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This session will reflect on innovative practices in heritage economics.
Preparing metropolises for pandemics: introducing sanitary challenges, coping with the New Urban Agenda and reconciling Nature, Culture.
Stories on people that are marginalized from official heritage narratives, and that have struggled and striven for recognition and acknowledgement of their heritage.
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.
Living cultural and natural heritage linkages and the uncertainty of the permanence of these areas as World Heritage designation.
Deepening the debate on the cultural landscape concept.
Questioning the “authorized heritage discourses” through defining meaning and authenticity of modern heritage or contemporary heritage.
Discuss the concepts of authenticity and integrity to better frame their use in the definition and implementation of conservation strategies.
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.
Institutional design, financial business models and human resource management affecting conservation/development processes.
Contribution of heritage economics on values and processes of heritage conservation.
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.
Debating strategies, methods and guidelines that overcome the distinction between tangible and intangible assets.
Debating the integrative approaches for managing landscape change and conservation - examining natural, cultural, tangible and intangible heritage dimensions.
Reviewing heritage strategies for urban development and management in order to solve urban heritage challenges and incorporatning them as a resource for sustainable development.
Improving processes through policies, learning lessons from communities and mediating between groups with conflicting interests.
The goal of the session is to test the feasibility of endorsing a multi-convention strategy for World Heritage.
The New Heritage Approaches team in conversation with Francesco Bandarin, Michael Turner, and George Abungu.
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
General context of the #2021Debates – Monica Bahia Schlee
New Approaches to Heritage: listening, connections and interdisciplinary dialogues – Vera Tangari, Rubens de Andrade, Monica Bahia Schlee
New narratives and interpretations: introduction and regional context – Albino Jopela and Rafael Winter Ribeiro
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.