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2nd HERMES Symposium: Practical Aspects of Cultural Heritage Krakow 2005

 

 Over the roofs of Krakow

 

2nd HERMES Symposium:

Practical Aspects of Cultural Heritage – promotion, utilization, and its consequences

 

Pawel Kaminski and Dora Gyarmathy

 

Date: 28 - 29 October 2005

Venue: Radio Kraków, al. Juliusza Słowackiego 22, 30-007 Kraków

Organizers: Radio Kraków, Małopolska Institute of Culture (MIK), Ethnographic Museum, Foundation Weimar Classic & Art Collections, Bauhaus-University Weimar

 

      

              On the way from hotel to Radio Krakow - the signs of the year


Programme

(preliminary draft, 19 October 2005)

Friday, 28 October 2005

(8.00 a.m.-9.00 a.m.: registration of participants at Radio Kraków)

9.00 a.m.: OPENING

Janusz Andrzejowski (Radio Kraków/PL):
Welcome address

                                

 

Krzysztof Markiel (Department of Education and Culture of the Marshall’s Office of Małopolska voivodship, Kraków/PL)[to be confirmed]:
Welcome address

Burkhardt Kolbmüller (SALVE Consult and Classic Foundation Weimar, Weimar/D):
Welcome address

                               

 

10.00 a.m.–12.30 a.m.: Introduction

(chair: Brian Graham)

Sebastian Schröder-Esch (Bauhaus University Weimar/D):
General introduction to the symposium, and to the HERMES project

~~ coffee break (20 min) ~~

Zdzisław Mach (Jagiellonian University, Kraków/PL):
Multicultural heritage, remembering, forgetting and the construction of identity

Kerstin Manz (UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Paris/F):
World Heritage - from the concept to its implementation

Karolina Tylus (Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw/PL):
Culture as a factor of social and economic development - Polish experiences with structural funds in the cultural sector and the perspectives on future EU regional policy

~~ 12.30 a.m.–1.30 p.m.: lunch break in the canteen of Radio Kraków ~~

1.30 p.m.–2.30 p.m.: TEACHING (WITH) HERITAGE

(chair: N.N.)

                           

                            Justus H. Ulbricht (second from left)

 

Justus H. Ulbricht (Classic Foundation Weimar/D):
Business or education? Ambiguities in dealing with European cultural heritage - the example of Weimar

Bertram Welker (Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus/D):
Heritage education at the university - concepts and experiences

N.N. (International Cultural Centre, MCK, Kraków/PL):
The ICC’s Academy of Heritage[speaker & excact title to be announced]

Ania Dobranowska (Małopolska Institute of Culture (MIK), Kraków/PL):
Where bees met Jacobson – heritage sites as places of civic education. First experiences from the Museum of Beekeeping in Stróże (Małopolska)

~~ coffee break (20 min) ~~

3.00 p.m.–5.30 p.m.: (RE)PRESENTING HERITAGE

(chair: Justus H. Ulbricht)

Giovanni Pinna (Italian Association of Museological Studies and Journal ‘Nuova Museologia’, Milano/I):
The intellectual organization of museums

Hatto Fischer (Poiein kai Prattein, Athens/GR):
Museums as parameters of cultural dispositions of societies to remember their problematic futures

                          

            Hatto Fischer holding up a photo of Churchill by Jozef Karsh

 

~~ coffee break (20 min) ~~

 

Uta Hengelhaupt (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt-Oder/D):
Research, survey and evaluation of historical landscape elements as part of the ‘Freyenstein Archeological Park’ project [title to be confirmed]

 

Łucja Piekarska (Małopolska Institute of Culture, Kraków/PL):
Mental time machines: internalizing heritage in action

 

~~ evening break ~~

7.00-9.00 p.m.: RECEPTION

 

                       

Official reception at the Ethnographic Museum (plac Wolnica 1, Kraków Kazimierz), hosted by Dr Andrzej Rataj

Saturday, 29 October 2005

9.00 a.m.–11.45 a.m.: Developing (with) heritage

(chair: N.N.)

Eva Kralová (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava/SK):
Cultural traditions as an aspect of spatial planning and local development - examples and experiences from Slovakia

Kerstin Greiling, Jana Laasch (German Association for Housing, Berlin/D):
The European Route of Brick Gothic (EuRoB) – a case study of valorizing architectural heritage for local and regional development

Monika Murzyn (International Cultural Centre, MCK, Kraków/PL):
New interpretations and commercialisation of heritage in Krakow after 1989

~~ coffee break (20 min) ~~

(chair: Joachim S. Russek [to be confirmed])

Irena Ograjenšek (University of Ljubljana/SLO):
Cultural Tourism as a Catalyst of Regional Economic Development: Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Célia Galeotti (dwif, Magdeburg/D):
The trans-European Route of Romanesque Architecture (Transromanica)

Sylvia Amann (project STRATCULT, Upper Austria/A)
Cultural Strategy Development in the framework of EU-Structural Funds 2007-2013

~~ coffee break (30 min) ~~

12.15 a.m.–1.00 p.m.: CONCLUSION & FINAL DISCUSSION

(chair: Sebastian Schröder-Esch)

                             

 

Brian Graham (University of Ulster, Coleraine/UK):
Heritage, place and identity

Burkhardt Kolbmüller (SALVE Consult and Classic Foundation Weimar, Weimar/D):
Culture, heritage and regional development in the system of European Structural Funds. Expectations and strategies for the future

~~ 1.00 p.m.–2.00 p.m.: lunch break ~~

2 p.m.–∞: FIELD TRIP TO NOWA HUTA & DOŁĘGA

Excursion by bus and private cars to Nowa Huta and Dołęga manor-house, organized by the Małopolska Institute of Culture (MIK); general meeting point: entrance of Hotel IBIS;
return to Kraków approximately at 8 p.m.

Sunday, 30 October 2005

9.30 a.m.–11.30 a.m.: GUIDED TOUR OF Kraków-Kazimierz

 

            

 

Guided walking tour of Kazimierz, the former Jewish quarter of Kraków, by Dr Monika Murzyn (MCK/ICC)

 

           

            Former synagogue used for exhibition purposes

 

               

                Monika explaining the Ruma synagogue

 

11.30a.m.–1.00 p.m.: RECEPTION

Inofficial reception at the Jewish Cultural Centre (ul. Meiselsa 17, Kraków-Kazimierz), hosted by Joachim S. Russek (Judaica Foundation)

 

    

     Alley near Judaica Centre where part of the film 'Schindler's List' was shot

 

Background

HERMES (‘Heritage and New Media for Sustainable Regional Development’) was a joint initiative of 16 institutions from eight countries. The project was co-financed by the EU as part of the community initiative Interreg III B CADSES during 2004-2006. The project searched for innovative ways of utilizing and preserving cultural heritage by employing new media technology. The ultimate aim was to explore the potential of cultural heritage as a factor of sustainable regional development (during the project life time one central website provided all the information, but which is no longer accessible today: www.swkk.de/hermes).

Four symposia were organized as part of the scientific research accompanying HERMES and which was primarily co-ordinated by the Institute of European Urban Studies at Bauhaus-University Weimar. The main results of these conferences were published in English in a new series at Bauhaus University Press.

Intention and structure of the symposium

The 2nd HERMES symposium served the purpose to discuss the relevance of the concept of ‘cultural heritage’ in practical fields such as spatial planning, tourism, conservation, place-marketing, regional development strategies etc. Opportunities and risks of practical heritage work in the field of tension between preservation and utilization were also investigated, with particular regard to the issue of commercialization.

A second focus explored possible ways of dealing and working with cultural heritage, e.g. the question, how cultural heritage can be presented by means of new media, in museums etc., and what effect this may have on the heritage itself.

                                  

                              The blacksmith workshop - a relict of the past

                              Ethnological Museum, Krakow

 

The conference aimed to facilitate discussions between practitioners and theoreticians of heritage, with regard to opportunities, limitations and risks in heritage work. Practical examples were presented, especially from Central and Eastern Europe. After the symposium, guided excursions to interesting heritage sites in and around Kraków took place.

The symposium covered the following main topics:

Cultural Heritage’ – an attempt at defining and conceptualizing a key term of HERMES

The term of ‘cultural heritage’ stood at the very centre of HERMES, and it was the point of departure for all our activities. Therefore, it was essential for the further course of the project to elaborate a working definition which reflects the richness, as well as the ambiguity of the term, and which should be applicable to the various activities within HERMES. In this session, the various facets of ‘heritage’ were explored and discussed, especially advantages and drawbacks of a constructionist approach.

Main political actors in the heritage sector in Europe

Here, main actors in the heritage sector in the European context were identified and presented, mainly on the supranational level (e.g. UNESCO, CoE, EU), but also on the national and regional or local levels. How is cultural heritage defined by these actors, and what are their intentions, approaches, expectations, priorities, strategies, means etc.? Of particular interest was the question as to how cultural heritage is linked to the issue of regional development (e.g. in the European Union Structural Funds).

Presenting and promoting cultural heritage in museums, in the media and in education

      

 

                     Visit to the Ethnological Museum with Dr. Andrzej Rataj

Cultural heritage needs to be known and acknowledged, otherwise its significance will be lost. Thus, one has to ask about possible ways and means of conveying this significance, in order to keep heritage alive and functioning. For the HERMES project, the main fields of interest were museums, media, and education. Therefore, the guiding questions of this session were: How can the notion of (or: the knowledge about) cultural heritage be taught and disseminated? Are there practical experiences from educational events? How do mass media (or new media) and cultural heritage relate to each other? How could cultural heritage be promoted and preserved with the help of (mass) media? What are limitations, or even dangers, inherent in the presentation and promotion of heritage? One explicit aim of this discussion round was not only to articulate theoretical considerations and to exchange experiences, but also to establish networks for future co-operation.

Utilizing and valorizing cultural heritage – consequences and effects

HERMES’ explicit aim was ‘to promote and to support sustainable regional development by innovative interactions of cultural heritage and the new electronic media’. Yet what is the connection between heritage and regional development? What effect do the two phenomena have on each other? In more concrete terms: What can cultural heritage contribute to the economic and social development of (regional) communities, and what not? Inhowfar is this taken into account in spatial planning? In this session, positive and negative effects of heritage tourism, and of the commodification of heritage in general, were discussed, as well as non-economic aspects of valorization. Furthermore, the issue of identity-building and place-marketing were explored. Theoretical considerations were illustrated by various case-examples.

Final discussion & concluding remarks

The intention of the symposium was not only to exchange views and experiences concerning practical aspects of heritage work in a l’art pour l’art fashion, but also to elaborate policy recommendations as to how the issue cultural heritage should be integrated in spatial planning processes and regional development strategies. One important question in this regard has to be, inhowfar heritage is affected by its utilization for economic purposes. Is there a danger of abuse, and eventually loss of significance, through the commodification of heritage? What should be the priority? A synthesis of all the contributions to the symposium were meant not only to lead to the formulation of policy recommendations, but also to valuable conclusions for HERMES itself and its particular pilot activities.

 

Contact

Please contact Sebastian Schröder-Esch, M.A., M.E.S. for further information and/or proposals for presentations.

 

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