by Cécile Houpert | Mar 14, 2023 | News
Cultural Heritage in Action has now come to an end! The EU-funded peer-learning project for cities and regions on cultural heritage, financed by Creative Europe, brought together hundreds of local policy makers. The project was carried out by Eurocities, in...
by Cécile Houpert | Jan 31, 2023 | Cultural heritage for sustainable development, Good practices
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. A one stop shop to make heritage more sustainable. Making heritage more sustainable can lead to possibly conflicting situations between for instance interventions on windows, walls, putting solar panels on the roof of a building and its...
by Cécile Houpert | Jan 30, 2023 | Good practices, Participatory governance of cultural heritage, Recovery and resilience through cultural heritage
Naples, Italy. Caring for cultural heritage means caring for people. The Rione Sanità is one of the most ancient districts in Naples, boasting a rich cultural heritage. This includes catacombs from the Hellenistic and Christian eras, including two which still exist:...
by Cécile Houpert | Jan 30, 2023 | Cultural heritage for sustainable development, Good practices
Rezé, France. When everything is to be built, what place for cultural heritage? The municipality of Rezé and Nantes Metropole wanted to breathe new life to an abandoned industrial site and integrate it into the urban environment in an organic, non-intrusive way while...
by Cécile Houpert | Jan 30, 2023 | Cultural heritage for sustainable development, Good practices, Participatory governance of cultural heritage
Vilnius, Lithuania. Community capacity building programme. The renovation of residential houses, characteristic of the Old Town of Vilnius, requires financial, human resources and craft skills. A large part of this built heritage belongs to private owners, who may not...
by Cécile Houpert | Jan 18, 2023 | News, Peer learning visits
Alice Strömberg is a seventeen-year-old curator at the ‘My Castle, Your Castle project’ in Sweden. Last October, she spent three days on an immersive visit to the ancient city of Zaragoza, as part of Cultural Heritage in Action. After her stint in Spain, Strömberg...
by Cécile Houpert | Jan 18, 2023 | Good practices, Governance and financing
Glasgow, United Kingdom. Embedding anti-racism in the city’s cultural heritage. Racism is a centuries-old systematic way of thinking deeply embedded in Western society, which is extremely difficult to change. Addressing this through cultural heritage required new...
by Cécile Houpert | Jan 18, 2023 | Cultural heritage for sustainable development, Good practices
Reims, France. Towards a global environmental approach in the city museums. An ambitious sustainable transformation plan of the five city museums was rolled out over 2016-2025 including structural work on the museums’ infrastructure and collections but also...
by Cécile Houpert | Jan 16, 2023 | Cultural heritage for sustainable development, Good practices, Governance and financing
Genoa, Italy. A bottom up approach to urban regeneration. The city of Genoa adopted an inclusive and sustainable approach to managing its urban heritage in a period still marked by sanitary restrictions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. In February 2022, the...
by Cécile Houpert | Jan 16, 2023 | Good practices, Governance and financing
Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Heritage meets design for a new storytelling of the city. “heritage x design” is an initiative by the cultural department of the city of Eindhoven, Cultuur Eindhoven, pairing up heritage organisations with design organisations in order to...
