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SUMMARY:“HERITAGE and FUTURE Cities: Lessons from the PAST for Sustainab
 le FUTURE” - Tatiana V. Vakhitova
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DESCRIPTION:*When:	  		Thursday 4th of March 2010\, 12:00-14:00\nWhere :		
 CRASSH Seminar Room\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge\, CB2 1RX*\n\n\n*_James Hoo
 per\, Global Heritage Fund – UK_*\n\n*“Banteay Chhmar – Opportunitie
 s and threats in north-western Cambodia”*\n\nGlobal Heritage Fund (GHF) 
 has\, since January 2008\, entered into an agreement with the Cambodian Mi
 nistry of Culture and Fine Arts (MCFA) to provide funding and technical as
 sistance in the conservation of the tentatively listed UNESCO World Herita
 ge Site of Banteay Chhmar. This talk will focus on separate narratives wit
 hin the project with the intention of illustrating the varying considerati
 ons and negotiations undertaken by GHF in this process.  These perspective
 s will reflect the radically different pressures exerted on a heritage pla
 ce by local\, national and international actors and the challenges that an
  international NGO faces when assuming responsibility for any aspect of th
 e site’s development. Global Heritage Fund’s involvement comes as the 
 result of numerous incentives.  The temple of Banteay Chhmar represents th
 e last of the great Angkorian Temples to receive little or no recent schol
 arly attention and thus represents a vast store of cultural-historic infor
 mation.  Meanwhile\, an imminent Korean Government and Asian Development B
 ank funded road improvement project threatens to bring rapid development t
 o the area with entirely insufficient planning for sustainable heritage ma
 nagement.  \n\n*_Tatiana V. Vakhitova\, PhD researcher Centre for Sustaina
 ble Development\, University of Cambridge_*\n\n*Research in progress: “I
 ncorporating Cultural Heritage Values into planning for Sustainable Develo
 pment at the City level: Case Studies from the UK’s World Heritage Sites
 ”*\n\nThe PhD research project investigates the place of cultural herita
 ge in the planning process for sustainable development\, supported by Stra
 tegic Environmental Assessment (SEA) (and the version specific to the UK\,
  Sustainability Appraisal (SA)/SEA)) and Environmental Impact Assessment (
 EIA) tools. The research methodology is based on case studies analysis. Ch
 osen case studies comprise World Heritage (WH) sites officially recognised
  as possessing Outstanding Universal Value (OUV). Their examination will h
 elp to establish improved ways of considering cultural heritage values in 
 planning for sustainable development. Fundamentally\, the research will co
 ntribute to an improved impact assessment framework that better addresses 
 cultural heritage values. The research partly contributes to the UNESCO an
 d TU/e University (Holland) project “OUV\, WH cities and Sustainability
 ”. Specifically it focuses on the core issue\, interpretation of OUV\, f
 or use in a web-based tool\, which maps the OUV assessment process. This p
 roject should increase transparency and clarity in planning decision-makin
 g practice of WH sites. Overall the research aims to facilitate better con
 sideration of cultural heritage values in decision-making practices in pla
 nning\, and argues the importance of this in creating attractive and econo
 mically as well as culturally viable places to live.\n\n*_Shadia Taha\, Ph
 D researcher Archaeology Department\, University of Cambridge_* \n\n*When 
 Stakeholders Go Solo: The Case of Suakin*\n\nSuakin on the East Coast of S
 udan is a place that grew over a long period from a small internal port to
  become a prosperous maritime trading centre\, the most famous on the Red 
 Sea coast from the 14th century to the early 20th century - until Port Sud
 an was founded in 1909 - which gradually ended Suakin’s long established
  place as a major trading centre and a sea route. Suakin has a rich range 
 of cultural\, tangible\, intangible and natural heritage.  Despite the str
 ong tangible character of Suakin it has a strong presence of intangible he
 ritage\, expressed through religious festivals and practices\, traditional
  crafts\, traditional knowledge and cultural continuity.\nMy aim is to arg
 ue that in the face of rapid economic developments\, modernisation and urb
 anisation\, it is vital to examine how these sites can be preserved and in
 cluded into the development process so not to be seen as an obstacle for d
 evelopment. How to deal with the challenges of modernity without the risk 
 of losing cultural distinctiveness and diversity\, how can we preserve the
  living cultural traditions of the local community whose intangible herita
 ge is threatened as the towns plan new development.  A multi-disciplinary 
 approach will protect the historical character\, material and non-material
  culture and achieve a more sustainable development.\n\n*_Tera Pruitt\, Ph
 D researcher Archaeology Department\, University of Cambridge_*\n\n*“Jou
 sting Windmills? The Sustainability and Ethics of Invented Heritage Touris
 m”*\n\nThe production of knowledge is a particularly contested space whe
 n local community needs mix with standards of scientific practice.  This p
 aper presents a contested case study of archaeological practice in Visoko\
 , Bosnia.  This case of alternative archaeology\, popularly called ‘The 
 Bosnian Pyramids’\, is satisfying very important socio-political needs i
 n a community by providing a post-war region with a booming tourism indust
 ry.  Yet this industry\, selling a story of ancient and mysterious pyramid
 s in Bosnia\, is founded on nothing more than a performance and mimesis of
  science.\n\nThis paper raises some of the very important ethical concerns
  that emerge when whole landscapes are invented and reinvented.  In cases 
 such as Bosnia\, ‘alternative’ scientific narratives are stimulating a
  viable industry of tourism\, and they are arguably creating a climate of 
 social stability and tolerance in a post-war region.  Yet\, when such case
 s draw on unstable foundations of faulty logic and imagination\, how econo
 mically sustainable is the tourism?  Where do the ethical boundaries lie?\
 nHeba Mostafa\, PhD researcher Architecture Department\, University of Cam
 bridge\, “Silent Stones: The Role of the Visual in Reconstructing the Pa
 st”\nArchitectural historians are often called upon as consultants in th
 e conservation process. In their capacity as interpreters of the past\, th
 e ability to bring voices from history to the foreground proves invaluable
  to the process of heritage management. This becomes particularly importan
 t when historical urban fabric or monuments are no longer extant\; in this
  instance the historian’s role becomes one of a conservator of memory ra
 ther than monuments. This paper will examine the role played by computer-g
 enerated reconstructions based on primary source material\, of non-extant 
 13th c. Cairene palaces in light of the potentialities\, pitfalls and limi
 tations of interpreting the past using the visual media of the present.\n\
 n*_Seif El Rashidi\, coordinator of the Durham World Heritage Site_* \n\n*
 “Urban Conservation and its Social Challenges: Some Thoughts on Cities T
 hat Care and Cities That Don’t*\n\nSeif El Rashidi is currently the coor
 dinator of the Durham World Heritage Site. Between 1997 and 2008 he worked
  in Cairo for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture's Historic Cities Programme\,
  dealing with urban conservation issues in the medieval city. He holds a m
 asters degree in city design and social science from the London School of 
 Economics and one in history of Islamic architecture from the American Uni
 versity in Cairo. His research interests include the expression of identit
 y in buildings and cities\; and the evolution of architectural traditions.
  He contributed to Cairo: Revitalising a Historic Metropolis and Creswell 
 Photographs Re-examined: New Perspectives on Islamic Architecture.\n\nThe 
 talk compares the experience of developing a conservation plan for histori
 c Cairo\, with that of coordinating the Durham World Heritage Site\, speci
 fically looking at the social challenges of urban conservation\, and explo
 ring the effects of bureaucratic systems\, and what happens when they don
 ’t work well enough or work too well. In terms of urban conservation the
  two cities couldn’t be more different: Cairo suffers from a legal syste
 m that only sees historic buildings as monuments\, and residents that don
 ’t see their value at all. In addition\, rent-control laws mean that mos
 t of the residents of historic buildings are tenants who pay nominal rents
 \, giving landlords no incentive to invest in conservation\, and every rea
 son to strive to demolish their property as a means of evicting their tena
 nts. Central Durham\, like all other UK conservation areas\, has stringent
  controls\, and citizens who zealously guard their heritage\, sometimes to
  the extent of being adamantly against change.  Working in environments su
 ch as these require more than an awareness of the historic environment and
  its value\, it also requires an understanding of its people\, and how bes
 t to engage them in the conservation process. \n\n
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