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Cultural heritage in Action! Register to the Sharing stories webinar #2 on adaptive re-use. Monday 4 April at 2pm CET

15.03.2022

We invite you to join a webinar exploring through concrete examples, the benefits of re-using heritage sites; challenges inherent to adaptive re-use projects; drivers of quality interventions on cultural heritage.
The webinar will be held on Monday 4 April at 14.00 CET, as part of our EU-funded Cultural Heritage in Action peer-learning programme.

Europe has a rich and multi-faceted built environment, incorporating strong spiritual, cultural, social and economic values. Due to evolutions in our economies and societies, many heritage sites, whether listed or not, are nowadays disused or have lost the functions for which they were originally built – notably industrial sites. However, heritage buildings that have lost their original function still embody their multiple values. Adaptive re-use offers itself as a strategy aimed at preserving the elements that contain these values, while at the same time adapting the place for new uses and meeting needs of our time. Through smart renovation and transformation, heritage sites can find new, mixed or extended uses. As a result, their social, environmental and economic value is increased, while their cultural significance is enhanced. 

Sensitive adaptive re-use of existing and historic buildings can also play a key role in Europe’s green transformation, avoiding energy-intensive new construction and land use, promoting waste-avoidance and preserving embodied energy while generating additional positive economic, environmental, social and cultural co-benefits. For this reason, the re-use of (industrial) heritage buildings offer many opportunities for advancing the goals of the New European Bauhaus initiative launched by the European Commission in 2020. 

As illustrated by the first phase of the Cultural Heritage in Action project, which had this topic as one of the main focuses, the adaptive re-use of our built heritage brings multiple benefits to individuals and society, for present and future generations. Yet, it can still be regarded as being an unviable option, while planning and building regulations may prevent the development of re-use projects.

Webinar Agenda
Webinar moderated by Lorena Aldana, European Policy Coordinator at Europa Nostra and Pierre Obajtek, Senior Policy Officer at Architects’ Council of Europe
● General introduction to the webinar by Lorena Aldana, European Policy Coordinator at Europa Nostra 
● Introduction to adaptive re-use in the European context by Ruth Schagemann, President of the Architects’ Council of Europe
● Presentation of Cukrarna's Gallery in Ljubljana by Blaž Peršin, Director of Museums and Galleries of Ljubljana 
● Presentation of KUMST creative hub in Brno by Zdeňka Hubáček Kujová, Director of Kumst and Tomas Kozelsky, KOGAA Founding Partner
● Presentation of Galerías Va in Valladolid by Guillaume Rousseau, Technical adviser at City Council of Valladolid
● Main learning points, transferability tips and things to remember by Pierre Obajtek, Senior Policy Officer at Architects’ Council of Europe 
● Q&A with the audience
● Conclusions and way forward by Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, Europa Nostra Secretary General

Webinar full programme and connecting details

Webinar Sharing stories #2: Webinar on Adaptive reuse of (industrial) buildings with a history
Date: 04/04/2022 14:00 - 15:30
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The detailed programme is available here.


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