TOPIC

This session explores alternative methods of raising awareness to global heritage. The current listing procedures are caught in the politics of nation-states and reflect their power to canonize heritage. We seek instead an active engine that perpetually identifies meaningful sites for people around the world. This session turns to architectural pedagogy and new areas and modes of documentation to seek knowledge that goes beyond the boundaries of the state and constantly challenge and expand the list of heritage sites, and consequently, the histories they conjure.

We aim focusing on the acts of observing, inquiring, and networking that are necessary to identify sites that are constituted as historical resources, that are recognized as carrying attributes that amount to cultural heritage. The session raises questions about the potential of innovative documentation techniques and global histories networks to constantly identify new inventory of sites that escape institutional attention as a result of neglect, conflict, poverty and racism.

MODERATOR: Prof. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan - Associate Professor of history and theory at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

SPEAKERS

Prof. Uta Pottgiesser - Professor of Heritage & Technology in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology.

Prof. Mark Jarzombek - Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture in MIT.

Prof. Stephen Fai - Director the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) at Carleton University Research Centre (CURC).

Katie Graham - Ph.D. candidate in the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism in the Faculty of Engineering and Design, Carleton University, Canada