On 20 October, 2022, the Ljubljana City Museum hosted a symposium “Twentieth Century World Heritage: Challenges and Experience in the Management and Impact Assessment of Architectural Heritage”, organized by the Directorate for Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and chaired by Špela Spanžel.
The event was organized in the context of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 UNESCO Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and the 150th anniversary of Jože Plečnik’s birth, and was aimed at a broader discussion on the occasion of the inscription of Plečnik’s Ljubljana on the World Heritage List. The event brought together prominent international leaders from key institutions guiding World Heritage conservation (Alessandro Balsamo of the World Heritage Committee, Eugene Jo of ICCROM, Gwenaelle Bourdin of ICOMOS and others); and focused on the use and development of Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) tools, which can make a key contribution to the coherent and sustainable management of cultural heritage.
On behalf the UNESCO Chair in Interpretation and Education for the Promotion of Integrated Approaches to Heritage the symposium was attended by Assist. Prof. Dr. Neža Čebron Lipovec (UP FHŠ) and asst. Tim Mavrič (UP FAMNIT/IAM). Both are involved in a newly acquired major research project HEI TRANSFORM — Heritage for Inclusive Sustainable Transformation, which focuses on sustainable heritage and on the assessment of its impacts.
The full symposium can be watched at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PBCL0wgaf0