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Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage

Florence Graezer Bideau, Chiara Maria Bortolotto

This paper tackles Avalanche Risks Management (ARM), nominated by Switzerland and Austria and inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018. On the one hand, this nomination conventionally highlights how traditional em ...

2023

Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Huế's Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making

Phi Nguyen Yen

This dissertation interrogates postcolonial cities’ syncretic territories, using Huế’s mnemonic sites – historically and culturally significant locales that aid in remembrance – to explore displaced communities’ cohabitation tactics and decolonization effo ...

EPFL2023

Methodology for energy retrofitting of Modern Architecture. The case study of the Olivetti office building in the UNESCO site of Ivrea

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati

Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU total energy consumption. Accounting for almost 45% of the existing building stock, the architecture of ...

2021

The Social Life of Heritage-Making: Cultural Representations and Frictions

Florence Graezer Bideau

The chapter explores the social and historic construction of heritage and the role played in this by institutions, from an anthropological perspective. Since state members ratified the UNESCO Conventions, national inventories have been collated so that can ...

Amsterdam University Press2020

Social Representations of Mexico City Historic Center: Heritage and Controversial Memories

Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

In this paper, we present the results of a research project that deals with the controversial memories of historic urban landscapes that have been designated as World Heritage sites by UNESCO. We observe - through the study of social representations of Mex ...

JOHANNES KEPLER UNIV, INST PAEDAGOGIK & PSYCHOLOGIE2020

Omnidirectional Strategies for Exploring Ancient Cities and Territories

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine

By focusing on technologies of virtual reality in conjunction with theories of “place” and “presence,” this chapter outlines the importance of new approaches to the museological experience and exploration of ancient cities and cultural heritage sites. Expl ...

Oxford University Press2020

New Drawings of the Alhambra: Deformations of Muqarnas in the Pendentives of the Sala de la Barca

Ignacio Ferrer Perez-Blanco

Architectural heritage preservation and sustainability need advanced graphic techniques in order to document and understand the disposition/composition of plaster muqarnas, a fragile construction element. The muqarnas are key elements in the Nasrid archite ...

2019

Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and making heritage in Malaysia: a view from the historic cities of the Straits of Malacca

Florence Graezer Bideau

Based on the 'universal' values of economic development, democratic governance and cultural diversity promoted by UNESCO, the official policy of the Federation of Malaysia, known as Wawasan 2020 (Vision 2020), promotes modernization with an emphasis on dem ...

Taylor & Francis2012