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Be creative with cultural heritage! 13-15 March.

HeritageHack: in Idrija to tackle the challenges of cultural heritage!

From the 13th to the 15th March, in Idrija (Slovenia), the HeritageHack will take place. It is a 3-day hackathon for cultural Heritage, financed by European Commission and the Council of Europe, and organized by Idrija 2020 Association.

This Association was founded in 2012 by 5 professionals, highly educated and native to this small town, with the aim to develop youth sector and policies in fields as local strategic development, entrepreneurship, revitalisation of heritage; the mission was to develop the municipality of Idrija into a youth-friendly municipality, that attracting the young and bringing people together.

Idrija 2020 co-founded the ID20 Istitution to unite and provide networking opportunities and support at other organisations and individuals in taking one step further in innovation of cultural heritage. The Institute gathers a team of young highly skilled and experienced young professionals in the fields of architecture, business development, design and heritage innovation, united by the idea to transform heritage from a thing of the past to a matter of future.

The activities promoted by ID20 comprise:

HeritageLab: offers a comprehensive step-by-step incubation programme for young people from small and semi-peripheral towns that promote and highlight the local cultural heritage and create new businesses and services, stemming from a new understanding of heritage.
Support for organisations that build on the rich cultural and natural heritage of their surrounding (heritage institutions, municipalities, tourist and non-governmental organisations) in reaching and engaging their customers and partners.
lasting, meaningful design that brings value to existing buildings, to leave the environment better than today.

Idrija 2020 Association and the story connected to it was selected as a good example at the Heritage Days Stories contest that enabled its to receive the financial support of the European Commission and the Council of Europe for organising the HeritageHack.

In this framework started the call addressed to young between 18 and 30 who can participate and compete for a prize of 1000 €.

The call is aimed at creative and inspirational ideas from different sectors, to give answers to the challenges of cultural heritage and to find entrepreneurial ideas for generations to come.

Deadline: 29th February 2020

More info:

Heritagehack leaflet
Location: Inzaghi Shaft Machine House, Vodnikova 3, Idrija, Slovenia
Link to event web page (Slovene): https://www.id20.si/heritagehack/
Facebook event (Slovene): https://www.facebook.com/events/463456994362607/
Association & Institute web page (English): https://www.id20.si/en/home/

celebrating the diversity of European cultural heritage and empowering a participative approach of citizens

Sharing EYCH project WeAre #EuropeForCulture

A ceremony and an exhibition on 6-7 February 2020 at the House of European History in Brussels marked the “formal” conclusion of the WeAre#EuropeForCulture project, financed in the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, which realized a series of inclusive and participative pop-up exhibitions across 2019 in various European cities, to celebrate the diversity of European cultural heritage and to empower citizens in a more participative approach to cultural heritage.

Download the Booklet of WeAre#EuropeForCulture with photos and stories from the project’s events! PDF, 6 Mb.

The project coordinators Fred Truyen, Antonella Fresa and Sofie Taes were received by the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture and Education, Youth and Sport Ms. Mariya Gabriel who expressed kind words and congratulations for the active engagement in the WeAre#EuropeForCulture project, “making sure that cultural heritage is accessible to all people”.

During the event at the House of European History, a ceremony awarded some very special guests: participants from all over Europe who took part in the realization of the local pop up exhibitions. Among them, Szilvia Rebeka Toth from Budapest, Yoana Borislavova Ilieva from Sofia accompained by her mother Gergana Petrova Dimitrova and sign language interpreter Slavina Lozanova; Pertti Stenman from Finland; Maria Àngels Palahí with his son Marc Oliveras from Girona; Vasarė Mikalkevičiūtė and her mother Jūratė Mikalkevičienė from Vinius; Yiotis Ttofis Kyriakou from Cyprus; in representation of the Basel event Vera Chiquet and Peter Fornaro from the University of Basel; Myrthe Vinck, Marie-Aline Geurts and Kato Debeuckelaere in representation the Leuven event; in representation of Pisa event Susanna Capannini and the director of the Museum of Graphics Alessandro Tosi.

Presentations:
Antonella Fresa (PDF, 2 Mb)
Sofie Taes (PDF, 12 Mb)

Videos about the pop-up exhibitions:

EU project to better preserve areas of cultural heritage from hazards and risks

The ARCH project to make historical areas more resilient

ARCH is an European funded project led by Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS (Germany) with participation of four European municipalities (Bratislava, Camerino, Hamburg, Valencia), research scientists, city network ICLEI and standardisation organisation DIN.

Its purpose is providing unified, collaborative approaches for disaster risk reduction of historic areas with regard to climate change-related and other natural hazards.

The project, that aims to better preserve areas of cultural heritage, will develop a disaster risk management framework to improve the resilience of historic areas to natural hazards.
It will focus on the cities of Bratislava, Camerino, Hamburg and Valencia; it will co-create tools to help these cities save their cultural heritage from hazards and risks associated with the effects of climate change.

Camerino (Italy) was an important medieval city and has a rich and prestigious historic town centre. It was hit by devastating earthquake in 2016 that caused serious damage. Camerino is also at risk of hydrogeological events and heavy snow.

Hamburg (Germany): here the ARCH project will focus on the UNESCO World Heritage site and the updating of the management plan and monitoring system of the Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District, in particular on present and potential damages caused by natural hazards, like flooding, heavy rain events and changes in the tidal differentials.

The heritage of Bratislava (Slovakia) includes a medieval town centre with architectural, monumental, and archaeological, as well as natural heritage. The mainly risks are from heat waves, drought, fluvial and pluvial flooding, erosion, and other extreme weather events.

The research of ARCH in Valencia (Spain) will focus mainly in its historical agricultural region Huerta analizing its dual role:
• region who soffers the climate change: to know the impact help to draw resilience strategies.
• region that helps mitigate the effects of the climate change in the city.

The main results of Arch can be summarized in these points:
• Disaster risk management and resilience assessment framework for historic areas
• Data capturing and information management.
• Simulation models to give decision-makers a deeper understanding of the potential Hazard that impacts the historic areas.
• Risk-oriented vulnerability assessment.
• production of a collaborative, web-based disaster risk management platform to help local authorities create and implement sustainable protection and reconstruction strategies.
• Resilience options inventory: a collection of measures and pathways to build resilience will be provided, methods of assessing their usefulness and options for how to finance them.

Further information: https://savingculturalheritage.eu/

Kiev (Ukraine), until 29 February 2020

Ukraine WOW, a unique interactive exhibition-trip around the biggest European country

Where: a huge renovated area of cargo terminal at the Central Railway Station, right in the center of Kyiv.

ph. Veronika Lutska courtesy of GresTodorchuk PR

“Ukraine WOW” is an opportunity to find out over 1000 interesting facts about Ukraine.

The large interactive exhibition is located in a huge renovated area of cargo terminal at the Central Railway Station, right in the center of Kyiv. An unusual for Ukraine way combination of VR, art installations, large scale infographics as well as rail engines, get into a carriage and feel traveling through Ukraine, have a bird view look of the most picturesque places, hear the sounds of Ukraine like wind of a seashore.

3 reasons to visit “Ukraine WOW”

To see unique exhibits.

The last self-portrait of Kazimir Malevich, sculpture of Alexander Archipenko, 10 of 14 letters of the “Ukrainian Alphabet” by Heorhiy Narbut, the first book published in Ukraine – “The Apostle” by Ivan Fedorov (1574), baroque Royal Doors (XVIII century), silver hryvnias of Kyivan Rus’, unique Ukrainian ceramics.

To do some travelling in virtual reality.

Take a trip through the endless Fishing Bridge, fly over the Synevyr Lake and the tract Cascades, see Kyiv from the top of the monumental sculpture Motherland (The Motherland monument is the highest monumental sculpture in Europe. Opened in 1981, it stands at a height of 102 meters), take a train ride in the driver’s cabin, walk around the restored Nevytske Castle and see inside the “Nine”, the largest blast furnace in Europe. Furthermore, to clean the compartment with the help of Kinect technology and make a voice-over for the cartoon about outstanding Ukrainians.

To see amazing installations.

The heart of Ukraine that beats faster when you’re around; hand-painted pink wagon where wishes and dreams find voices; wall of 100 kilograms of amber; installation of Ukrainian yin-yang – coal and salt; “Khata-Mazanka” house with reproduced drawings by primitivist-artist Polina Rayko; Tunnel of Love; the bottom of the Black Sea; bottomless cave, 12-meter diorama and more.

VR to see the reconstructed ancient castles, photo courtesy of GresTodorchuk PR

3 interesting facts about Ukraine

Ukraine is the largest country in Europe.

At 233,013 square miles, Ukraine is 2,000 square miles larger than mainland France, 50,000 square miles larger than Spain, and 200,000 square miles larger than Germany.

Ukrainian civilizations date back to 4800 B.C.

The Trypillian and Scythian civilizations thrived in the land where Ukraine is today. At their peak in the 7th century B.C., the Scythians actively traded with civilizations in lands as far away as China, Persia, Egypt, and Greece.

Ukraine’s ties to Western Europe span more than a 1,000 years.

The daughter of Grand Prince Yaroslav, Anna, became the Queen Consort of France in 1051. Anna was highly educated and introduced Eastern culture to the Franks, paving the way for relationships between medieval Ukraine and Western Europe for centuries.

Installation Heart of Ukraine, photo courtesy of GresTodorchuk PR

Exhibition website: http://ukrainewow.com

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/573940603461952/?ti=icl

UNCHARTED - Understading, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture

The UNCHARTED value of the culture, a new EU project!

The 1st February started a new EU project, UNCHARTED, focused on the valuation practices of the actors involved in cultural life.
UNCHARTED is a four years project which responds to the H2020 “Transformations” call: The societal value of culture and the impact of cultural policies in Europe.

Coordinated by the University of Barcelona with the participation of experts who covers a plurality of fields, the UNCHARTED consortium comprises 9 academic partners and one SME. The academic team assembles a plural group of social scientists from several European regions (Spain, Portugal, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Norway) with a large experience in participating and leading European research projects.

UNCHARTED aims to define the social values associated with culture, their configuration and the political impulse that these values could deliver to the society. The main objectives are:
1. to provide a broader vision of the value of culture in Europe
2. to identify and contextualize the emergence and configuration of cultural values in Europe
3. to co-create new conceptual and methodological tools to understand, evaluate, measure and improve statistical data for capturing the plurality of values of culture
4. to give tools and systematic guidelines for the reorientation of cultural policy in a pluralistic sense.

In order to achieve these objectives, the work has been divided into eight work packages:
WP 1: Understanding the societal value of culture
WP 2: Identifying the emergence of values of culture
WP 3: Measuring and imagining
WP 4: Analyzing political intervention and impact
WP 5: Experimental demonstrations.
WP6: Communication and Dissemination
WP 7: Project Management
WP 8: Ethics requirements
UNCHARTED partners will meet for kicking off all the activities on Friday 7th February, in Paris.
This event will be kindly hosted by the University of Paris 8 that is partner of the project.
Further information: UNCHARTED website

Understading, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture

UNCHARTED: a new EU project responding to the H2020 “Transformations” call.

The 7th February will take place in Paris the first meeting to kick off all activities of the new EU project UNCHARTED.
This is a four years project Coordinated by the University of Barcelona, focused on the valuation practices of the actors involved in cultural life.
It aims to define the social values associated with culture, their configuration and the political impulse that these values could deliver to the society.

These values will be studied in four fundamental arenas of cultural practice:

cultural participation in live arts and culture;
cultural participation through media;
cultural production and heritage management;
cultural administration.

The main objectives of the project are:
1. to provide a broader vision of the value of culture in Europe
2. to identify and contextualize the emergence and configuration of cultural values in Europe
3. to co-create new conceptual and methodological tools to understand, evaluate, measure and improve statistical data for capturing the plurality of values of culture
4. to give tools and systematic guidelines for the reorientation of cultural policy in a pluralistic sense.

The UNCHARTED Project is multidisciplinary to address a wide range of aspects and perspectives of the plural value of culture in different contexts and sectors.

Its consortium comprises 10 partners, 9 of them are academic and one is a SME successfully active for many years in the sector:
1. Universitat de Barcelona (Coordination)
2. Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest
3. University of Coimbra
4. University of Bologna
5. Telemark Research Institute
6. CNRS
7. University of Porto
8. Goldsmiths, University of London
9. University Paris 8
10. Promoter srl

The activity is organized into eight work packages:

WP 1: Understanding the societal value of culture
WP 2: Identifying the emergence of values of culture
WP 3: Measuring and imagining
WP 4: Analyzing political intervention and impact
WP 5: Experimental demonstrations.
WP6: Communication and Dissemination
WP 7: Project Management
WP 8: Ethics requirements

Further information: https://uncharted-culture.eu/

Next stop: Malmö Museum, in Malmö, Sweden from February 15 to June 7, 2020

Anthropocene, a multimedia exhibition that investigates the impact of human footprint on the Earth

Text by Caterina Sbrana.

Bologna, January 4.

Welcome to MAST Foundation (Arts, Experience and Technology), an international cultural and philanthropic institution that focuses on art, technology and innovation.

Welcome to Anthropocene, a multimedia exploration of the human footprint on Earth. For the first time in Europe an exhibition investigating the impact of man on our planet. 7 months of extension brought thousands of visitors to MAST. Anthropocene is an artistic, technological and human experience.

The photo at the entrance of the exhibition shows the work in the marble quarries of Carrara (ph. F. Sbrana)

The exhibition, whose next stop will be at the Malmö Museum, in Malmö, Sweden from February 15 to June 7, 2020, uses various expressive mediums: photographs, large-scale high-resolution murals, combining state-of-the-art photography and film techniques, film installations, augmented reality installations that recreate realistic-looking, near-to-scale 3D photorealistic models, on smartphones and tablets.

My first impression was to feel good. I felt like I was in a comfort zone and reason cannot be constituted by the dramatic photographs displayed, but by finding me among people with the same desire to know what Anthropocene Era represents. Each of those present was aware of the disasters that man is creating with his own hands, through urbanization, industrialization, mining, oceans acidification, climate change. The second impression has been an assessment on the involvement that interactive exhibitions have on visitors.

Symbol of the app AVARA

I felt, in the silence, in the words pronounced in a whisper, a concentration of emotions that the images, realized also through a sophisticated technology, determined on the visitors. I first downloaded for free on the Google Play the app AVARA on my smartphone and I began visiting the four sections of the exhibition.

Thanks to the app AVARA you can activate the film showing the felling of dangerous trees, in Cathedral Grove forest, in Canada (ph. F. Sbrana)

Edward Burtynsky is the author of the 39 photographs in exposition; Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier of the films and immersive augmented reality installations.

In the photographs Burtynsky’s lens captures breakwater barriers, natural resource extraction processes and oil bunkering in the Niger Delta, deforestation, large transport infrastructures, climate change, lithium, copper and coal mines and many different forms of pollution.

Dandora Landfill #3 Plastics Recycling Nairobi Kenya 2016 (photo © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Admira Photography, Milan / Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto)

The films prepared by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier show the Gottard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, mega train transport of coal in Wyoming, USA; felling and explosion of dangerous trees in Cathedral Grove forest on Vancouver Island, Canada; the scale of industry in the mining town of Norilsk, Russia etc..

Nicholas de Pencier and Jennifer Baichwal Vancuver Island British Columbia (Photograph: TJ Watt,
courtesy of Anthropocene Films
Inc. © 2018)

Three HD film installations provide a detailed illustration of a phosphate mine in Florida, a Texas oil refinery and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia which has been subjected to severe coral bleaching. A high-resolution mural strikes me: the extraction process in the marble quarries of Carrara. My maternal grandfather was a “cavatore” (person working in marble quarries). I have seen marble quarries since I was little. Today part of the mountain is no longer there.

Another heartbreaking image is represented by the historic bonfire ordered by President Kenyatta, in Kenya, to burn the stacks of ivory tusks confiscated from poachers in 2016. 105 tonnes of ivory burned to stop illegal trafficking and killing elephants and rhinos. The video of the numerous piles of elephant tusks going up in smoke is something that cannot be forgotten.

Completing the exhibition is the documentary film Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, co-directed by the three artists and narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Alicia Vikander. I can only say that it was an unforgettable experience.

The project debuted in Canada, in September 2018 with the film Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. On September 28, 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa presented simultaneous, complementary exhibitions of Anthropocene, in conjunction with Fondazione MAST, in Bologna, where the exhibition has been presented in the spring of 2019 for its European premiere.

Phosphor Tailings Pond #4 Near Lakeland Florida USA 2012 (photo © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Admira Photography, Milan / Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto)

As I wrote above, the exhibition, which explores the effects of human activity on the planet, forms part of the artistic project of the Fondazione MAST, which, since 2013, has been investigating and reflecting upon the relationship between humankind and work through photo exhibition.

We thank the Fondazione MAST, in Bologna, for all information and photographic materials made available to us.

MAST: Via Speranza 42, Bologna, Italy

www.mast.org/about-us

www.anthropocene.mast.org

https://malmo.se/Uppleva-och-gora/Besoksmal/Malmo-Museer/Utstallningar/Kommande-utstallningar.html

More than two hundreds films document the life in the divided city from 1961 to 1989

The Berlin Wall, a multimedia history

Text by Caterina Sbrana.

A few days after the celebrations of the Berlin Wall fall, in the wake of a renewed interest in the events that characterized Europe and the World after the Second World War, I suggest above all to the youngest, who have to rely on the pages of the history books, the consultation of the portal “The Berlin Wall – A multimedia history”.

As I have had the opportunity to write on other occasions, the internet allows access to a large number of documents that represent important testimonies of social life. In this case, the portal www.the-berlin-wall.com has facilitated the collection and use of scattered documents contained in the archives of radio (Radio Free Berlin) and GDR television. A timeline, that marks events year by year, gives anyone the chance to slide, following a single and unitary thread, 30 years of history that has not only concerned Germany, but the whole world.

The portal was created by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandeburg (rbb), the public service broadcaster for the states of Berlin and Brandenburg and part of the consortium of public broadcasters in Germany (ARD) which I myself had the opportunity to experience on my trip to Berlin last January.

The timeline, which from 1990 descends vertically to 1961, tells the life of the divided Berlin but also the tensions between East and West caused by Cold War in the 1960s.; Berliners from East and West talk about their personal experiences of living with the Wall: how they fled from East to West, how they were separated from their families, how they went about their day-to-day lives in the shadow of the Wall.

Contrary to what happens in West Berlin where the tram gives way to cars, in East Berlin the tram network is expanded. Hundreds of people are waiting for it.

The photographs in the article are all taken from the videos preserved in the archives of Radio Free Berlin (SFB)/rbb, the German Broadcasting Archive (DRA) and GDR television.

As the creators of the site write “two hundred and fifty films document life in the divided city from 1961 to 1989. Such a historical panorama would, of course, not be complete without taking a look at the fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989 and German reunification in 1990.”; they “interview escape helpers and follow the development of border fortifications as they grew higher and more impenetrable year by year”.

August 13, 1961- A last-minute escape

The first one shows Berlin in 1961, before the construction of the wall and the attempt to escape many people. “When radio mechanic Manfred Roseneit heard the Wall was going up on 13 August 1961 he set off on his motorbike and headed to the border to see if there was still a chance of getting across. Once he had found a spot to escape, he made a quick dash home to pick up his most important documents…”

At the end of October, American and Soviet tanks stand face-to-face at the US Checkpoint Charlie on Berlin Friedrichstrasse.

Map that represents the East-West border ran through the middle of Lake Glienicke.

Another video shows the facts happened at the end of October 1961 when American and Soviet tanks stand face-to-face at the US Checkpoint Charlie on Berlin Friedrichstrasse and the GDR authorities are trying to restrict the allies’ freedom of movement. The East-West border ran through the middle of Lake Glienicke. From 1961 the border was fortified, meaning that bathing was only allowed on the Western side. This film explores how the residents of Groß Glienicke dealt with the situation and tried to make contact with villagers on the other side.

It is interesting to discover how Luis Armstrong invited to East Berlin for a jazz concert gave in an interview the statement of not being interested in the wall but in the audience for his concert. Not only Armstrong brings music to East Berlin: in May 1978 it is the turn of the Queen and their spectacular concert in the Deutschlandhalle arena.

A moment of the spectacular concert in the Deutschlandhalle arena, shows the young Freddie Mercury

We can find clips showing the arrival of the tram, the opening of the hotel Metropol, the visit of Queen Elizabeth II, that of Ronald Regan and first lady in 1982, interviews and speeches from well-known dissidents, the conviction of authors accused of “defaming the GDR, the SED, its cultural policy and its legal system”, and of having “put themselves at the service of anti-communist forces working against the GDR”.

More and more frequent demonstrations for peace

Meantime, in 1983 many people on both sides of the city are campaigning for peace and disarmament. Women’s groups from East and West join forces and name themselves Women for Peace. Eva Quistorp, founder of Women for Peace in the West, talks about making contact with women on the other side of the Wall. It wasn’t an easy task because the Stasi pursued and spied on the women in the East. A lot of women from the peace movement in the East later became part of the autumn events that lead up to the fall of the Wall.

November, 9: International press conference at International Press Centre of Berlino East

When in 1988 Pink Floyd were playing outside the Reichstag building in West Berlin, on the other side of the Wall hundreds of fans gather in the hope of hearing some of the concert. But things take a turn for the worse and the East Berlin authorities make a number of arrests.

And here we are on 9 November 1989: during an international press conference Günter Schabowski, a member of the politburo, announces that the GDR will be opening its borders. An Italian journalist, Riccardo Ehrman, asks about changes to the laws governing the right to travel. Schabowski answers: “We have therefore decided today to put in place a regulation that allows every citizen of the German Democratic Republic to leave through any of its border crossings.” Ehrman: “When does it come into effect?”
Schabowski: “That comes into effect, according to my information… immediately, without delay.”
Schabowski continues: “Permanent exit can take place via all border crossing points between the GDR and FRG or West Berlin.”

The wall is dead.

www.the-berlin-wall.com

www.the-berlin-wall.com/about/

www.the-berlin-wall.com/videos/berlin-contemporary-witnesses-last-minute-escape-806/

www.the-berlin-wall.com/videos/louis-armstrong-in-east-berlin-739/

www.the-berlin-wall.com/videos/elizabeth-ii-and-queen-visit-berlin-655/

www.the-berlin-wall.com/videos/the-queen-visits-west-berlin-564/

www.the-berlin-wall.com/videos/president-reagan-visits-west-berlin-680/

www.the-berlin-wall.com/videos/the-berlin-wall-opens-726/

The website is optimised for mobile devices. Visiting Berlin we can use the digital map to visit the sites featured in the archive footage and travel back in time to learn about the event at the place it happened.

Beyond obsolescence: Sustainable development. Discuss the futures of industrial heritage.

2021 TICCIH Congress in Montreal: Industrial Heritage Reloaded. New Territories, Changing Culturescapes

The Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage of Université du Québec à Montréal, in collaboration with the Association québécoise pour le patrimoine industriel (Quebec association for industrial heritage) and with the support of Tourisme Montréal, will be hosting the 2021 TICCIH Congress in Montreal, from August 30th to September 4th, 2021.
In order to enrich scientific discussions, to promote the discovery of Montreal’s urban and cultural environment and its particular challenges in the field of heritage, and to support new partnership in research and training, the five days of the conference include numerous activities of inquiry and dialogue in various areas linked to industrial heritage, as architecture, urban planning, gastronomy, music, cinema, etc. Well-known guest speakers will also be heard.
The 2021 TICCIH congress in Montreal is designed to perpetuate and renew research and exchanges on less-discussed areas of industrial heritage, by addressing the identity of industrial civilization from the angle of its representations, culture, territories, of its inheritance (positive or negative) and of their documentation and development.
The deadline for the call for sessions and papers is January 31st 2020.
The Congress will enthusiastically welcome especially those proposals of research or intervention on industrial heritage that will bring to discussion the following topics:

Functional or symbolic requalification
Belonging and social acceptability
Social engagement with the scientific discourse
Memory and people’s participation
Sustainable development
Uses and aims of heritage
Environmental challenges of industrial heritage

Save the dates!
Congress : 29 August to 4th September 2021
Deadline of call for sessions : January 31st 2020
Deadline of call for papers : August 31st 2020
Deadline to submit full paper : April 30th 2021

Read more about the XVIII TICCIH Congress HERE

Diverse challenges, humane solutions

HERItage International Conference: March 11-13, 2020 Opatija (Rijeka), Croatia

The University of Rijeka, one of the largest and the most cosmopolitan city in the country, concurrently the 2020 European Capital of Culture, is pleased to welcome you to this three-day HERItage conference organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia and the European Commission as part of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
The three-day HERItage conference will focus on research and innovation in the field of the social sciences and the humanities, with particular dedication to the domain of cultural heritage, including the role of digitalization and the importance of education.
Mission of the conference: to explore a priority setting agenda on European research and innovation (R&I) related to cultural heritage, which will contribute to regional innovation ecosystems that rely on education, scientific and technological research, and culture.
Main objective: to promote a debate with policymakers and stakeholders on the impact of cultural heritage in socio-economic development, the preservation of democratic values, sustainability and future jobs.
The conference will gather participants from all around Europe from academia, governmental organizations, industry, SMEs and users of research results. Also, policymakers, local authorities.
The aim is to present research results and develop substantial discussions on the topics of Cultural Heritage and the future of research and development in SSH in a rapidly changing world characterised by digitization, mobility, brain circulation, inequalities and technological advancement, and their repercussions.
The conference will support and promote the thorough development of Open Science in European research area.
The preliminary conference programme includes a large number of internationally recognized panellists and speakers, a broad range of plenary thematic panels, of focused topic sessions as well as poster and video presentations.
More information about the conference here
Download the letter of invitation