Cultural Heritage: Opportunity for Improving Civic Engagement
Белорусский комитет ICOMOS объявляет сбор кейсов об эффективности Государственного списка историко-культурных ценностей в сохранении памятников. Дедлайн – 10 июня.
The ICOMOS Belarusian Committee announces the collection of cases on the effectiveness of the State List of Historical and Cultural Values as a tool of the safeguarding the cultural monuments.
27-28 марта Беларусский комитет ICOMOS и МНГО “ЕвроБеларусь” провели экспертный онлайн-семинар о расширении возможностей участия сообществ в управлении историко-культурным наследием.
On March 27-28, the Belarus Committee of ICOMOS and the INGO EuroBelarus held an online expert workshop on expanding opportunities for community participation in the governance of historical and cultural heritage.
These and other issues were discussed by the partners of the international “Creative Eastern Partnership” project during the working meeting on September 13-16, held in Yerevan.
Международный проект «Креативное Восточное партнерство» предлагает консультирование и помощь по участию в программе «Креативная Европа» для организаций и инициатив, работающих в сфере культурного наследия в Украине, Молдове, а также Армении и Беларуси.
Dear friends and colleagues, We are glad to present the final publication on all the work done together with our participants in Armenia, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine in 2015-2017.
Our expert in issues of forming identity and mentality on local visual codes, professional designer and artist Michal Aniempadystau prepared a special report for our meeting in Brussels and further at a Belarusian discussion. We found it so deep and touching, that soon it became a distinct material. Here we suggest the whole text to your attention.
I was born and grew up when a city’s historical or cultural heritage used to live its own life separated from the city residents. The heritage facilities did exist physically, some of them even protected by virtue of their legacy status; yet, they were devoid of any substance and there was little we knew about them, if anything at all.
Individual buildings or their groups and ensembles, streets, squares, roundabouts or parks used to constitute part of a physical urban space which was deprived of history or stories, or any associative relations inside. It was just a space, flat and monotonous, like a newly built asphalt road pavement: distances between random points on an imaginary map.
The final event of the two-year EU funded project “CHOICE – Cultural Heritage: Opportunity for Improving Civic Engagement” was held on 6 June at the Committee of the Regions, in Brussels. The event was organized by ALDA with the support