World Heritage, Climate Change and Resilience

heritage under climate change induced threats

organized on the occasion of the ICOMOS International Day for Monuments and Sites

14.00-16:30 Beijing time (UTC+8)

Link:

http://guojiang.org/zhibo/2023-04-21/

The 1st 2023 WHITRAP Shanghai World Heritage Dialogue is organized on the occasion of the ICOMOS International Day for Monuments and Sites (18th April). The 2023 ICOMOS Day theme is “Heritage Changes” in accordance with the ICOMOS Three-Year Scientific Plan (2021-2024) and the 2020 ICOMOS Resolution on a Human-Centered Perspective on Heritage.

On 21 April 2023 from 14:00-16:30 Beijing time (UTC+8), the WHITRAP Shanghai World Heritage Dialogue will discuss World Heritage, Climate Change and Resilience – Disaster response and Emergency risk preparedness for heritage under climate change induced threats. In this round table Chinese and international scholars, experts and heritage managers will discuss how to respond to the threat of climate change and how to deal with the emergency climate risks, and share their experiences and reflections.

This Dialogue will continue the discussion on climate change, which was held on 14th September 2022 at the 4th WHITRAP Shanghai World Heritage Dialogue titled “World Heritage and Climate Change and Resilience. Heritage as a solution to confront Climate Change: Perspectives and tools.”

The written summary of the session is available at:

http://www.whitr-ap.org/index.php?classid=1461&newsid=3354&t=show

The video recording is available at:

http://heritap.whitr-ap.org/index.php?classid=12497&id=38&t=show

The previous Dialogue, discussed more of the theoretical basis of climate change, heritage response to disasters, and the use and function of heritage itself as a tool to cope with climate change induced threats in relationship with its surrounding environment. The objective of the 2023 Dialogue is to further focus on practice. In addition to our understanding of climate change, scholars, experts and heritage managers will share their working experience and reflections on several issues such as what needs to be done to complement and strengthen heritage conservation and management under climate change threat? What are the traditions and indigenous knowledge that should be carried forward? How to further link sustainable development and cultural heritage conservation practice.

Language

The online Dialogue will be bilingual with simultaneous interpretation. Video recordings of the Dialogue and a brief synthesis will be published online on the WHITRAP website.

• 14:00-14:05 Welcome and general introduction

         Prof. SHAO Yong, CAUP-Tongji, Executive Director WHITRAP-Shanghai

• 14:05-14:15 Introduction to Dialogue 1

         Marie-Noël TOURNOUX, Project Director, WHITRAP Shanghai

               Presentation of the participants

               Group Photo

• 14:15-14:30 World Heritage, Climate Change and Resilience

          Dr. MU Xingyu, Project Director, WHITRAP Shanghai.

• 14:30-15:20 Pecha Kucha (6 min/speaker)

         YAN Haiming, Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow at China Academy of Cultural Heritage, Director of ICOMOS China Secretariat

         Rohit JIGYASU, Project Manager on Urban Heritage, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, ICCROM

         FANG Yuan, Director of Heritage Office, Huangshan Scenic Area Management Committee, China

• 15:20-16:20 Round Table Discussion

         Moderator: Dr. MU Xingyu, Project Director, WHITRAP Shanghai

• 16:20-16:30 Wrap up

         Marie-Noël TOURNOUX, Project Director, WHITRAP Shanghai

                                              

CAUP-Tongji University, Shanghai

Executive Director WHITRAP Shanghai

Marie-Noël TOURNOUX

Project Director, WHITRAP Shanghai

Dr. MU Xingyu

Project Director, WHITRAP Shanghai

Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow at China Academy of Cultural Heritage

Director of ICOMOS China Secretariat

Rohit JIGYASU

Project Manager on Urban Heritage, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, ICCROM

FANG Yuan

Director of Heritage Office, Huangshan Scenic Area Management Committee, China

LEI Yaxian

Director of Pingyao County Cultural Heritage Institute, China

JIANG Huiyuan

Party Secretary and Director of the Cultural and Tourism Bureau of Lucheng District, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, China

FENG Jianrong

Director, Shaoxing City Cultural and Historical Research Museum, China

Adam MARKHAM

Deputy Director of the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists

For more information, you can refer to the booklet.

 2023 reader EN

contributed by: Mu Xingyu, Marie-Noël Tournoux

edited by: Wang Tianxiang

typeset: Xu Yining (intern), Wang Yanrui (intern)