Heritage and participative conservation

Course description

The objective of the training is acquiring reflective capacities and critic skills over territorial planning strategies and heritage management strategies, with a particular focus on the role of cultural and natural policies social impact. The course will provide tools and skills to reflect on how to strengthen the role of communities in the integrated management of cultural and natural heritage, starting from the valuable concept of regeneration. The training will provide tools for community engagement, lobbysm and public advocacy actions to support the development of methodologies that can foster active citizenship, with the ultimate aim to make international institutions reflections concrete into the Italian sector scenario. In particular the course will aim: -To guide reflection on the democratic value of the dialectics between cultural heritage, environment and society - To facilitate reflection on how to strengthen the role of community on the integrated management of heritage - To promote development of conscious methodologies for active citizenship.

Prerequisites

Graduates and students attending the last year of sector university courses (culture) that have gained professional experiences and professionals with at least 5-year experience. Basic knowledge of English is required.