FORGET HERITAGE CONFERENCE
These old houses need new stories – How to manage cultural heritage sites successfully?
Ljubljana, 21/03/2017
On 21 March 2017 the Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region with its Regional Creative Economy Centre hosted the international Forget Heritage Conference on Best Practices in City Museum Ljubljana, where partecipated the KIKK Association as project partner.
The aim of the conference was to promote (re)use of historical sites for new community contents, to present up to date examples of successful management of cultural heritage sites and to encourage integration of different communities - from local to a variety of creative and life-style communities for new economic practices - with an emphasis on the fields of cultural and creative industries.
The presentations helped to understand the challenges and best practices of heritage management concerning abandoned historical venues in cities.
The keynote speaker of the conference, Tiva Montalbano, Director of Heritage Strategy at The Prince's Regeneration Trust, United Kingdom had a very inspiring lecture about their experiences connected to cultural heritage activities.
The conference was closed by roud table and study visit, on which we got the chance to see many good practices of revitalizing culture heritage sites - Stara mestna elektrarna - Elektro Ljubljana, Meteklova mesto (Metelkova City), Hostel Celica, Kino Šiška and the building of the slovenian pilot project Vodnikova domačija.
More info:
THESE-OLD-HOUSES-NEED-NEW-STORIES
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