Ver. 2013/07/23 /
ICOMOS International Scientific Symposium
Tangible Risks, Intangible Opportunities: Long-Term Risk Preparedness and Responses for Threats to Cultural Heritage
2013 Theme: Reducing Risks to Cultural Heritage from Uncontrolled Developmentin a Globalized World
Thursday, 10 October 2013, San Jose, Costa Rica
9:00 – 9:30 / Introduction9:00 – 9:10 / Rector of the University of Costa Rica / Henning Jensen PATTERSON
9:10 – 9:15 / President of ICOMOS / Gustavo ARAOZ
9:15 – 9:20 / President of ICOMOS Costa Rica / Ofelia SANOU ALFARO
9:20 – 9:25 / Scientific Council Officer / Pamela JEROME
9:25 – 9:30 / Symposium Co-Chairs / Sofia AVGERINOU-KOLONIAS
Gisle JAKHELLN
Key note on the Triennial theme
9:30 – 9:45 / The Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two Protocols, prevention and safeguarding tools even during peacetime / Benjamin GOES
Chair of the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (established under the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention)
9:45 – 10:30 / Theme 1: The Importance of Identifying, Understanding and Characterizing the Historical and Cultural Urban and Rural Landscapes
9:45 – 10:00 / Strategic Environmental Assessment: A method for protecting and managing cultural heritage in the development context / Arlene K. FLEMING
(USA)
10:00 – 10:15 / Disaster Risk Reduction in Central America’s cultural heritage: regional project / Claudia CARDENAS BECERRA
(Costa Rica)
10:15 – 10:30 / A Methodology for the Use of Historic Documents in Urban Conservation / Duygu SABAN OKESLI (Turkey)
10:30 - 11:00 / Coffee break
11:00 – 11:15 / Havelis of Shekhawati: Encouraging and Engaging Local Community in Protection and Preservation / Urvashi SRIVASTAVA
(India)
11:15 – 11:30 / The continuity of historic wooden shop-houses: Conservation methods and conceptual framework / Peeraya BOONPRASONG
(Thailand)
11:30 – 11:45 / Territorial enhancement and socio-economic supportto the rural communities of Ebla (Syria) / A.PETRUCCIOLI
Giacomo MARTINES
C.MONTALBANO
C.CHIARANTONI
(Italy)
11:45 – 13:15 / Theme 2: Measures and Strategies for Mitigating Risks from Population Growth, Urbanization and Immigration
11:45 – 12:00 / Spatial planning as a tool for heritage protection, Costa Rica master plans / Rosendo PUJOL MESALLES
Karla BARRANTES CHAVES
Claudia LÓPEZ OVIEDO
(Costa Rica)
12:00 – 12:15 / Testing the R-RET as a tool for a-priori evaluation of retail-reuse projects / Bie PLEVOETS
Koenraad VAN CLEEMPOEL (Belgium)
12:15– 12:30 / The historic urban landscape of Tunis: Tools for analysing the heritage process / Faika BEJAOUI
(Tunisia)
12:30– 12:45 / New and old Architecture in Historic Cairo, Case study of al-Darb al-Ahmar / Ahmed SAID AMER
(Egypt)
12:45 – 13:00 / Back to the past – Reversing the effects of urbanization at the historic site of Jogeshwari caves in Mumbai / Brinda GAITONDE NAYAK (India)
13:00 – 13:15 / The Satanic Verses revisited: approaches to heritage and development control in Central Sydney / Peter PHILLIPS
(Australia)
13:15 – 14:15 / Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 / Theme 3: Protecting Cultural Heritage in Times of Tourism and Commercialization
14:15 – 14:30 / Difficult buildings - challenging solutions: Adaptive re-use of built heritage under urban pressure / Robyn RIDDETT
(Australia)
14:30 – 14:45 / Case study:usingquantitative andqualitativeknowledgeintegration methodsto face development challenges inenvironmental and cultural management. What is the roleof cultural heritage inthis problematic? / Ofelia SANOU ALFARO
(Costa Rica)
14:45 – 15:00 / Tourism as a threat or opportunity: alliances to mitigate risks in the preservation of intangible cultural heritage in Costa Rica / Giselle CHANG VARGAS
(Costa Rica)
15:00 – 15:15 / Heritage Site Preservation: The case of Quepos, Costa Rica and its “Zona Americana” and “Zona Cero” / Rosendo PUJOL MESALLES
Karla BARRANTES CHAVES
Claudia LÓPEZ OVIEDO
Daniela AVILA BOLANOS
(Costa Rica)
15:15 – 15:30 / Protecting cultural heritage of Palanga in times of tourism and commercialization / Marija NEMUNIENE
(Lithuania)
15:30- 15:40 / Introduction to Breakout Sessions
Can heritage be saved from globalization and uncontrolled development? / Pamela Jerome
15:40 – 17:00 / Breakout sessions
Participants will join one of three breakout groups that will discuss the possible contribution of ICOMOS National and International Scientific Committees to mitigate risks from globalization and uncontrolled development, and that will suggest possible collaborations and initiatives needed to address each of the themes
16:30 - 17:00 / Coffee break – coffee available outside during the session
17:00 – 17:30 / Presentation of conclusions
17:30 / Closing