ICOMOS Webinar series | OCD-RBA Heritage Thursdays 3
ICOMOS Webinar Series I OCD-RBA Heritage Thursdays 3When : Thursday 26th August 2021
12:00pm – 2:00pm CET
ICOMOS Webinar Series I OCD-RBA
Our Common Dignity Rights-Based Approaches Working Group “Heritage Thursdays” webinars 2021 with the focus being the People-Centred Approaches Resolution
Session 3 will explore Trauma and Heritage with the ICOMOS Emerging Professionals Working Group
Trauma can be inflicted in many circumstances following natural disasters and armed conflicts, affecting entire communities, and can even be transmitted from one generation to the next (transgenerational trauma). Indeed, these events (earthquakes, tsunami, pandemic, colonialism, terrorism, domestic conflicts, displacement, ethnic and cultural cleansing, etc.) can cause deep wounds and damage to the psyche of those affected. Consequently, such events and traumas can impact and transform tangible and intangible cultural heritage practices (changing local traditions) and materiality (caused by, e.g., a tsunami or bombing), and/or in their interpretation (heritage dissonant in its contrast of meanings and values between past and present).
By encouraging people-centred approaches, decision-makers enable heritage to become a resource for conflict resolution and for the social, economic and cultural development of the territory in which it is located. Through case studies in different contexts, the webinar will reflect on the role of cultural heritage conservation in addressing the trauma experienced by local communities.