World Heritage: Shared Heritage Event

prepared by Edinburgh World Heritage
 

World Heritage Day is celebrated around the globe, and offers an opportunity to raise the public's awareness about the diversity of cultural heritage and the efforts that are required to protect and conserve it.

Here in Edinburgh we are taking shared heritage as our theme. The event will explore the benefits that World Heritage brings to all members of the community, with contributions from expert speakers and panel discussion.
 
To register and for more information click here

Venue details: 
World Heritage: Shared Heritage
Wednesday 16 April 2014, 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Royal College of Physicians, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ

The event is kindly supported by Historic Scotland.

 




Speakers:

Sue Bruce, Chief Executive, City of Edinburgh Council
Sue Bruce is Chief Executive of City of Edinburgh Council having been previously Chief Executive at Aberdeen City Council and East Dunbartonshire Council.  Sue Bruce holds an M.Phil. Politics/Government and LL.B (Scots Law) from the University of Strathclyde, a Diploma in Youth & Community Studies from Jordanhill College of Education and Cert. Strategic Public Sector Negotiation  from the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  She is an Elected Fellow of the RSA (FRSA).
In May 2010 and again in May 2011 Sue received the Prince’s Business Ambassador award from HRH The Prince Charles, in October 2010 received the Scottish Public Sector Leader of the Year Award and in November 2013 she was named Chief Executive of the Year in the Hr NETWORK National Awards.

Lloyd Anderson, Director, British Council Scotland
Lloyd has had a range of senior UK and overseas roles for the Council.  Most recently, he had assignments as Director Georgia and Deputy Director Russia, and previously was Director Science for the British Council globally. In Georgia, he maintained a growing business despite grant reductions, involving fundraising, partnerships and new business opportunities.  In Russia he led his team to develop new partnerships and programmes in innovative areas, and focused on identifying potential partners.  As Director Science from 1998, he gave strategic leadership to the Council’s global work in science, contributed to the Council’s reputation as a world authority, and networked at senior level with the UK science community and government.

REAL CORP 2014: “PLAN IT SMART” Clever Solutions for Smart Cities

19^th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development and Information Society

GeoMultimedia 2014

21-23 May 2014

Austrian Economic Chambers

Wiedner Hauptstrasse 63, 1040 Vienna, Austria

About REAL CORP Conferences

REAL CORP conferences are held annually since 1996. About 400-500 experts from around the world from the fields of urban planning, transport planning, information and communication technologies, architecture, social and environmental sciences, real estate, GIS, surveying and remote sensing and more meet to discuss the latest tasks and topics on urban planning, regional development and information society in an international and extremely interdisciplinary conference.

About 180 expert lectures, presentations, round table discussions, workshops and small exhibitions will be offered on the conference days, composed by a traditional extensive social programme.

More information available on www.corp.at

The 3rd International Urban Regeneration Congress

  - Regeneration in Urban Policy

It is the third time that Institute of Urban Development (Poland) will organize the International Urban Regeneration Congress, which will be held in Krakow on the 4^th – 6^th June 2014.

It is dedicated to all those  who are connected with the issue of revitalization – experts, animators, scientists, practitioners, etc.

The Congress will take place in the Nowa Huta Cultural Centre (232, Jana Pawła II Avenue - Central Square), in the vicinity of the "old" Nowa Huta, 

a model city from the socialist realism period, today a district of Krakow listed as a cultural asset in the register of historic monuments, currently being intensively regenerated.

For further information about the Congress, the program content and the necessary formalities please refer to the following  website: 

http://irm.krakow.pl/en/urban_regeneration.html

Typology of heritage-led regeneration

Typology of heritage-led regeneration

– case of Edinburgh World Heritage Trust and recommendations for Polish cities

by Aleksandra Jadach - Sepioło, PhD

Although heritage-led regeneration is supposed to be the most appropriate scheme for urban regeneration in Poland, it is still in the beginning. You can find huge repositories of documents, analysis and expertise concerning the cultural, symbolic and the material value of heritage, prepared especially during the communist period with no reference to the regeneration, of course. After the transformation many of these analysis were put on shelves or archives (esp. in towns and medium cities). They are no more used. None takes this kind of documents during programming activities in urban regeneration. The material heritage is treated with no distinction, just as a factor for receiving higher donation for projects. There are only few programs in Poland, in which the richness of the cultural heritage enhanced the new value because of using the traditional techniques of work, materials, etc. Bearing in mind the variety and the value of Polish build-heritage the key element of analysis in the paper is the exemplification of different projects in heritage-led regeneration. The benchmark is the scope of projects realized by the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust. The choice was rather simple as the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust is one of the most important and recognizable organizations in Europe, active not only in the management of  UNESCO World Heritage Site but also as in fund-raising for a different kind of heritage projects (infrastructural, social, educational, symbolic, etc.) and lobbying for a proper place for the heritage in urban regeneration schemes.

The analysis comprises many aspects: the range of partners involved in the projects (from individual owners to many powerful stakeholders), partners’ role (e.g. renovator, fund-raiser, technical advisor, owner, landscaping), costs of the project, economic and social impact of the project for the site regeneration, etc. The typology prepared on this basis is juxtaposed to the typology of Polish projects with heritage background and this comparison highlights diversity of possibilities for new kinds of projects in Poland.

(whole text of the paper will come soon)

The fourth meeting in sun-roasted Vienna - June 2013

The main objective was to discuss and introduce further changes in structures of the manuals to achieve a coherent approach. It is particularly important as the manuals have to pave the way for the final report. Moreover, the mechanism that the partnership is developing has to be applicable on the future partners who will be hopefully joining the partnership to expand the SATURN idea.

It was our first meeting at CEIT Alanova’s offices and opportunity to see how the institute operates. The meeting was joined by the director of the institute, Manfred Schrenk, who unveiled us some of the projects the institute is involved in. Sadly, one of our colleagues, Daniela Patti, from the institute had to leave the partnership due to sabbatical break. Nevertheless, Julia Neuschmid joined the project to represent CEIT Alanova. Also Burcu Akinci (CEIT Alanova), who designed SATURN’s logo, as well as EWH’s project manager Fiona Rankin attended the meeting.  

The meeting in Vienna involved visits to regeneration sites, which may be used as case studies in SATURN. 

                                                                           Ankerbrotfabrik

The former anchor bread factory in the 10th District is home to ten institutions for contemporary art. Until about ten years ago this was still baked bread. Contemporary art is now at the center of the anchor bread factory in Vienna's  favourites. Beginning of the 20th Century built, have settled since 2009, studios, galleries and showrooms around the two huge courtyards of industrial building.

                                                                              Further information:

                                                                               www.loftcity.at 

                                             Visit to the Westgürtel regeneration project with Architect Silja 

Vienna’s WestGürtel area alongside one of the city’s most congested through  roads, which was in the process of deteriorating into a slum area, was successfully  regenerated through a mix of urban-development, job-creation, social and  cultural measures. The work was carried out under the auspices of the URBION project – URBan InterventION WestGürtel – which also came to assume an important image-bearing function for the entire URBAN I programme in Vienna.

                                                          Further information (page 40-41)

                                                   http://www.bka.gv.at/DocView.axd?CobId=31433