General

Welcome to the OpenHeritage participatory platform!

OpenHeritage is a European wide project that explores how participatory processes can be applied to heritage. Each site within the project is working to identify best practices for adaptive heritage re-use in Europe in their given context. Drawing on these observations and results, the project will develop inclusive governance and digital management models for marginalized heritage sites and will create resources that will be transferred and passed on to others.

OpenHeritage stands for Organizing, Promoting and Enabling Heritage Re-use through Inclusion, Technology, Access, Governance and Empowerment.

The Six Cooperative Heritage Labs

Six sites throughout Europe have been chosen as pilots, representing different collaborative models and types of heritage:

Praga is a former working class neighborhood in Warsaw where they aim to map, connect and empower all existing local actors to protect the local heritage and manage the redevelopment beyond commercial branding initiatives 

Hof Prädikow is a manor house in Germany where to foster new sustainable coexistence between rural and urban areas 

Marquês de Abrantes is a semi-abandoned peri-urban heritage site in Lisbon, where to promote urban renewal and to create a social and creative community center 

The main street of the industrial city of Sunderland (UK) is in need of redevelopment with the aim of capacity building among local stakeholders fighting deprivation through innovative funding

Centocelle Archaeological Park in Rome has developed a Community Cooperative and aspire to create community based revitalization and participation with local residents

Pomáz-Nagykovácsi-puszta is an environmental and cultural heritage site, manorial complex of a medieval monastery near Budapest where the aim is to explore new ways of collaboration between various stakeholders and to find a sustainable management model that exhibits the site.