Editorial Bradburne, James M
Museum management and curatorship (1990),
12/2022, Letnik:
37, Številka:
6
Journal Article
Recenzirano
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.
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.
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.
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.
The role of cultural heritage conservation has proven beneficial for the development of cities and communities. However, a lack of systematic assessment methodologies for adequate consideration of ...the gap between sustainable urban development and the conservation of cultural heritage, has been long noted by academia. This paper contributes to bridge this knowledge gap, by discussing the state of the practice from the urban perspective on the integration of cultural heritage as mean for sustainable development (SD). With a mixed-methodology, 19 reports on urban development, management and competitiveness were analyzed. The research identified three levels of inclusion: (1) at the strategic level; (2) at the operational level; (3) at the monitoring level. From the urban development perspective, two main approaches to heritage were identified: as cultural capital and as an urban phenomena requiring tailored urban management. Current links to the sustainability pillars and correlations of cultural heritage with wider urban factors are discussed. Conclusions highlight that a more thorough conceptualization and clearer correlation between cultural heritage management with wider urban phenomena is yet to be developed. Therefore, more efficient tools and more appropriate methodologies to correlate cultural heritage protection as an urban resource are still lacking.
•Urban monitoring tools acknowledge cultural heritage at the strategic, operational and monitoring level.•Cultural heritage bridges with sustainability dimensions are widely discussed but seldom proven.•Cultural heritage is understood as a competitive resource in the global urban market requiring a tailored management.•Existing indicators target the availability of heritage resources rather than the sustainability of its management.
Authentic intangible cultural heritage (ICH) provides a community with a unique selling point in the globally competitive tourism industry. The process of commodification of ICH, however, has ...threatened its authenticity and thus sustainable tourism approaches are required to achieve successful transmission and promotion of ICH as a sustainable tourism resource. This paper explores the priorities of ICH practitioners in relation to the development of ICH as a sustainable tourism resource, by utilising South Korea as a case study. The results revealed that from the ICH practitioners' perspectives, authenticity is a holistic notion integrating the transmitted customs, inherited meanings and the practitioners' identities. ICH practitioners agree with the potential positive symbiotic relationship between transmission of authentic ICH and promotion of ICH as a tourism resource. To achieve the positive symbiotic relationship, locals' awareness of ICH, ICH practitioner empowerment and parallel development between tourism development and transmission of ICH are necessary. To date, the practitioner approach to the authenticity of ICH and ICH as a sustainable tourism resource is little explored in the literature, thus this paper makes a valuable addition to the area of sustainable heritage tourism.
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