ADCOM 2013/10 SYMP-EN
Ver. 2013/07/23
ICOMOS International Scientific Symposium
Tangible Risks, Intangible Opportunities: Long-Term Risk Preparedness and
Responses for Threats to Cultural Heritage
2013 Theme: Reducing Risks to Cultural Heritage from Uncontrolled
Development in a Globalized World
Thursday, 10 October 2013, San Jose, Costa Rica
9:00 – 9:30
Introduction
9:00 – 9:10
Rector of the University of Costa Rica
Henning Jensen PATTERSON
9:10 – 9:15
President of ICOMOS
Gustavo ARAOZ
9:15 – 9:20
President of ICOMOS Costa Rica
Ofelia SANOU ALFARO
9:20 – 9:25
Scientific Council Officer
Pamela JEROME
9:25 – 9:30
Symposium Co-Chairs
Sofia AVGERINOU-KOLONIAS
Gisle JAKHELLN
9:30 – 9:45
Key note on the Triennial theme
The Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of
Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and
its two Protocols, prevention and safeguarding tools
even during peacetime
Benjamin GOES
Chair of the Committee for the
Protection of Cultural Property
in the Event of Armed Conflict
(established under the Second
Protocol to the 1954 Hague
Convention)
9:45 – 10:30
Theme 1: The Importance of Identifying,
Understanding and Characterizing the Historical
and Cultural Urban and Rural Landscapes
9:45 – 10:00
Strategic Environmental Assessment: A method for
protecting and managing cultural heritage in the
development context
Arlene K. FLEMING
(USA)
10:00 – 10:15
Disaster Risk Reduction in Central America’s
cultural heritage: regional project
Claudia CARDENAS
BECERRA
(Costa Rica)
10:15 – 10:30
A Methodology for the Use of Historic Documents in
Urban Conservation
Duygu SABAN OKESLI
(Turkey)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:15
Havelis of Shekhawati: Encouraging and Engaging
Local Community in Protection and Preservation
Urvashi SRIVASTAVA
(India)
11:15 – 11:30
The continuity of historic wooden shop-houses:
Conservation methods and conceptual framework
Peeraya BOONPRASONG
(Thailand)
11:30 – 11:45
Territorial enhancement and socio-economic
support to the rural communities of Ebla (Syria)
A.PETRUCCIOLI
Giacomo MARTINES
C.MONTALBANO
C.CHIARANTONI
(Italy)
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11:45 – 13:15
Theme 2: Measures and Strategies for
Mitigating Risks from Population Growth,
Urbanization and Immigration
11:45 – 12:00
Spatial planning as a tool for heritage protection,
Costa Rica master plans
Rosendo PUJOL MESALLES
Karla BARRANTES CHAVES
Claudia LÓPEZ OVIEDO
(Costa Rica)
12:00 – 12:15
Testing the R-RET as a tool for a-priori evaluation
of retail-reuse projects
Bie PLEVOETS
Koenraad VAN CLEEMPOEL
(Belgium)
12:15– 12:30
The historic urban landscape of Tunis: Tools for
analysing the heritage process
Faika BEJAOUI
(Tunisia)
12:30– 12:45
New and old Architecture in Historic Cairo, Case
study of al-Darb al-Ahmar
Ahmed SAID AMER
(Egypt)
12:45 – 13:00
Back to the past – Reversing the effects of
urbanization at the historic site of Jogeshwari caves
in Mumbai
Brinda GAITONDE NAYAK
(India)
13:00 – 13:15
The Satanic Verses revisited: approaches to
heritage and development control in Central Sydney
Peter PHILLIPS
(Australia)
13:15 – 14:15
Lunch
14:15 – 15:30
Theme 3: Protecting Cultural Heritage in Times
of Tourism and Commercialization
14:15 – 14:30
Difficult buildings - challenging solutions: Adaptive
re-use of built heritage under urban pressure
Robyn RIDDETT
(Australia)
14:30 – 14:45
Case study: using quantitative and qualitative
knowledge integration methods to face
development challenges in environmental and
cultural management. What is the role of cultural
heritage in this problematic?
Ofelia SANOU ALFARO
(Costa Rica)
14:45 – 15:00
Tourism as a threat or opportunity: alliances to
mitigate risks in the preservation of intangible
cultural heritage in Costa Rica
Giselle CHANG VARGAS
(Costa Rica)
15:00 – 15:15
Heritage Site Preservation: The case of Quepos,
Costa Rica and its “Zona Americana” and “Zona
Cero”
Rosendo PUJOL MESALLES
Karla BARRANTES CHAVES
Claudia LÓPEZ OVIEDO
Daniela AVILA BOLANOS
(Costa Rica)
15:15 – 15:30
Protecting cultural heritage of Palanga in times of
tourism and commercialization
Marija NEMUNIENE
(Lithuania)
15:30 - 15:40
Introduction to Breakout Sessions
Can heritage be saved from globalization and
uncontrolled development?
Pamela Jerome
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15:40 – 17:00
Breakout sessions
Participants will join one of three breakout groups
that will discuss the possible contribution of
ICOMOS National and International Scientific
Committees to mitigate risks from globalization and
uncontrolled development, and that will suggest
possible collaborations and initiatives needed to
address each of the themes
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee break – coffee available outside during
the session
17:00 – 17:30
Presentation of conclusions
17:30
Closing