OVERVIEW
As the world becomes more urban, cities are facing increasing urban development challenges and city leaders and professionals are recognising that in a world of greater homogeneity, cities need to compete with each other to attract talent and for investment. Cultural heritage has been identified as one key aspect in making a city unique for talent and investors. As such, city governments and private developers are looking to unlock the potential of their heritage assets, and identify how they might help achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Old Cities New Challenges 2024 is the third in a series of courses for urban conservation in Southeast Asia that is aimed at planners, architects, and associated urban conservation professionals working with urban heritage assets. This impact-driven course was created to provide participants a fuller understanding of conservation methodologies and practical, effective tools and techniques for the conservation of historic places in urban contexts while contributing to the career development path of the participants.
COURSE CONTENT
The course will be delivered online and will be highly interactive. Formal presentations will be complemented by live tutorials and feature group discussions during which participants will develop their knowledge and skills through exercises using a defined heritage site. We will follow the Historic Urban Landscape approach, which emphasizes a values-based approach to heritage conservation. Participants will share their experiences regarding heritage conservation challenges in their respective cities.
Topics to be addressed include:
Examination of international approaches, including Historic Urban Landscape (HUL)
Documentation of tangible and intangible heritage assets, including cultural mapping
Defining cultural significance of historic places, resulting in a statement of significance
Heritage economics, related to cultural capital and sustainability
The adaptation of the Sustainable Development Goals into heritage conservation planning
Infill development in historic areas
Goals, strategies and components of an urban conservation plan, resulting in participants’ drafting a plan for a specific site
FORMAT
This course is offered entirely as a eight-week remote-learning experience using the Brightspace learning platform, with a one-week break between weeks four and five. Participants will attend live 90-minute sessions once a week with instructors.
After these live sessions, short pre-recorded presentations will be available for participants for independent learning until the next week’s session.
There will be no live sessions the week of May 19.
ELIGIBILITY
The course is restricted to thirty mid-career urban planners, architects and associated urban conservation professionals living or working in one of the ten countries in the ASEAN network.
INSTRUCTORS
A team of six instructors and invited speakers will share their practical expertise related to the conservation of historic places.
