Conclusions: Sustainable Development and African Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management

2016 ◽  
pp. 203-218
Author(s):  
Susan Osireditse Keitumetse
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Cultural Heritage Conservation ◽  
Conservation And Management

scholarly journals The Conservation and Management of the Cultural Heritage of Thailand: The Drafting of the Charter

MANUSYA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Weeraphan Shinawatra
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
The State ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Cultural Heritage Conservation ◽  
Conservation And Management

This paper is an attempt to explain problems of cultural heritage conservation and management in Thailand due to the neglect of the State and the weakness of the society in understanding and protecting their cultural heritage especially the “folk culture” against globalization. The paper also points out that the impending Thailand Charter for cultural heritage conservation and management is the key solution to counterbalance today’s threats. Non-government organizations should take the lead in drafting the Charter with full public participation. Meanwhile local cultural heritage organizations which are at risk should immediately respond, with all stakeholders involved, before it is too late.

scholarly journals Globalization, Cultural Heritage Management and the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Nigeria

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1703-1715
Author(s):  
Caleb A. Folorunso
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage Conservation ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Sub Saharan

This paper addresses the impacts of globalization on cultural heritage conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. The homogenization and commodification of Indigenous cultures as a result of globalization and it’s impacts on the devaluation of heritage sites and cultural properties is discussed within a Nigerian context. Additionally, the ongoing global demand for African art objects continues to fuel the looting and destruction of archaeological and historical sites, negatively impacting the well-being of local communities and their relationships to their cultural heritage. Global organizations and institutions such as UNESCO, the World Bank, and other institutions have been important stakeholders in the protection of cultural heritage worldwide. This paper assesses the efficacy of the policies and interventions implemented by these organizations and institutions within Africa and makes suggestions on how to advance the protection of African cultural heritage within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Furthermore, cultural heritage conservation is explored as a core element of community well-being and a tool with which African nations may achieve sustainable economic development.

scholarly journals Linking buildings, archives and museums of the 19th century Turin's Cultural Heritage

2015 ◽  
Vol II-5/W3 ◽  
pp. 307-314
Author(s):  
R. Tamborrino ◽  
F. Rinaudo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
3D Modeling ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Cultural Heritage Conservation ◽  
Conservation And Management

The documentation of Cultural Heritage asset is the basis for all the interventions and policies on Cultural heritage conservation and management. The documentation is mainly based on historic knowledge and metric survey. As far as historic knowledge is concerned many information are still recorded and preserved inside written documents that are usually not easy to reach and correctly understandable by all the experts that have specific responsibilities on Cultural Heritage. <br><br> The digitalization of documents (hardly faced in the last years) is not sufficient to guarantee the effective access to the historical information useful inside a documentation process. The documentation always needs an historical interpretation based on a critical reading produced by linking heterogeneous materials. Iconography also is an important source when it is correctly interpreted and linked to other sources. IT development and digital technology diffusion allowed offering new way to record, organize and share historical information: GIS and 3D modeling can be used as standard approaches to transfer the historical knowledge in a proper way to specialists involved in Cultural Heritage conservation and management. They have been generally used as tool to represent information for different targets, the ones mostly for specialized users, the others for edutainment. GIS are largely diffused yet in the Cultural Heritage management, and 3D modeling is wide spread used in museums communication. Nevertheless, both of them have more potential. They could be integrated in order to manage different data set related with the same matter. They could be used to make new research by surveying and improving interpretation in a way ready to transmit the outcomes. To produce a new generation of affordable digital historical products is necessary that the GIS and 3D modeling design and realization would be developed in a multidisciplinary approach that must be explained and demonstrated to the people that in the future will offer to the community this expertise. <br><br> The paper describes a teaching and research training experience started two years ago at the Politecnico di Torino in the master course on Architecture (Conservation).

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