Sum-up of the week
Hi everyone! Congratulations! You have made it to the end of this week’s program! Now, let us sum up what we have learned this week: What is heritage? Heritage is …
Course: Cultural Heritage and the City
What does cultural heritage bring to urban life?
Jasper Chalcraft, Peter Inkei, and Cornelia Dümcke tell us what cultural heritage brings to urban life. What is your opinion? What does heritage bring to your life?
Berlin and its heritage
Berlin appears as a proactive city in terms of its use of heritage as a tool in the strategy for development. Cornelia Dümcke explains how. In this interview, she gives …
Cities and heritage
In this video, we will travel around the world to look at how different cities speak of their heritage. We mention cases ranging from Rome to Shanghai and Barcelona in …
Urbanisation and globalisation
The process of urbanisation is part and parcel of the process of globalisation. Globalisation “refers to the widening, deepening and speeding up of global interconnectedness” and includes four socio-spatial dimensions …
An urbanising world
In this video, we look into the challenges and opportunities that urbanization poses to cultural heritage. Learn about the current trends and projections on urbanization around the world and about …
What are the aims of heritage policy?
There are several competing aims within heritage and broader cultural policy. The first and perhaps most obvious object of heritage policy is the glorification of the past, of its beauty …
Heritage studies and cultural heritage policies
How do we relate with our past? How do we preserve our past? Cultural heritage studies and policies assume the role of discovering, classifying, ordering, protecting, preserving, and even promoting …
Definitions of heritage according to the cultural context
Can the concept of cultural heritage take on different meanings according to the cultural context? Nick Dines argues that the ways in which cultural heritage is understood can vary according …
Distinguish culture from heritage
Many learners ask how is heritage different from culture? Indeed there is confusion between the two concepts, especially when they are used in everyday conversation. To put it simply, heritage …
Types of heritage
Until the late 20th century, heritage was mainly conceived in its material form: sites, buildings, objects. Today more attention is paid to intangible heritage, notably practices, ideas, music, rituals, ways …
What is cultural heritage?
What is cultural heritage about? In this video, we question what is commonly viewed as cultural heritage. We go through elements usually referred to as cultural heritage, and explain widely-used …
Meet the team
The following educators have collaborated for the production of this course: The following educators have collaborated for the production of this course: Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada …