Course: Cultural Heritage and the City

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …