Na Univerzi v Ljubljani bo v ponedeljek, 23. oktobra 2023 gostovala ugledna profesorica May Cassar, direktorica UCL Instituta za trajnostno dediščino.
Predstavila bo vabljeno predavanje z naslovom “Sustainable Heritage – a Clarion Call for Our Time”
Predavanje se bo pričelo ob 17h v Senatni dvorani Univerze, Kongresni trg 12, sledita debata in druženje.
Predavanje bo v angleškem jeziku.
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POVZETEK V ANGLEŠKEM JEZIKU
At the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, we have debated and developed the concept of Sustainable Heritage for almost a quarter of a century. In a book with the eponymous title (2023), the symbiotic relationship between heritage for sustainability and sustainability for heritage has been explored both theoretically and practically.
Heritage values and risk, participatory heritage, dissonant heritage and sustainable transformations whether urban, suburb or rural, are all underpinned by societal attitudes to the environment, the place of heritage in the environment and how human interactions with the environment impact on cultural heritage materials and values. Through decisions we make often very far away from, and without any thought of heritage, we influence the options that are available for the future. This presentation is a strongly expressed demand or request for action: not to prevaricate, not to be distracted, to be focussed and single minded in cross-disciplinary efforts to sustaining heritage. From practitioners to policymakers we need to listen the clarion call of scientists. The 2023 Recommendations of the IPCC-ICOMOS-UNESCO International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change outline the urgent need to improve our understanding of the role of culture and heritage as indispensable enabling conditions to transformative climate action and climate resilient sustainable development, including how attention to culture can help avoid maladaptation and mal-mitigation.
I will draw on the global research experience of ISH, namely:
- The development of indices for extreme rain events to predict how gutters over flow
- Our understanding of wet stone, salts and deterioration and measuring moisture content in stone
- Fluid dynamic simulation of wind driven rain in Scotland
- Community responses to flooding in Florence using social media
I will consider parallel examples in Slovenia to demonstrate that that the challenges are often similar/same. I will make the case for collaborative research and for the importance of shared decision making through resource sharing (ISH-L MoU) and international collaboration (ERIHS, JPI).
O PREDAVATELJICI
Profesorica May Cassar je direktorica Inštituta za trajnostno dediščino na UCL. Od leta 2013 vodi EPSRC Center za doktorsko izobraževanje na področju znanosti in inženirstva v umetnosti, dediščini in arheologiji, večmilijonsko investicijo britanske vlade za izobraževanje naslednje generacije dediščinskih znanstvenikov na doktorski ravni. Med leti 2007-2014 je May vodila program Science and Heritage AHRC/EPSRC, prvo večjo investicijo v dediščiinsko znanost, ki združuje različne znanstvene discipline. Med leti 2005-06 je bila May posebna svetovalka pri preiskavi Odbora za znanost in tehnologijo Gornjega doma britanskega parlamenta, ki je oblikoval izraz “dediščinska znanost”.
May je v zadnjih dveh desetletjih vodila ponovni vzpon raziskovalne dejavnosti na področju dediščinske znanosti v Združenem kraljestvu, za kar je leta 2012 prejela Plowdenovo zlato medaljo. Leta 2021 je bila May imenovana za Častno poveljnico najodličnejšega Reda britanskega imperija s strani pokojne kraljice za svoje zasluge na področju dediščinske znanosti.
Na mednarodni ravni je May so-predsednica Svetovalnega in znanstvenega odbora JPI Cultural Heritage in članica Odbora nacionalnih vozlišč E-RIHS kot voditeljica nacionalnega vozlišča za dediščinsko znanost Združenega kraljestva.
