Full lists of books and publications are available on Alexander Buychik’s personal website.
Support the Project
Help launch the first foundational volume of The Klironomical Sciences Series and support the development of klironomy as a scientific and educational framework for cultural heritage.
Support for this project makes it possible to focus on the quality of the research, editorial preparation, conceptual systematisation, glossary development, visual materials, and the preparation of future volumes.
The campaign is designed as a digital-first scholarly initiative, where contributions help create not only a book, but the intellectual and educational foundation for a wider series of klironomical sciences.
Who This Project Is For
The project is intended for readers, researchers, institutions, and professionals seeking a deeper scientific foundation for cultural heritage studies.
Researchers
Scholars in cultural heritage, philosophy, history, cultural studies, and related fields.
Lecturers and Postgraduate Students
Those working on advanced academic teaching and research in heritage-related disciplines.
Libraries and Universities
Institutions interested in building stronger scholarly foundations for heritage studies.
Museums and Archives
Professionals and organisations involved in preservation, interpretation, and continuity of heritage.
Cultural Institutions
Public and independent bodies engaged in heritage policy, memory, and transmission.
Heritage Professionals
Those involved in documentation, revitalisation, conservation, interpretation, and cultural continuity.
Why Support This Project
Supporting this project means helping to create not only a book, but the intellectual foundation of a wider scholarly and educational framework.
Support a Foundational Book
Help create the first volume that introduces the scientific foundations of klironomy.
Help Shape a New Scholarly Framework
Contribute to the development of concepts, terminology, and structure for a new field of cultural heritage studies.
Contribute to Future Specialist Training
Support materials that may become a basis for future educational programmes and professional preparation.
Enable the Growth of a Wider Series
Help prepare the next volumes of The Klironomical Sciences Series.
Ways to Support and Participate
Support can take different forms, from individual reader contributions to scholarly, patron, and institutional participation.
Individual Support
For readers and supporters who want to help the first volume become possible.
Digital and Founding Readers
For readers who want access to the digital edition, project materials, and early development updates.
Scholarly Supporters
For researchers, educators, and heritage professionals interested in closer access to the project.
Patron Support
For supporters who want to help launch the wider series and be acknowledged as patrons of the project.
Institutional Support
For libraries, universities, museums, archives, cultural organisations, and research groups.
The exact support options and amounts will be available on the selected crowdfunding or patronage platform.
Strategic and Lead Patron Participation
Major supporters and institutions may participate at a higher level by helping to secure a significant part of the first project’s funding target.
Strategic Supporter
For major supporters interested in helping the project move beyond the first book and into the wider development of the series.
- Full digital project package
- Acknowledgement as Strategic Supporter
- Closed development briefing
- Selected preview materials
Lead Founding Patron
For a major individual patron, foundation, organisation, or cultural institution supporting 25% or more of the campaign target.
- Prominent acknowledgement as Lead Founding Patron
- Certificate of support
- Personal thank-you letter from the author
- Closed strategic briefing with the author
Principal Institutional Partner
For institutions or principal patrons interested in supporting the long-term scholarly and educational development of klironomy.
- Institutional digital package
- Online presentation for the institution
- Project briefing for a library, department, or cultural organisation
- Discussion of future academic or educational cooperation
Strategic and lead patrons receive privileged insight into the development of the project and may participate in selected discussion sessions, while the scholarly content and editorial decisions remain fully author-led.
What Support Will Fund
Support for the first project will be directed toward the practical development, preparation, and publication of Book I and its supporting materials.
Manuscript Development
Refinement and development of Book I as the foundational volume of The Klironomical Sciences Series.
Editorial Preparation
Scholarly editing, copyediting, language refinement, and consistency review of the manuscript.
Glossary and Terminology
Development of the foundational glossary of klironomy and clarification of key disciplinary concepts.
Visual Systematisation
Preparation of maps, diagrams, conceptual schemes, and visual materials explaining the structure of klironomy.
Digital Publication
Preparation of the digital-first edition for international access, scholarly use, and further project development.
Future Volume Preparation
Series prospectus, outlines, preview materials, and conceptual preparation for the following books.
Project Roadmap
A staged digital-first scholarly publication process for Book I and the expansion of The Klironomical Sciences Series.
Campaign Launch
Public presentation of Book I, the wider series, the project’s goals, and the support model.
Manuscript Development
Refinement of the book structure, language, conceptual presentation, and core arguments.
Editorial Preparation
Scholarly editing, copyediting, glossary work, terminology review, and consistency control.
Design and Systematisation
Book layout, visual map of the klironomical sciences, conceptual schemes, and supporting materials.
Digital Release
Publication of the digital-first foundational volume and the related project resources.
Series Expansion
Preparation of the next volumes and further development of The Klironomical Sciences Series.
Visual Introduction to Klironomy
A short presentation introduces klironomy as the science of cultural heritage preservation, explains its components, objects, aims, areas, and future development.
The presentation is available in the Science of Klironomy section and may be used as a quick visual entry point into the project.
Open PresentationKlironomy
Science of the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Support the First Foundational Volume of The Klironomical Sciences Series
By supporting this project, you help establish the scientific and educational foundations for the next stage of cultural heritage scholarship.
Frequently Asked Questions
Key answers about klironomy, Book I, the wider series, and the support model.
Klironomy is an emerging scientific framework devoted to the preservation, interpretation, and systematic study of cultural heritage. It brings together tangible, intangible, and theoretical dimensions of heritage within one coherent scholarly structure.
It is conceived as a new foundational volume. The book builds on Alexander Buychik’s previous books and publications, but reorganises the field into a clearer, broader, and more accessible structure for the wider Klironomical Sciences Series.
A digital-first model allows the project to prioritise research quality, editorial preparation, international accessibility, glossary development, visual systematisation, and preparation of the wider series before any limited printed edition is considered.
Print is not excluded. Limited printed editions may be introduced later for libraries, institutional partners, patrons, collectors, and selected scholarly contexts.
The book is intended for researchers, lecturers, postgraduate students, libraries, universities, museums, archives, cultural institutions, and heritage professionals interested in a deeper scientific foundation for cultural heritage studies.
Future volumes are planned to develop Tangible Klironomy, Intangible Klironomy, Theoretical Klironomy, specialised klironomical sciences, methods, documentation, revitalisation, and educational foundations for specialist training.
The project grows directly out of a long-term scholarly trajectory in cultural heritage, restoration, preservation, and klironomy. Earlier books and articles form the research foundation for the first volume and the wider series.
Support helps fund manuscript development, editorial preparation, glossary and terminology work, visual systematisation, digital publication, and preparation of future volumes in The Klironomical Sciences Series.
No. Strategic and lead patrons may receive privileged insight into the development of the project and participate in selected discussion sessions, but scholarly content and editorial decisions remain fully author-led.
More information is available through Alexander Buychik’s personal website, including the Science of Klironomy section, books, publications, presentations, and project materials.