Open Heritage Trainings on Adaptive Reuse

Introduction

OpenHeritage offers a training program developed and carried out by Eutropian and Platoniq which will take place from mid-October until mid-December and will be held every 2 weeks, starting from the 19th of October 2021. This series of training modules are aimed at professionals (e.g. city officials, urbanists and other experts, as well as stakeholders from outside of the EU, or partners from other EU projects working on cultural heritage, etc.) involved with Heritage Protection and Adaptive Reuse.

Details

Modules

The modules will cover each of the following topics: Heritage Reuse, Finance, Governance and Community Involvement, as well as Territorial Impact.

In each workshop, participants from different backgrounds and disciplines will go through and study a number of Observatory Cases, focusing on given themes for the first four workshops, and integrating all subtopics in a final, fifth, module. Each module will have an approximate duration of 2,5 hours with approximately 20 participants from a variety of countries.

Participation in the training is free of charge; but the number of are limited

Organisers

OpenHeritage aims at creating sustainable models of heritage asset management. The project puts the idea of inclusive governance of cultural heritage sites together with the development of heritage communities at its centre. This means empowering the community in the processes of adaptive reuse. The project is financed by the European Union's H2020 funding scheme.

Platoniq is an organisation that develops methods and tools for open innovation and design thinking solutions based on online and offline co-creation, resource distribution, and open, modular development at a transnational and multi-stakeholder level, for needs and opportunities in the local and European contexts.

Eutropian is an organisation focusing on advocacy, research and policy to support inclusive urban processes. Its areas of expertise include specialization in urban regeneration, cultural development, community participation, local economic development and social innovation.

Conference Venues

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Objectives

Module 1 - Heritage

Repurposing, reusing, and adapting heritage sites to local needs

19 October 2021

CET 16:00-19:30 led by Eutropian

Module 2 - Governance and Community

Involving different communities in participatory governance

2 November 2021

CET 16:00-19:30 led by Platoniq

Module 3 - Finance

Supporting economic sustainability of adaptive reuse projects

16 November 2021

CET 16:00-19:30 led by Platoniq

Module 4 - Territorial Impact

Territorial impact of adaptive reuse within the neighborhood

30 November 2021

CET 16:00-19:30 led by Eutropian

Module 5 - Integrated

An integrated model approach to adaptive heritage reuse

CET 14 December 2021

16:00-19:30 led by Eutropian and Platoniq

Interactive tools and methods are used throughout the modules which will also allow participants to virtually interact and network with other participants.