Heritage and Diversity: Values in European Heritage Management Reflected in Award-Winning Best Practices

The EU_CUL research network project, which is a collaboration of academics in heritage studies and in pedagogy, explored the use of cultural heritage for fostering social responsibility in higher education (Erasmus + project. In this context, research was conducted on inspirational examples and best practices in heritage management that include social and other societal values of heritage. This included award winning heritage practices in Europe. Heritage awards have, as a good practice assessment methodology, the potential to promote particular implemented practices. They can therefore help us find out what is considered ‘best practices’ in heritage management. An analysis of these practices also enables us to identify patterns, trends and potential biases. Sub-questions posed were: what is considered a ‘best practice’ in heritage awards? What kind of practices get these prizes and recognitions? What kinds of heritage are included and get the most attention? To what extent is the diversity of heritage, values and individuals in Europe represented? This chapter will discuss the results of this analysis of heritage awards and critically discuss the patterns that emerge and how this relates to governance and leadership in heritage management. The research is limited to Europe, it focuses on EAA and Europa Nostra, thus national prizes were not included.

Integrating Big Data to Smart Destination Heritage Management

New technological requirements and needs of today's world are forcing cities to transform into smart cities and smart destinations in tourism cases. Smart destinations are focused on enhancing the tourist experience while also supporting the decision-making process, sustaining effective usage of resources, and maintaining sustainability. Big data has started to act as a reliable resource that assists these processes and offers alternative solution methods. Improvements in the usage of big data within the framework of smart destination management systems will also provide new insights and understandings about heritage sites and their management. Istanbul and the Sultanahmet region, which were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, form the main domain of this chapter. This research aims to reveal any significant differences between Istanbul Wi-Fi data, Sultanahmet Wi-Fi data, and Istanbul Arrivals data. Kruskal-Wallis Test was conducted for comparing these data sets for 28 countries, and recommendations are presented.

Taman Ujung Soekasada: Analysis of Physical Attributes and Urban Heritage Management

The revitalization and preservation of Taman Ujung Soekasada cultural heritage area make this building used as a heritage tourism destination in Karangasem. The purpose of this research is to analyze the uniqueness of Taman Ujung Soekasada cultural heritage as heritage tourism and to find out people's perceptions about the development of the area into a tourist destination in Amlapura City. This study uses a mixed-method that combines two analyzes, namely quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative analysis was obtained through a perceptual survey of one hundred respondents to find out their opinion on the management of Ujung Soekasada Park as a heritage tourism area. Qualitative analysis was carried out by identifying spatial conditions, spatial planning, and building patterns in Ujung Soekasada Park, Amlapura. The physical elements contained in the traditional architecture of Taman Ujung Soekasada have a high value if it can be managed properly to become a tourist destination, especially to provide added value to community economic activities such as increasing micro-businesses, selling local community handicrafts, staging cultural arts and activities. other. Based on the results of the analysis, it is obtained the identification of the perceptions of the visitor community and tourism actors that they strongly agree to use Ujung Soekasada Park as a cultural tourism area by displaying the potential of traditional works of buildings, with a percentage of 86.57% hope that it can encourage tourists to come to Amlapura City, so that it can encourage progress of community economic activities around the tourist center.

Rwandan solutions to Rwandan problems: Heritage decolonization and community engagement in Nyanza District, Rwanda

Highlighting the rural district of Nyanza in Rwanda, this article examines community relations to heritage resources. It investigates the possibilities for more ethical, engaged models of heritage management which can better deliver on agendas of decolonization and development. Our research finds that Nyanza’s heritage stakeholders highly value heritage’s social and economic roles, but communities are also significantly alienated from heritage resources. In seeking to bridge this gap, heritage professionals utilize a discourse of technocratic improvement, but community leaders emphasize ideas of ownership, drawing on higher state-level discourses of self-reliance and “homegrown solutions.” They mobilize the state’s own attempts to filter developing, decolonizing initiatives through Rwandan frameworks to advocate for communities’ right to participate in heritage. This local agency offers a roadmap for utilizing favorable aspects of existing governance to push heritage management toward community engagement and decolonization.

A Web-Based Geoinformation System for Heritage Management and Geovisualisation in Cantón Nabón (Ecuador)

Since ancient times, human beings have been interested in knowing their environment in order to make the right decisions in territorial management. The spatial component is a feature of great importance in the assets that surround us. Heritage geoinformation is a convenient and effective way for management, protection and safeguarding of cultural and natural heritage. For optimal compliance, it is nowadays indispensable to rely on the use of new web technologies and geomatics knowledge that allow the documentation, visualisation, monitoring and management of heritage. Therefore, the main objective of this article is to develop a web-based cultural heritage management system in Cantón Nabón, Ecuador, as a case study. The system, consisting of a web-based geoportal accessible to the whole society, will allow consulting the geolocalised heritage information of the study area on a virtual map, as well as 3D geovisualisation in an interactive web viewer. The integrated system, once implemented, will take into consideration the preventive conservation cycle in the heritage field, highlighting, in Spanish, the creation of the heritage data models according to ISO21127:2014.

LA RECUPERACIÓN DEL ESPACIO PÚBLICO Y EL OLVIDO DE LO URBANO

Con argumentos de recuperar o rehabilitar los espacios públicos, se han realizado numerosas intervenciones en las plazas de los centros históricos de Latinoamérica. En el caso del Centro Histórico de Cuenca, en Ecuador, entre 2006 y 2016, se efectuaron varios proyectos en plazas y plazoletas del casco antiguo. En este contexto, este artículo es producto de una investigación que tuvo por objeto analizar las prácticas y discursos que han predominado en la gestión del patrimonio cultural en dichos espacios de la ciudad. Para el efecto, se realizó una investigación cualitativa, sustentada en revisión documental, entrevistas a profundidad y análisis del discurso. Como resultado, se desprende que ha predominado un enfoque material del patrimonio, una escasa atención a los usos sociales, politización de los proyectos, ausencia de procesos de participación y una mirada fragmentada de la ciudad. El discurso patrimonial oficial ha olvidado las apropiaciones y las re significaciones en el presente, no ha problematizado la noción de espacio público y, en más de una ocasión, ha estigmatizado los usos sociales. Se concluye que la gestión de los centros históricos requiere incluir miradas inter y transdisciplinarias, repensar el patrimonio como constructo, y direccionarse, más que a la conservación de las plazas per se, al cuidado de lo urbano. Palabras clave: Centro histórico, conservación, espacio público, patrimonio cultural, plazas. AbstractArguments of recovering or rehabilitating public spaces have guided interventions on squares (plazas) throughout the Latin American historic centres. In the case of the Historic Centre of Cuenca, Ecuador, from 2006 to 2016, several projects were carried out in the traditional plazas. In this context, this research aimed to analyze the practices and discourses that have predominated in cultural heritage management and the so-called public spaces of the city. For this purpose, a qualitative research, supported by documentary review, in-depth interviews, and discourse analysis was carried out. As a result, it is clear that a material approach to heritage is predominant, as well as little attention to social uses, the politicization of projects, an absence of participatory processes, and a fragmented approach to the city. The heritage discourse has forgotten the appropriations and resignifications in the present, it has not problematized the notion of public space and, in most cases, it has stigmatized social uses. Conclusions showed that historic places management requires including inter and transdisciplinary studies, rethinking heritage as a construct, and addressing, rather than the conservation of plazas, the care for urban life. Keywords Conservation, Historic centre, cultural heritage, public space, squares.

A stable, inexpensive and widely available burial environment or keeping place for archaeological or historical human skeletal remains

In 2003 historical (non-Aboriginal) human skeletal remains archaeologically excavated from St Mary’s Anglican Church cemetery in Adelaide, South Australia were reinterred in a concrete subterranean crypt. This paper examines preservation status following 15 years of interment. Skeletal remains placed in sealed plastic bags inside plastic curation boxes provided the best method to ensure physical and chemical preservation. Prefabricated concrete containers offer a cost-effective solution for the reburial of human skeletal remains associated with a range of archaeological contexts, including eroding burial sites, urban development sites, or those derived from earlier archaeological excavations. In relation to Indigenous burial sites, in cases where considered culturally appropriate, onsite crypts allow storage or repatriation of ancestral remains ‘on country’. Concrete crypts provide cultural heritage management professionals and Indigenous communities with stable, dry, long-term burial sites that allow quick and easy access should ongoing management options, Indigenous cultural practices, or future research require re entry into the crypt.

Heritage Education in Myanmar – developing resilience and sustainability through community engagement | မြန်ြာနိုင်ငံ၏အမြေအနှစ်ဆိုင်ရာပညာမရး ( လူထုအားမြင့် ကြံ့ခိုင်မရးနှ ငမ့် ရရညှ ်တည်တ့နံ ုငိ မ် ရး)

Over the last decade Myanmar has experienced a strong increase in interest in Myanmar’s heritage and a demand for local expertise in heritage management. However, in Myanmar there is no formal education in heritage studies. This is recognised as a significant gap in Myanmar’s abilities to manage and develop world heritage sites, as well as national and local level heritage sites, to international standards. To address this gap a group of researchers are preparing models for Myanmar Heritage Education considering short, medium and long-term goals. The models consider local and national heritage management needs, and ways to up-skill local staff working in heritage fields so course content can be delivered by Myanmar experts and become selfsustaining. Formal government accredited courses of study will take some time to implement. In the current covid-19 environment there is opportunity to focus on the role of community groups in heritage management. This paper will discuss current activities undertaken by community groups in heritage areas, and outline opportunities to engage community more fully in the longterm management of Myanmar’s cultural heritage. The aim is to develop local resources that are resilient and sustainable. မြန်ြာနိုင်ငံ၏ အ မြေအနှစ်ထိန်းသိြ်း မေးလုပ်ငန်းြျားတေင် ဆယ်နှစ်အတေင်း စိတ်ဝင်စားြှု တိူးတက်လာပပီး မပည်တေင်းကျွြ်းကျင်သူြျားစေားေှိေန် လိုအပ်လာပါသည်။ မြန်ြာနိုင်ငံေှိ တက္ကသိုလ်ြျား တေင် ယခု အချနိ ် အထိ အမ ြေအနှစ် ထိန်းသိြ်းမ ေး ပညာေပ်အတေက် ဘေဲ့ မပးနိုင်သည့် အဆင့် ထိ သင်ကကား မပးနိုင်ြှု ြေှိ မသးပါ။ ထို အချက်သည် ကြ္ဘာ အ မြေအနှစ်၊ နိုင်ငံအ မြေအနှစ်နှင့် မေသဆိုင်ော အ မြေအနှစ်ြျားကိုထိန်းသိြ်း မစာင့် မေှာက်ောတေင် မြန်ြာနိုင်ငံ ၏ အ မေးတကကီးလိုအပ်လျက် ေှိမသာကေက်လပ် အမြစ်သတိမပုနိုင်ပါသည်။ ထိုကေက်လပ်ကို မမြေှင်းနိုင်ေန်အတေက် သု မတသနပညာေှင်တစ်စုသည် မြန်ြာ့အ မြေအနှစ်ထိန်းသိြ်း မေးပညာ အတေက် ကာလတို၊ အလယ်အလတ်နှင့် ကာလေှည် ေည်ြှန်းချက်ြျားချြှတ်ပပီး လုပ် မဆာင်နိုင်ြည့်ပုံ စံြျားကိုမပင်ဆင် မနပါသည်။ ထိုလုပ် မဆာင်နိုင်ြည့်ပုံစံြျားတေင် မေသဆိုင်ောနှင့် နိုင်ငံလုံးဆိုင်ော အ မြေအနှစ်ထိန်းသိြ်း မေးလိုအပ်ချက်ြျား၊ နိုင်ငံတေင်းသက်ဆိုင်ော လုပ်ငန်းလုပ် မဆာင် မနသူြျားကို အေည် အ မသေးမြှင့်တင်နိုင်ြည့်နည်းလြ်းြျားကို စဥ်းစားထားပပီး၊ မြန်ြာ ပညာေှင်ြျားက ပို့ချ၍ ကိုယ်တိုင် ေပ်တည်နိုင်ြည့် အ မမခအ မနကိုစဥ်းစားထားပါသည်။ အစိုးေြှ အသိအြှတ်မပု မသာ ပုံြှန် (ဘေဲ့)သင်တန်းြျားြေင့်လှစ်ေန် အချနိ ်ယူေြည် မြစ်ပါသည်။ လတ်တ မ လာ Covid 19 ကူးစက်မပန့်ပေားမ နချနိ ်တေင် အ မြေအနှစ်ထိန်းသိြ်းမ ေး အတေက် လူြှုအြေဲ့အစည်း၏ပါဝင်ြှု အခန်း ကဏ္ဍ ကိုအာရုံစိုက်ေန် အခေင့် အ မေးပင်မြစ်ပါသည်။ ဤစာတြ်းတေင် သက်ဆိုင်ော အ မြေအနှစ်မေသ အသီးသီးြှ လူြှု အြေဲ့ြျား၏ လှုပ်ေှားြှုြျား၊ မြန်ြာ့ယဥ် မကျးြှု အ မြေအနှစ်ြျား မေေှည်ထိန်းသိြ်းြှုတေင် လူြှု အြေဲ့အစည်းြျားြှ ပိုြိုပါဝင်နိုင်ြည့် အခေင့်အလြ်းြျား ချြှတ်မခင်းတို့ပါဝင်ပါသည်။ ခံနိုင်ေည်ေမှိ သာ၊ အနာဂတ်ြျုိးဆက်အတေက်လက်ေှိ စေြ်းအားြျားကို အ မကာင်းအတိုင်းချန်ထားနိုင် မသာ မပည်တေင်းစေြ်းအားစုြျားကို ပိုြို တိုးတက်လာ မအာင် မဆာင်ေွက်ေန်ေည်ေွယ်ပါသည်။

Creativity and Innovation in Cultural Heritage Management in Plunturan Village, Pulung District, Ponorogo Regency, East Java Province of Indonesia towards Tourism Village

Indonesia is the largest country in the world. One of the legendary areas is Ponorogo Regency. Focused on Plunturan Village which has cultural diversity which is trying to become a tourist village. Researchers are interested in taking this research because Plunturan Village relies more on customs and has a unique cultural heritage. Data collection techniques used are interviews, observation and literature study. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The creativity and innovation in the management of cultural heritage include the art of Reyog Ponorogo in various versions and generations, Gajah-Gajahan and Keling, Orek-Orek and Tledekan, Bumbung Suloyo, Karawitan, Oncor Obor, and the Selawenan Festival. Indonesia adalah negara terbesar di dunia. Salah satu wilayah yang melegenda adalah Kabupaten Ponorogo. Difokuskan pada Desa Plunturan yang memiliki keberagaman budaya yang sedang mengupayakan menjadi desa wisata. Peneliti tertarik untuk mengambil penelitian ini karena Desa Plunturan lebih mengandalkan adat istiadat dan memiliki keunikan pada warisan budayanya. Teknik pengambilan data yang digunakan yaitu wawancara, observasi dan studi literatur. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Adapun bentuk-bentuk kreativitas dan inovasi dalam pengelolaan warisan budaya antara lain kesenian Reyog Ponorogo dalam berbagai versi dan generasi, Gajah-Gajahan dan Keling, Orek-Orek dan Tledekan, Bumbung Suloyo, Karawitan, Oncor Obor, dan Festival Selawenan.

Understanding Bunker Architecture Heritage as a Climate Action Tool: Plan Barron in Lisbon as a “Milieu” and as “Common Good” When Dealing with the Rise of the Water Levels

Abandoned on the coast as skeletons, bunkers are the last theatrical gesture in the history of Western military architecture (Virilio, 1975). Technically obsolete, this military territory has fallen into extinction and is now generally forgotten. We present the Plan Barron of Defense of Lisbon and Setubal case study, a mid-twentieth-century set of bunkers, recently declassified, as a case study to discuss the future of this heritage facing the climate crisis. Can oblivious historical war heritage be an opportunity to fight climate emergencies? We present four theoretical concepts to fundament this environmental positioning: (i) Heritage Management and Climate Governance, (ii) Techno-aesthetic (Simondon, 1992): panopticon territorial cluster; (iii) Military: camouflage as design, and (iv) Civil: inheritance as future potential. The results allow us to look at military architecture in the form of a bunker, as a set of territorial, architectonic, cultural, and social interests. We demonstrate that the counterpoint of its invisibility is a singular naturalized “milieu”, a place where the memory of war can be transformed as a buffer zone that combines characteristics of climate and coastal resilience with cultural and social interest as a “common good”.