In the last decade, the dramatic developments in digitalisation have reached cultural heritage. Digital archiving and reconstruction, virtual reality, and 3D laser scanning, modelling and printing, ...are influencing the way we consume, manage, and preserve it. As part of the latter, detailed virtual records of endangered urban cultural heritage, through digital archiving, capturing, and reconstruction techniques, can help preserve its memories and lengthen its life; particularly, once decision-makers resolve to end its tangibility. However, the application of digitalisation to cultural heritage is not always easy, faced with issues such as cost, lack of sources and skills, sustainability, and intellectual property limitations. This paper illustrates the challenges encountered by land-deprived and fast-growing Southeast Asian cities in amalgamating urban cultural heritage preservation with pressing development needs. Ultimately, it discusses the introduction of digitalisation in this debate by examining the broader consequences of the association.
Editorial Bradburne, James M
Museum management and curatorship (1990),
12/2022, Volume:
37, Issue:
6
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Welcome to the sixth and final issue of 2022. The proxy war between Russia and the West shows no sign of a peaceful resolution, but not only is the human cost is spiralling out of control, but the ...damage to monuments, institutions and cultural heritage is increasing daily, with unforgiving and irrevocable consequences. Every time our heritage is damaged or destroyed, we all suffer the loss. As a journal aimed at supporting reflective practice, we cannot stand back from the issues the world is currently facing. The current war has now thrown the issues of economic and social inequality, structural racism, and the precarious balance between international law and naked power into even starker relief, which only exacerbate the critical issue of climate change, which continues to call out for immediate and decisive action.
This open access book identifies various forms of heritage destruction and analyses their causes. It proposes strategies for avoiding and solving conflicts, based on integrating heritage into the ...2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It reflects on the identity-building role of heritage, on multidimensional conflicts and the destruction of heritage, and considers conflict-solving strategies and future perspectives. Furthermore, it engages theoretically and practically with the concepts of responsibility, reconciliation and sustainability, relating mainly to four Sustainable Development Goals, i.e. SDGs 4 (education), 11 (e.g. World Heritage), 13 (climate action) and 17 (partnerships for the goals). More than 160 countries have inscribed properties on the UNESCO World Heritage list since the World Heritage Convention came into force. Improvements in the implementation of the Convention, such as the Global Strategy for a Representative, Balanced and Credible World Heritage List, have occurred, but other conflicts have not been solved. The book advocates for a balanced distribution of properties and more effective strategies to represent the global diversity of cultural and natural heritage. Furthermore it highlights the importance of heritage in identity building.
The paper attempts to address contemporary selected phenomena that form the context of cultural heritage in western Poland. The statement refers to some social, legal and economic aspects that affect ...changes in the perception of cultural heritage in western Poland. Although the problems of cultural heritage in western Poland have been of interest to researchers for many years, new issues are emerging. According to the author, phenomena that can be observed in recent years are particularly interesting. These include the pronounced generational transformation in Poland and Germany, which is redefining the social perception of these problems. References to the significance of the German-Polish treaties in the perspective of the last several years are also interesting. The article poses the question of the real meaning of common heritage in the dimension of Polish-German relations.
Las ferrerías vizcaínas se hallaban, desde mediados del siglo XIX, paralizadas y sus instalaciones en una dramática situación de abandono. La noticia de la venta de la ferrería de Lebario, uno de los ...pocos ejemplos que permanecía activo, despertó un novedoso interés por la arquitectura preindustrial. En este artículo se analiza la instalación ferrona y las gestiones emprendidas desde ámbitos públicos y privados por su conservación, unas primeras iniciativas en torno al patrimonio preindustrial que transmitieron un legado que pervive en la actualidad.
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