This week’s BLOG is dedicated to the city of Beirut in Cultural Heritage Justice, looking at how the city is rebuilding, but here are some articles to show what is going on and some very haunting images. I did draw a comparison as to how the world reacted to the restoration of the heritage of Beirut and how it has reacted to the heritage of Notre Dame.
Beirut Heritage Initiative – A incredible NGO doing fantastic work in Beirut visit the site and let me know if you think there are opportunities for collaborations.
Notre Dame restoration is moving on, and as we see the end of the Olympics in one city in 3 years, we will be in Paris. Cultural Connection Blog also looks at how the world reacted to the restoration of Notre Dame and how it has reacted to the restoration of heritage in Beirut.
News this week was not all that uplifting with lockdown blues setting in and numbers not improving; the IPCC delivered what a lot of us knew was coming to a bleak outlook on the health check of our world.
The fact that this report came out as fire-ravaged my My Heritage Connections in Greece. The images could not have been more obvious of the climate crisis our world faces at the moment. I will provide an update on the damage and devastation of cultural heritage sites
Off the back of IPCC, as it is inevitable, we will see impacts of Climate Migration, Climate refugees, whichever term you chose, people on the move (not by choice) but due to climate change. One of my big interest areas is the impact climate change has on heritage and world heritage sites. My Cultural Heritage Justice BLOGS will be looking at these issues in the future. Of particular importance is how as heritage consultants, we will need to deal with making our heritage buildings more sustainable
This week, designs were unveiled for Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre (AACC) at the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site on Kaurna land. It is these buildings that encourage conversations we need to have, and for that, I welcome these initiatives
And looking at the role of museums and galleries on our urban landscape, the Art Gallery Forecourt Design was also released. I am sure there will be opinions mine for now reserved, and I look forward to is getting out of lockdown to enjoy any public space
It is not only the beauty of the design that captured me in this project but the beauty of the words of the architect Amelia Tavella, which in part have been extracted below. I encourage you to view the images of this project.
“Building after ruins is the past and modernity embracing each other, making the promise never to betray each other. One becomes the other, and no one is erased.”
Amelia Tavella
World of Archaeology and Research
Stonehenge – back in the day when you could take a core sample from a World Heritage site. Well, it’s not done now (Thank the Heritage Gods). This story is a fascinating read tracing the journey of a core sample of a significant site, and the secrets of that core sample can now tell us.
https://www.livescience.com/stonehenge-pillars-mesozoic.html?utm_source=notification
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