New Heritage Approaches

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Unsustainable urban change and expansion processes, climate changes, predatory tourism, protected areas downgrading, transnational exodus and the widespread consequential depletion of relations between society and nature, as well as socio-environmental and armed conflicts, bring new challenges to our collective heritage in the 21st century. New heritage approaches should inquire why and for whom the heritage sites are designated, providing meaningful narratives for the users to ensure their preservation. Gender, ethnicity, race and income are key aspects of diversity and inequality in the current geopolitical context to be considered. New heritage approaches should create living and integrated sites in a territorial and urban landscape perspective, articulating nature and culture, considering the tangible and intangible dimensions of heritage, fostering strategies to decolonize the notion of heritage, (re)interpretating its values and attributes through proactive strategies of conservation. Sustainable strategies should congregate the development of heritage education and social participation as instruments to enhance emancipation, citizenship and democratization of decision-making processes. The integration of heritage conservation in territorial planning politics and tools with a broad participatory perspective is also crucial to ensure an appropriate and inclusive heritage management. Join us in seminars, courses, exhibitions and public debates, and help building an integrated heritage conservation approach!

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New Heritage Approaches
HERITAGE ECONOMICS – EVIDENCE BASED INNOVATIVE PRACTICES
New Heritage Approaches
HERITAGE ECONOMICS – EVIDENCE BASED INNOVATIVE PRACTICES
New Heritage Approaches

This session will reflect on innovative practices in heritage economics.

This session will reflect on innovative practices in heritage economics. Since the beginning of modern conservation, the protection and preservation of tangible heritage still justifies itself on the basis of cultural values considered as intrinsic values (values that things have inherently, for what they are, or as an end). But during its evolution, heritage conservation has faced more challenges, partly because of the successful addition of heritage sites, monuments, and buildings that require additional financial means, partly because of the threatening environment of urbanization, rural exodus, and climate change. These challenges have been so great that protection and preservation of cultural heritage today cannot be justified anymore on the sole basis of intrinsic cultural values. As a consequence, intrinsic values may become one means among other cultural values that may be intermediary values to achieve overarching goals. A new paradigm of conservation based not only on what heritage stands for, but on what heritage contributes to achieve.

This session aims to reflect on that new paradigm, and to the contribution of heritage economics to it, by showing evidence for innovative practices. Synchronizing values and goals, cultural significance and sustainable development, means and ends of conservation, requires to activate pluri-disciplinary techniques at every step of the conservation process (documenting, planning, restoring, monitoring), and to do so with the help of innovative models in terms of governance, partnership, financing and decision-making.

MODERATOR Ruba Saleh (Palestine/Italy)

SPEAKERS

Alessio Re (Italy) – Topic: Innovative schemes for economic investment on cultural heritage

Christer Gustafson (Sweden) – Topic: Cultural heritage and innovation – smart heritage-based development strategies

Donovan Rypkema (USA) – Topic: Beyond tourism: the other economic impacts of heritage conservation

Luigi Fusco Girard (Italy) – Topic: Towards impacts assessment framework for circular “human-centered” adaptive reuse of cultural heritage

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HERITAGE IN LARGE METROPOLISES: EMERGENT APPROACHES
New Heritage Approaches
HERITAGE IN LARGE METROPOLISES: EMERGENT APPROACHES
New Heritage Approaches

Preparing metropolises for pandemics: introducing sanitary challenges, coping with the New Urban Agenda and reconciling Nature, Culture.

The twentieth-century metropolises face diverse planning and management challenges concerning their capacity to project solutions for the contemporary challenges and demands and for future ones that allow transformations while at the same time, valuing and reconciling Nature, Culture, history and continuity.

The ongoing challenges are many: accelerated and unsustainable urban expansion, impoverishment and invisibility of peripheries, socio-environmental conflicts aggravated by the effects of climate changes, predatory and unsustainable tourism, a gradual depletion of relations between society and nature and between different social segments.

The Covid-19 pandemic has given rise to uncertainties concerning the future of the metropolises as being the only solution for urbanization. Considering this scenario, this session will examine how to prepare the metropolises to face new sanitary challenges, to cope with the New Urban Agenda and to reconcile Nature, Culture, permanencies and changes?

PROGRAM

Opening: Vera Tangari, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Setting the scene:

Pedro Ortiz (Spain): Shaping the metropolis

Francesco Bandarin (Italy): Global Report and survey

Survey questions:

Jae Heon Choi (Korea): Case study Seoul

Antonella Contin (Italy): Case study Milan

Michael Turner (Israel) and Eric Hubyrechts (France): Linking the research and practice. The dialogue between universities and planning authorities

Ksenia Mezenina (Russian Federation): Case study Moscow

Geci Karuri-Sebina (South Africa): Case study Johannesburg

The way forward:

Rafael Forero (Colombia): UNHabitat and the metro-hubs

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HERITAGE OF THE MARGINLIZED
New Heritage Approaches
HERITAGE OF THE MARGINLIZED
New Heritage Approaches

Stories on people that are marginalized from official heritage narratives, and that have struggled and striven for recognition and acknowledgement of their heritage.

Official heritage of national states often gives priority to the ideal of national inclusive citizenship, and responsibilities and duties as defined by leaders, laws, constitutions and political regimes. In former colonial countries – the post-colonial states – heritage is also recruited to emphasize the struggle for national liberation, the national heroes, usually male, and the benefits of being free from colonial powers. In all these contexts, post-colonial or otherwise, the nation is emphasized over the differences and multiple histories in terms of such aspects as gender, race, class, ethnicity or indigeneity.

Sometimes the marginalized contributions to culture and heritage, such as from women, are acknowledged in passing in exhibitions, cultural performances, and in the arts and sciences. More often, the history and culture associated with women and that of other marginalized groups are erased or not fully recognized. These include those divided, segmented and discriminated against by race, ethnicity and religion, as well as Indigenous peoples, the poor, migrants, lesbians, gays and other genders, the youth, the aged, and the mentally, physically and medically disabled.

Oftentimes these marginalized groups are written out of history, considered less than human or of no importance, and deserve no mention or valorization in terms of heritage. Other times they are minimally acknowledged for their crafts but are disregarded for the skillful and penetrating art or performances that are disruptive and a commentary on societal needs, desires and wants. In some contexts, they have been given full recognition, but experts are their voices, rather than themselves. On other occasions, recognition is only offered when they themselves, as a community, organize themselves and demand such recognition of their festivals, their arts and crafts, their languages and their culture and history. Sometimes they simply have to make their heritage sites, festivals, exhibitions, and performances for themselves. Yet these are all struggles for the recognition and valorization of the heritage of the marginalized.

In this session of the New Approaches to Heritage series, we focus on those that have been marginalized from official heritage narratives, and that have struggled and striven for recognition and acknowledgement of their heritage.

MODERATOR: Shahid Vawda (South Africa)

SPEAKERS

Ugo Guarnacci (Italy/Belgium), Visiting Fellow, School of Politics, Economics and International Relations, University of Reading (UK)
Topic: Heritage at risk: who is sensitive about gender-sensitive Approaches for disaster & conflict management in Indonesia?

Tokie Brown (Nigeria), CEO/Founder Merging Ecologies, Women Fund Homes and Co Founder BelleLavie Corp
Topic: UBUNTU: I am because we are. However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.

Ro’otsitsina (Tsitsina) Xavante (Brazil), from the Xavante People, political coordinator of Namunkurá Associação Xavante/NAX, defender of Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples, with collaborative work in the Indigenous Women’s Movement
Topic: Diversity of Indigenous Women

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DECOLONIZING HERITAGE
New Heritage Approaches
DECOLONIZING HERITAGE
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Heritage values and narratives that were marginalized by current approaches to the past and present, and how they can be identified and give deeper and universally relevant heritage narrative to World Heritage Sites.

Disciplines associated with heritage, including history, archaeology and anthropology, are rooted in western academic concepts and paradigms. While these serve the contexts in which they developed, there is a need to examine how heritage and the past are accessed, interpreted, understood and used in other contexts. This is of particular relevance to World Heritage. Do the criteria used to determine the Outstanding Universal Values of World Heritage Sites truly reflect a universal understanding of heritage, or are they the legacy of colonial perceptions of what is heritage-worthy? How can experts and civil society stakeholders approach World Heritage in new ways that encompass the multiplicity of perspectives and values?

This session will deepen the debate around how heritage values and narratives that have been marginalized by current approaches to the past and present, can be identified and given a platform and place in creating a richer, deeper and universally relevant heritage narrative to World Heritage Sites.

MODERATOR: Jonathan Sharfman (South Africa)

SPEAKERS

Ciraj Rassool (South Africa)

Robert Parthesius (Netherlands)

Pascall Taruvinga (South Africa)

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NATURE AND THE NEW FRONTIERS – BUILDING RESILIENCE
New Heritage Approaches
NATURE AND THE NEW FRONTIERS – BUILDING RESILIENCE
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Living cultural and natural heritage linkages and the uncertainty of the permanence of these areas as World Heritage designation.

This session aims to discuss what is beyond protected areas and their governance in face of the UNESCO required criteria for recognition of World Heritage mixed sites. From this perspective, this session will discuss living cultural and natural heritage linkages and the uncertainty of the permanence of these areas as World Heritage.

MODERATOR: Bruno Coutinho (Brazil)

SPEAKERS

Siyu Qin, Doctoral Researcher in Conservation Biogeography at the Geography Department of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Rachel Golden Kroner (US), Environmental Governance Fellow, Conservation International
Topic: Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement as a threat to iconic protected areas: implications of impermanence for world heritage sites.

Candido Pastor (Bolivia), Technical Manager for Conservation International-Bolivia.

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CULTURAL LANDSCAPE AND THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST: A CRITICAL REFLECTION
New Heritage Approaches
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE AND THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST: A CRITICAL REFLECTION
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Deepening the debate on the cultural landscape concept.

Cultural landscapes were included as a unique category of sites being the “works of man or the combined works of nature and man… which are of outstanding universal value” at the sixteenth session of the World Heritage Committee held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, in December 1992. Next year we will celebrate 30 years of cultural landscapes in the Operational Guidelines.

To date, 114 properties with 5 transboundary properties (1 delisted property) have been included as cultural landscapes. In this regard, the debate will reflect on the definition of this category and its application in the field, providing the opportunity to highlight different visions and consider diverse experiences.

Thus, the goal of this session is to deepen the debate on the cultural landscape concept, bringing forward different points of view, including the discussion on the pertinence, the achievements and management challenges.

MODERATOR: Mônica Bahia Schlee (Brazil)

SPEAKERS

Patricia O’Donnell (US), Patricia M. O’Donnell, PLA, FASLA, AICP, F. US/ICOMOS, Founder of the Heritage Landscapes LLC.
Topic: Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities for Today and into the Future

Maya Ishizawa (Peru), independent heritage specialist.
Topic: Machu Picchu, A World Mixed Cultural And Natural Heritage… and a Cultural Landscape?

Monica Luengo (Spain), Landscape Architect & Heritage Consultant. Hon. member ISC Cultural Landscapes ICOMO-IFLA.
Topic: Re-Considering Cultural Landscapes in the Frame of the World Heritage Convention

Vanessa Bello (Brazil), Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, FAU PUCC – Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, BRAZIL. Coordinator of the Brazilian Scientific Committee of Cultural Landscapes – ICOMOS Brazil.
Topic: World Cultural Landscapes: a Critical Reflection

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MODERN, CONTEMPORARY, AND FUTURE HERITAGE
New Heritage Approaches
MODERN, CONTEMPORARY, AND FUTURE HERITAGE
New Heritage Approaches

Questioning the “authorized heritage discourses” through defining meaning and authenticity of modern heritage or contemporary heritage.

Modern heritage has been on the agenda of preservation policies since the 1980s, gaining strength in the 1990s. Despite many advances, the time barrier remains a challenge to think about the practices and the meaning of this heritage for contemporary times. Intervention, authenticity and authorship are themes that need to be discussed in order to carry out preservation policies and practices that contemplate modern and contemporary heritage in its complexity and in an inclusive way. For the future and the heritage of future generations, it will be increasingly important to consider the agendas of local identity, social participation and sustainability, questioning the “authorized heritage discourses”.

MODERATOR: Flavia Brito Nascimento (Brazil)

SPEAKERS

Cornelius Holtorf (Sweden), Professor of Archaeology. UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University. Director of the Graduate School in Contract Archaeology (GRASCA).
Topic: Which heritage will benefit future generations?

Nivaldo Vieira de Andrade Junior (Brazil), ex-president of the Brazilian Institute of Architects – IAB (2017-2020), Professor of Architecture, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA).
Topic: Challenges for the conservation of modern, contemporary and future heritage in Brazil.

Umberto Bonomo (Chile), Director of the Centro del Patrimonio Cultural and associate professor at the School of Architecture of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Topic: The common space. The future of common space in modern housing.

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INTEGRITY AND AUTHENTICITY
New Heritage Approaches
INTEGRITY AND AUTHENTICITY
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Discuss the concepts of authenticity and integrity to better frame their use in the definition and implementation of conservation strategies.

Authenticity and/or integrity are conditions that should be met by a World Heritage property to be deemed of Outstanding Universal Value (OG 78), as well as the more general requirement for the characteristics of a monument or an urban ensemble, but also a natural site to be considered as a “heritage” feature.

However, the definitions provided by the Operational Guidelines open the way to different and often contradictory interpretations that lead to questions about their appropriateness and relevance not only for the purpose of inscription in the WH List but, more in general, for the definition of conservation and management strategies. As for authenticity, for instance, should the status of heritage be denied to the many reconstructions of archaeological remains or historic buildings or districts that have been implemented throughout history and in all countries without the basis of complete and detailed documentation and only on conjecture? For many parts of the Roman Forum, the palace of Cnossos, the Carcassonne of Viollet-le-Duc, are they not “authentic” in a way? What about many sites of earthen architecture that are continuously rebuilt on the basis of local know-how and traditions?

As for integrity, the definition and inscription criteria provided by the OG are more clear and effective. They take into consideration the “natural” heritage with accurate recommendations about the criteria to be used for the different categories of heritage.

Thus, the aim of this session is to review and discuss the concepts of authenticity and integrity to better frame their use in the definition and implementation of conservation strategies, particularly for living heritage such as historic cities, or natural heritage under heavy environmental changes and development pressures.

MODERATOR: Daniele Pini (Italy)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Dina Bakhoum (Egypt)
Topic: Reflections on the ‘authentic’ and the ‘modern’ of architectural and urban palimpsests: case studies from Egypt

Rosane Piccollo (Brazil)
Topic: Integrity and authenticity: a controversial pair in the world heritage system

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HERITAGE PROTECTION AND REVITALIZATION IN URBAN PLANNING SYSTEMS
New Heritage Approaches
HERITAGE PROTECTION AND REVITALIZATION IN URBAN PLANNING SYSTEMS
New Heritage Approaches

New urban planning approaches where heritage is not a simple sectoral component but permeates the whole urban development strategy in a perspective of sustainability and equity.

In order to preserve the heritage and create living, inclusive and integrated sites, a territorial, urban, and landscape perspective is needed, articulating nature and culture, tangible and intangible dimensions, (re)interpreting values and attributes through proactive strategies of conservation and revitalization that are fully integrated in the planning tools. This is particularly important for urban heritage, since historic cities are generally affected by pressures and processes of change that may not only disrupt the urban fabric but may also affect local communities through processes of gentrification or marginalization.

Sustainable strategies should include awareness-raising and social participation as instruments to enhance emancipation, citizenship, and democratization of decision-making processes. At the same time, planning tools should integrate protection measures for the urban fabric beyond the conventional (and often ineffective) system of “listing” the monuments, whilst promoting revitalization actions to ensure an enhanced functional and economic role of historic cities in the wider urban and regional context.

As stated by the Historic Urban Landscape Recommendation, the integration of heritage conservation in territorial and urban planning policies and tools, with a broad participatory perspective, is crucial to ensure appropriate and inclusive heritage management. New approaches to heritage should lead to new urban planning approaches where heritage is not a simple sectoral component but permeates the whole urban development strategy in a perspective of sustainability and equity.

MODERATOR: Daniele Pini (Italy)

SPEAKERS

Jyoti Hosagrahar (India), Deputy-Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, UNESCO
Topic: UNESCO 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape: 10th anniversary

Bonnie Burnham (US), President, Cultural Heritage Finance Alliance (CHiFA)
Topic: Creating a heritage-led investment process

Eric Huybrecht (France), architect and urban/regional planner, Manager of International Affairs of the Institute Paris Region

Rusudan Mirzikashvili (Georgia), HERILAND ESR, Newcastle University
Topic: Heritage and Landscape: What Role in Governance?

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ORGANIZING HERITAGE ENTITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
New Heritage Approaches
ORGANIZING HERITAGE ENTITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
New Heritage Approaches

Institutional design, financial business models and human resource management affecting conservation/development processes.

The session will focus on three important issues that are rarely addressed, but are causing serious problems in the implementation of projects and activities. First, there are complex elements concerning the institutional design affecting organizations that are involved in the conservation/development process. Here one dangerous misunderstanding (sort of a misplaced hidden assumption) is that we are dealing with individual, autonomous entities. On the contrary, we are dealing with elaborate multilateral management systems in which accountability of many of the lead players could be quite alien to their administrative traditions.

Second, financial business models characterizing heritage organizations and projects tend to be blurred and opaque, partly because of ‘political’ solutions that are in place, partly because of lack of knowledge of involved actors. The relationship between financial business models and potential business plans is a critical element to improve the degree of organizational and financial sustainability of these organizations.

Finally, human resource management seems to be one of the less understood aspects in heritage policy-making, with serious implications, given the knowledge-intensive nature of heritage organizations. Paradoxically, while the need to move from object-oriented to people-oriented organizations has had some impact in recent years with reference to visitors and other interest groups, the focus on staffing and effective outsourcing is still marginal in many contexts.

MODERATOR: Luca Zan (Italy)

SPEAKERS

Daniel Shoup Principal, Archaeological/Historical Consultants (US)Topic: Byzantine planning: the danger of management in Istanbul

Jane Thompson, Founder and team leader of ‘Instead Heritage’ (UK)Topic: Institutional frameworks for cultural and natural heritage: Italy as a window on worldwide trends.

Maria Lusiani, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)Topic: How does it work, really? Unearthing the underlying ‘business model’ of heritage sitesb

Luca Zan, Department of Management, University of Bologna (Italy)Topic: Heritage discourse in China and great archaeological site: from intention to realized policies, through unintended consequences

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NEW APPROACHES IN HERITAGE ECONOMICS
New Heritage Approaches
NEW APPROACHES IN HERITAGE ECONOMICS
New Heritage Approaches

Contribution of heritage economics on values and processes of heritage conservation.

How do we revisit values and processes of heritage conservation in a time and in a world where globalization, growing urbanization, market dominance in the economy, environmental issues and climate change, technological transitions (plus the sanitary crisis…) will impact decisions substantially? How do we integrate conservation with inclusion, diversity, participation of local communities, new governance and decision-making processes?

This session will reflect on the contribution of heritage economics to this challenging perspective. At the beginning of the 1980s, the conservation field grew very fast, boosted by the adoption of multiple conventions, charters, guidelines and recommendations, which paved the way for modern conservation, as we know it today. At that time, heritage economics was only considered as a support, mainly through cultural tourism. Sometimes, it was called a constraint to conservation, confusing two aspects: financial costs and sound allocation of economic resources. It was considered as a bonus to cultural policies, rather than a part of them.

Today heritage economics is better accepted as one of the four pillars of sustainable conservation, with a rich literature, full of innovative conceptual and methodological reflections and tools. The session will rely on such scientific contributions, but also on how heritage economics affects decision-making and responsibility for achieving the right balance between conflicting stakes that may arise in the conservation field. New approaches include measures to foster sharing knowledge between disciplines at every step of the conservation process (documenting, planning, restoring, monitoring), and ways to share innovative models in terms of governance, partnership, financing and decision-making.

MODERATOR: Ruba Saleh (Palestine/Italy)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Andy Pratt (UK), Director of Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries, City University of London
Topic: Toward circular governance in the culture and creative economy: learning the lessons from the circular economy and environment

Christian Ost (Belgium), Honorary rector, ICHEC Brussels Management School
Topic: Cultural heritage value chain and innovative business models

David Throsby (Australia), Department of Economics, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109
Topic: Heritage economics 40 years on: a review of developments since the 1980s

Pier Luigi Sacco (Italy), Professor of Cultural Economics, Rectoral Delegate for European Projects and International Networks, IULM University
Topic: Heritage 3.0: a taxonomy of heritage functioning and their relations to regimes of cultural production

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PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES & NEW NARRATIVES IN HERITAGE – THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY
New Heritage Approaches
PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES & NEW NARRATIVES IN HERITAGE – THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY
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Approaches, experiences and tools for including diverse social perspectives and to stimulate strategies that include knowledge, feelings and affections involved in the conservation of World Heritage in the existing geopolitical context.

Historically driven by technical knowledge using criteria based on aesthetic and historical values, the field of heritage has been challenged since the 1960s to think about the place of social values. It is necessary and urgent to examine policies of participation and the authorized heritage discourse, and to consider who can select heritage and for whom it is selected. How to think of more inclusive practices? How do we listen sensitively, with implications for public heritage policies?

One of the challenges and opportunities to build robust strategies to overcome top-down approaches and involve civil society in conservation and preservation of World Heritage Sites is the intertwining of diversity and multiple cultural influences enabled by heritage education.

This session seeks to bring together approaches, experiences and tools for including diverse social perspectives and to stimulate strategies that will include their knowledge, feelings and affections in the existing geopolitical context involved in the conservation of World Heritage.

MODERATOR: Vera Regina Tangari (Brazil)

SPEAKERS

Gert-Jan Burgers (Netherlands), VU University Amsterdam; H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie project Heriland. Cultural heritage and the planning of European Landscapes
Topiv: Rethinking ecomuseology; Title 2: Training critical heritage planners

Hendrik Tieben (Hong Kong), Associate professor and Director of the School of Architecture, Urban Studies and Urban Design at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Topic: New approaches to urban and industrial heritage in Hong Kong

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LIVING HERITAGE: LINKING TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
New Heritage Approaches
LIVING HERITAGE: LINKING TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
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Debating strategies, methods and guidelines that overcome the distinction between tangible and intangible assets.

The changes in societies and their environments call for approaches that increase civil society engagement and appropriation of the World Heritage Sites, as a tool for preservation and conservation and for making them meaningful in people’s lives. In this context, finding ways to unite and integrate tangible and intangible aspects of heritage can be a response to that challenge.

This session proposes a debate about strategies, methods and guidelines needed to overcome the distinction between tangible and intangible assets. It aims to enhance our ability to build a knowledge ecology system to overcome the threats that the sites and the populations in and around them have suffered in the past years.

MODERATOR: Flavia Brito Nascimento (Brazil)

SPEAKERS

Maria Gravari-Barbas (France), Director of the Institute for Research and High Studies on Tourism (Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes Supérieures du TourismeTourisme, IREST) of Paris 1, Sorbonne University
Topic: The difficult task of safeguarding the intangible aspects of historical cities. Challenges and perspectives

Soul Shava (Zimbabwe), Professor of Environmental Education (Education for Sustainable Development), Department of Science and Technology Education, University of South Africa
Topic: Living heritage: linking intangible and tangible cultural heritage from an African perspective

Theresa Williamson (Brazil), Executive Director, Catalytic Communities
Topic: Rio de Janeiro’s favelas as living heritage: intangible to whom?

Fekri Hassan (Egypt), Professor of Cultural Heritage Management and Archaeology, Director, Cultural Heritage Management Program, French University in Egypt, Emeritus Petrie Professor, University College, London
Topic: Heritage for life – Egypt’s living heritage community engagement in re-creating the past project

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MANAGING LANDSCAPE CHANGE: NATURAL, CULTURAL AND INTANGIBLE DIMENSIONS
New Heritage Approaches
MANAGING LANDSCAPE CHANGE: NATURAL, CULTURAL AND INTANGIBLE DIMENSIONS
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Debating the integrative approaches for managing landscape change and conservation - examining natural, cultural, tangible and intangible heritage dimensions.

Conventional sectoral approaches to addressing interconnected social, cultural, environmental, economic and political challenges in heritage conservation are proving inefficient. An alternative is to focus on integrated solutions at a landscape level, applying landscape-based approaches and Nature-Culture linkages.

This session aims to debate integrative approaches for managing landscape change and conservation. In search of more integrative approaches, the session will examine natural, cultural, tangible and intangible heritage dimensions, and address aspects such as the articulation between urban planning and heritage conservation, and emergent lines of research, methods and solutions that link science, policy and practice in multiple scales of application.

MODERATOR: Monica Bahia Schlee (Brazil)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Julia Rey Perez (Spain), Professor at the University of Seville
Topic: The landscape approach to urban heritage management

Paolo Motta (Italy), architect, territorial/urban planner. ICOMOS-CIVVIH/ICTC/ISCES/ SDGWG International Committees Member
Topic: Integrated approach to mitigate urban development & pandemic impacts

Ricardo Riveros (Chile), Professor of Landscape Architecture, Central University of Chile. IFLA AR President
Topic: Heritage and landscape. Challenges from the global, opportunities from the local

Tashka Yawanawa (Brazil), Leader of the Yawanawa People

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LANDSCAPE, TERRITORY, URBAN FABRIC: CHALLENGES, TRENDS AND THE WH CONVENTION
New Heritage Approaches
LANDSCAPE, TERRITORY, URBAN FABRIC: CHALLENGES, TRENDS AND THE WH CONVENTION
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Reviewing heritage strategies for urban development and management in order to solve urban heritage challenges and incorporatning them as a resource for sustainable development.

The 21st century has brought great challenges to contemporary urban planning. Urban contexts vary widely worldwide, from small settlements to metropolises, from walled and colonial cities to modern ones. The concentration of population in cities and the speed of their growth to the detriment of rural areas are phenomena highlighted by various world organizations and specialists. This uncontrolled development largely affects cities with heritage elements and values, the weakest to adapt and survive in this situation, which affects the urban landscape and its surrounding territory. However, in the face of this global demand for urban growth, heritage is revealed on the one hand as an option for an improvement in quality of life and well-being, and, on the other, as a key element of urban, economic and social sustainability.

Therefore, the aim of this session is to review and discuss the most appropriate heritage strategies for urban development and management in order to solve the challenges facing urban heritage today and incorporate them as a resource for sustainable development. In this line, the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) puts on the table fundamental keys in heritage management: interdisciplinarity, the citizen as a protagonist in the decision-making process, and heritage valorization developed from a landscape approach. Fifty years after the launch of the World Heritage Convention, it is time to discuss how the new trends in heritage management can favor urban sustainability. The Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) Recommendation’s 10th anniversary in 2021 is an opportunity to revisit it, debate implementation difficulties and lessons learned, and to compare it to other approaches and methods that deal with urban heritage in different scales and settings at the global level.

MODERATOR: Julia Rey Perez (Spain)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Elizabeth Vines (Australia) OAM, FRAIA, M.ICOMOS, Adjunct Professor, Hong Kong and Deakin Universities
Topic: Urban heritage management – can our treasured historic cities be retained, sustained and prosper into the future?

Francesco Bandarin (Italy), architect and urban planner, specialized in Urban Conservation. Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (2000-2010) and Assistant director-general of UNESCO for Culture (2010-2018).
Topic: Reshaping urban conservation

Kapila Dharmasena Silva (Sri Lanka) Professor, School of Architecture and Design, University of Kansas
Topic: Conserving historic urban landscapes in the Asia-Pacific: present challenges and future trends

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INSTITUTIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES AND METHODOLOGIES
New Heritage Approaches
INSTITUTIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES AND METHODOLOGIES
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Improving processes through policies, learning lessons from communities and mediating between groups with conflicting interests.

Institutional and organizational processes include, but not restricted to, legislative and regulatory measures and monitoring systems aimed at the conservation and management of the tangible and intangible heritage. Traditional and grassroots protection systems should be recognized and reinforced with the same emphasis. Civic engagement tools need to involve a diverse cross section of stakeholders, and empower them to identify key values, develop visions that reflect their diversity, set goals, and agree on actions to safeguard their heritage.

This session aims to provoke an intercultural dialogue on how to improve institutional and organizational processes through formulation and adoption of supporting policies and by learning lessons from the communities. It should also benchmark projects to facilitate mediation and negotiation between groups with conflicting interests.

MODERATOR: Leonardo Castriota (Brazil)

SPEAKERS

Alfredo Conti, Architect, Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)
Topic: The challenge of integrating new approaches at institutional level. A Latin American perspective

Joe King, Director, Partnership and Communication, ICCROM
Topic: Implementation of the World Heritage Convention: managing a property at the international, national, and local levels

Yara Saifi, Associate Professor of Architecture, Al Quds University (Palestine)
Topic: Inspiring approaches: communities strategies towards managing their cultural heritage in areas of conflicts

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HERITAGE CATEGORIES AND A CROSSCUTTING APPROACH AMONG CONVENTIONS
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HERITAGE CATEGORIES AND A CROSSCUTTING APPROACH AMONG CONVENTIONS
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The goal of the session is to test the feasibility of endorsing a multi-convention strategy for World Heritage.

The drafting and adoption of UNESCO’s heritage conventions are the result of perceived threats to heritage resources. This reactive process, focused on individual heritage elements, has resulted in a siloed approach to the application of the various operational guidelines laid out in these conventions. Selected elements of heritage are managed separately and by teams of experts centered on their own areas of competence. This has resulted in management strategies that prioritize some heritage facets above others, thereby excluding components that may resonate deeply with stakeholders. At worst, this approach creates conflict and feelings of disenfranchisement.

This session seeks to identify and debate concepts and mechanisms for applying a cross-convention approach to the identification of World Heritage and an inclusive approach to the management of World Heritage Sites. The goal of the session is to test the feasibility of endorsing a multi-convention strategy for World Heritage.

MODERATOR: Jonathan Sharfman (South Africa)

SPEAKERS

Guo Zhan, Senior Commissioner and researcher, Department of Cultural Heritage Protection/ State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) (P.R. of China)

Harriet Deacon, PhD MSc FRSA, Visiting Research Fellow, Coventry University (UK)

Topic: Beyond world heritage: concepts of culture and heritage in different UNESCO conventions

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REINTERPRETING OUV: THE BALANCE BETWEEN LOCAL & UNIVERSAL VALUES
New Heritage Approaches
REINTERPRETING OUV: THE BALANCE BETWEEN LOCAL & UNIVERSAL VALUES
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New Heritage Approaches
OPENING#2021DEBATE: NEW HERITAGE APPROACHES
New Heritage Approaches
OPENING#2021DEBATE: NEW HERITAGE APPROACHES
New Heritage Approaches

The New Heritage Approaches team in conversation with Francesco Bandarin, Michael Turner, and George Abungu.

SPEAKERS

Francesco Bandarin, architect and urban planner, specialized in Urban Conservation. Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (2000-2010) and Assistant director-general of UNESCO for Culture (2010-2018).

Topic: OWH initiative platform for dialogue and action

Mike Turner, architect, UNESCO Chair holder in Urban Design and Conservation Studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.

Topic: Engaging New Heritage Approaches: Disruptive Innovation

George Abungu, archaeologist and emeritus Director-General, National Museums of Kenya.

Topic: Not for us without us: heritage is people

New Heritage Approaches
STUDENT AND YOUTH GLOBINAR - part 2
New Heritage Approaches
STUDENT AND YOUTH GLOBINAR - part 2
New Heritage Approaches

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COORDINATOR: Jonathan Sharfman

SPEAKERS

Andréia Feitoza de Oliveira, USP, Rio Branco Avenue (Rio de Janeiro): Transformations and permanencies in its urban history (Rio de Janeiro, 1960-1989)

Bianca Tavares Martins, USP, Carioca Street (Rio de Janeiro): urban preservation and social participation (Rio de Janeiro, 1960-1980)

Claudia Muniz, USP, The case of Grota do Bixiga, in São Paulo: intersection between social, cultural and environmental preservation and urban transformation

Mariana Kimie da Silva Nito, USP, The city, the cultural heritage and its surroundings: the role of buffer zones in urban policies

Daiane Romio Duarte, UFSC, Seeking the sacred in natural landscape

Flora Oliveira, USP, Gender and heritage: the case of the Solar da Marquesa de Santos

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STUDENT AND YOUTH GLOBINAR - part 1
New Heritage Approaches
STUDENT AND YOUTH GLOBINAR - part 1
New Heritage Approaches

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COORDINATOR: Jonathan Sharfman

SPEAKERS

Rayna Li, NYUAD and Dhakira Center for Heritage Studies, Assembling fragments of a global past: issues and challenges in Jingdezhen’s path to World Heritage status

Judith Inglavaga Pedros, Pauline David, Betül Mahmure Onaran, University of Bologna, The Porticoes of Bologna – Via Zamboni

Martino Catalani, Francesco De Bonis, Emanuele Nervo, University of Bologna, The Porticoes of Bologna – Treno della Barca

Ana Beatriz Pahor Pereira da Costa, USP, Worker’s housing in the early 20th century and the forgotten narratives in connection to conservation and heritage in the city of São Paulo (Brazil)

Bruna Bacetti Sousa, USP, The complex patrimonialization path of Santa Ifigênia District: discussions, tensions and conflicts over the downtown São Paulo urban space

Julia Savaglia Anversa, USP, Gender and heritage: the case of the Solar da Marquesa de Santos

Marina Chagas Brandão, USP, Heritage as part of the development agenda and PAC-CH in São Paulo: strategies and debates in the 2000s

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ROUNDTABLE ‘NEW NARRATIVES AND INTERPRETATIONS’ – PART I
New Heritage Approaches
ROUNDTABLE ‘NEW NARRATIVES AND INTERPRETATIONS’ – PART I
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SCOPE AND PURPOSES

Urban transformations and unsustainable expansion processes, climate change, predatory tourism, degradation of protected areas, transnational exodus and the consequent generalized exhaustion of relations between society and nature, as well as socio-environmental and armed conflicts, bring new challenges to our collective heritage in the 21st century.

Most contemporary society has chosen urban centers and megacities to live. Urbanization processes had increasingly intensified and, at the same time, created opportunities. They also generated problems, tensions and impacts in different scales and territorial contexts that will need to be faced and overcome in the coming decades.

In view of the multiple environmental and socio-cultural challenges faced in a context of economic crisis deepened by the Covid-19 pandemic, which affect societies in different spheres, the role and meaning of heritage will need to absorb theoretical, conceptual and practical demands and renewed agendas to reflect on the existing urban social structures beyond the consolidated concepts that traditionally define the relations between society and its traditional historical groups and its interface with the environment and the landscape.

New approaches to heritage need to ask why and for whom heritage sites are protected, providing meaningful narratives for users to ensure their preservation. Gender, ethnicity, race and income are key aspects of diversity and inequality in the current geopolitical context to be considered.

In this way, it becomes relevant to create spaces for dialogue and exchange of knowledge and sharing of experiences, training and work opportunities for young professionals in the countries of Latin America and Lusophone Africa.

The spoken and written language, in addition to the form of communication, is an important cultural component. Portuguese is now a language spoken by around 250 million people worldwide. Although a significant part of scientific production and works related to UNESCO and World Heritage are carried out in English, if we want to have an effort of local dialogue and reflection on strategies and needs related to new approaches to heritage in the Portuguese-speaking world, we also need to do it in Portuguese.

In this sense, the intention is to interweave common concepts and methods in the context of diversity and cultural influences between the Portuguese-speaking countries of Latin America and Africa and the search for awareness, insertion and training of diverse social extracts in the conservation of heritage.

PROGRAMM

  1. General context of the #2021Debates – Monica Bahia Schlee

  2. New Approaches to Heritage: listening, connections and interdisciplinary dialogues – Vera Tangari, Rubens de Andrade, Monica Bahia Schlee

  3. New narratives and interpretations: introduction and regional context – Albino Jopela and Rafael Winter Ribeiro

  4. Hamilton Jair Fernandes – Cidade Velha, Cabo Verde

    Claudio Zunguene – Ilha de Moçambique, Moçambique

    Ziva Domingos – Mbaza Kongo, Angola

    Bruno Coutinho – Paraty e Ilha Grande, Brasil

QUESTIONS FOR THE DEBATE

First block: question for all the speakers

1. What are the main impacts and challenges that the collective heritage and especially the world heritage (natural, cultural and intangible) face in your country today?

2. What has been the heritage conservation approach, policy and practices adopted locally?

Second block: questions to be chosen by the speakers

3. Does the division between culture and nature still make sense in heritage conservation?

4. How to unite and integrate tangible and intangible aspects of heritage?

Third block: questions to be chosen by the speakers

5. How to adopt new functions, including social and economic functions aimed at new labor markets related to heritage preservation and conservation?

6. What strategies can be adapted or proposed for the conservation of heritage with vulnerable communities surrounding heritage property?

Forth block: questions to be chosen by the speakers

7. How to reconcile heritage conservation as an identity value for local populations, with its global value for civilization and as a driving force for sustainable development in Latin American countries, including Brazil, and the countries of America Lusophone?

8. What alternatives and possibilities would you recommend for the conservation of heritage in the next 50 years?

The speakers are invited to choose which questions they prefer to answer from blocks 2, 3 and 4 and the order of the speeches will be accommodated according to their choices. The purpose of these questions is to serve as a guide to the speeches of the speakers, to which we ask to kindly answer them in the context of the case study addressed by each one.

We kindly ask you to respond to this invitation indicating the availability to participate in the round table and also indicating the questions you would like to answer in your speeches, relating them to your case study. Questions not chosen will be removed from the agenda.

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ORGANISERS

Mônica Bahia Schlee
Co-Coordinator

Daniele Pini
Co-Coordinator

Vera Tangari
Co-Convener

Jonathan Sharfman
Co-Convener

Rubens de Andrade
Co-Convener

Rafael Winter
Co-Convener

Flavia Brito Nascimento
Co-Convener

Luca Zan
Co-Convener

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AFFILIATED INSTITUTES:

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