Heritages Past and Present - Built and Social: A Conference on Culture, History, Art and Design
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2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Heritage. This conference uses this anniversary to critique the relationship between built and cultural heritage in today’s context.
The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Heritage established culture as a concept to be safeguarded. That event came three decades after the World Heritage Convention. Through that, UNESCO had set up its World Heritage List of protected sites and buildings. The intervening years have seen multiple shifts in how we define heritage – as both material objects and social traditions. Today more than ever before, the distinction is blurred. The streets on which we live, the edifices we design and the monuments we protect are all connected to the lifestyles, traditions and social groupings we celebrate and safeguard.
What we mean by heritage today then, is an open and diverse question. Our buildings and environments, our cities and neighborhoods, our memorials and our artworks, our cultures and communities are all component parts of what we understand as ‘preservable’ history. The dynamics at play are however, complex. Reflecting this scenario, this conference seeks papers on heritage from various standpoints: architecture, urban designers, planners, cultural theorists, sociologist and art and architecture historians.
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