Webinar “Changing Heritage” with Professor Francesco Bandarin

This webinar focuses on Professor Bandarin’s most recent book Changing Heritage. Drawing on many years of experience working in senior positions at UNESCO, Professor Bandarin will discuss threats to heritage resulting from social and economic developments, political pressures, and unresolved historical issues.

Professor Francesco Bandarin is an Architect and Urban Planner, specialising in Urban Conservation. He holds degrees in Architecture (IUAV Venice) and City and Regional Planning (UC Berkeley). From 2000 to 2010 he was Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Secretary of the World Heritage Convention. From 2010 to 2018 he served as Assistant Director General of UNESCO for Culture.

He is a Senior Advisor to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a member of the Advisory Council of the Smithsonian Centre for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and of the Managing Board of the Santagata Foundation for the Economy of Culture (Turin, Italy). He is also a founder and member of OUR WORLD HERITAGE. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Series on Creativity Culture and the City. He consults for governments and heritage projects in different parts of the world.

When? April 25, 18:00 – 19:30 Kyiv time
Language: English with simultaneous translation to Ukrainian
Platform: Zoom (After filling out the registration form, you’ll receive a personalized link)

This series is part of the project “Architectural Heritage Preservation in Times of War: The Ukrainian Model” implemented by HERITΛGE in partnership with the Kharkiv School of Architecture and Skeiron.