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SUMMARY:How to Enhance Value to Historic Context Through Contemporary Inte
 rventions - Speaker to be confirmed
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nThe seminar will further explore current debate 
 around sustainable development and heritage\, continuing the series of her
 itage-related GreenBRIDGE events from October 2009.\n\nOur historic cities
  are living places\, often facing pressures from urban developments\, and 
 their associated environmental and social risks. Such threats are often co
 mpounded by widespread lack of knowledge about cultural heritage. If the c
 hange is inevitable\, it demands consent about the resources needed to sup
 port future developments within culturally significant places.\n\nThe semi
 nar will present and debate the case of UK urban World Heritage sites in p
 articular\, addressing the potential for holistic approaches to heritage m
 anagement and development in historic areas.\n\nThe question of public mot
 ivation for conservation will be assessed through an examination of the ro
 le of incorporating the experiential and emotive in re-establishing reside
 nts' connections to the old city on the example of the old city of Cairo.\
 n\nTo debate strategic development of a culturally significant area\, seve
 ral questions would be explored:\n\n* How can heritage be approached more 
 holistically?\n* How might decisions be made about the cultural significan
 ce of a place\, and who should be involved?\n* How might contemporary arch
 itectural interventions enhance historic value?\n* Emerging actors and com
 munity engagement in planning and conservation strategies?\n\n*Speakers*\n
 \n* Adam Wilkinson Director\, Edinburgh World Heritage Trust\n* James Whit
 e Part 3 Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Architecture
  (candidate)\, University of Cambridge\n* Heba Mostafa PhD researcher\, De
 partment of Architecture\, University of Cambridge\n* Tatiana Vakhitova Ph
 D researcher\, Department of Engineering\, University of Cambridge\n\n*Spe
 akers' Abstracts:*\n\n*Adam Wilkinson\, "Experiences from World Heritage s
 ite in Edinburgh"*\n\nAdam Wilkinson will look at current practice in Edin
 burgh where\, through the World Heritage Site management plan\, the three 
 main parties involved in the management of the WHS are pursuing a holistic
  approach to its management in their activities\, from action on the groun
 d through to the annual monitoring of the WHS\, working with the breadth o
 f the community in this complex urban WHS.\n\n*James White\, "Conservation
  theory of UNESCO World Heritage"*\n\nJames’s research dissects the fund
 amentals of WH theory\, employing the Edinburgh WH Site as a case study in
  the investigation of transfers of meaning in UNESCO WH. \n\nIn the contex
 t of this research\, James develops conceptual architectural responses to 
 theoretical conservation issues\, highlighting in the process that\n\nWH S
 ites are not necessarily fated to become frozen in time for the purpose of
  conservation. In this light\, heritage concerns become the creative expre
 ssion of a need to learn from the past whilst progressing into the future.
 \n\n*Heba Mostafa\, “We Are Not Baghdad!”: Heritage and the Heroic on 
 the Streets of Cairo*\n\nA direct consequence of the withdrawal of securit
 y forces from the city of Cairo on the fourth day of uprisings was the aba
 ndonment of heritage sites throughout the country to what seemed to be an 
 unavoidable fate of looting and ransacking.\n\nWhat seemed to be a replay 
 of the horrors of Baghdad in 2003 soon turned into an act of popular defia
 nce\, as the world witnessed in awe the formation of a human shield around
  the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo. After only one hour of security wi
 thdrawal a public call was sent out by the protestors through media channe
 ls for the people of Cairo to come and protect the museum. This eventually
  led to an army protective unit being dispatched to protect the site\, res
 ulting in an immediate halt to attempted attacks. While the neighboring he
 adquarters of the ruling party went up in flames\, a group of fifty protes
 tors soon swelled to thousands\, blocking access to the museum and calling
  for others to join.\n\nDespite some looting occurring\, the scale of deva
 station could have been much worse were it not for this preemptive and her
 oic act on the part of the protestors. This paper will examine the events 
 of that night in an attempt to reconstruct how this positive reaction from
  the people came about based on an eyewitness account and footage of the e
 vent. In light of the recent mass destruction of Iraqi national heritage\,
  what can we learn from the events of Friday the 28th of January in Cairo?
  With uprisings sweeping the region how prepared are we as an internationa
 l heritage community to respond to this risk?\n\n*Tatiana Vakhitova\, "Ass
 essing Impact on Outstanding Universal Value of World Heritage site: case 
 studies from the UK's urban planning context"*\n\nTatiana will talk about 
 her research in progress\, outlining theoretical concepts and empirical fi
 ndings from the UK's WH sites.\n\nTheory suggests consideration of built c
 ultural heritage as a complex social phenomenon with multiple values.\n\nE
 xamples from Bath\, Edinburgh and Liverpool will illustrate what is done i
 n practice in probably the most complex cases of comprehensive intertwined
  local\, national\, international regulations and management practices.\n\
 nThe presentation will encourage debate about development in a culturally 
 significant areas\, impact assessment tools available and unique character
 istics of cultural heritage important for its proper impact analysis.
LOCATION:CRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane
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