The 3rd WHITRAP Shanghai World Heritage Dialogues, was held on 17 August 2022. It focused on "World Heritage and the Digital Revolution. New technologies supporting the '5Cs' Strategic Objectives for World Heritage".

 

For the video of the activity, please click the link below:
http://heritap.whitr-ap.org/index.php?classid=12497&id=37&t=show

 

 

 

The 6 monthly online thematic Dialogues series are organized by WHITRAP Shanghai and hosted by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Tongji University and their outcomes and the Digital Revolution theme will be presented and further discussed and presented on 15-16 November in an international conference on "World Heritage and Urban-Rural Sustainable Development: Resilience and Innovation" also organized by WHITRAP and CAUP Tongji University.

The 3rd Dialogue was devised and chaired by Marie-Noël TOURNOUX, Project Director WHITRAP Shanghai and co-organized and moderated by Prof. YANG Chen, CAUP, Tongji University.

Five experts from the Asia and Pacific Region where invited to share their views on the topic of World Heritage and the Digital Revolution.
• Prof. CHEN Fulong Deputy director HIST UNESCO Category 2 Centre, Beijing, China
• Febriyanti SURAYANINGISH, Director of the Pusat Dokumentasi Arsitektur, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Associate Prof. HAN Jie, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen China
• Mayura GADKARI, Urban Development Practitioner, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, India
• Tina PATERNO, President ICOMOS Philippines, Philippines

 

02 Opening

After welcoming the participants and audience, the Chair, recalled the objective of the Dialogues, imagining the Next 50: World Heritage as a source of resilience, humanity and innovation and reiterated the 3rd Dialogue aimed to invite the participants and audience to consider digital tools and the digital revolution in relation to the Convention’s statutory tools developed to help the World community to reach the objectives of the Convention. More specifically, it would consider the Strategic Objectives for World Heritage, also known as the 5Cs (Credibility, Conservation, Capacity Building, Communication, Communities) adopted in 2002, twenty years ago, and 2007 by the World Heritage Committee.

Marie-Noël TOURNOUX

Project Director at WHITRAP Shanghai

Prof. YANG Chen, introduced the 3rd Dialogue’s theme "World Heritage and the Digital Revolution. New technologies supporting the '5Cs' Strategic Objectives for World Heritage". He presented the current developments and challenges in the digital conservation of World Heritage how the digital revolution is changing the way we view World Heritage, our understanding of World Heritage, the way the global World Heritage community works together. He then introduced their transformational impacts:
•enhancing the quality of recording and producing documentation;
•monitoring and managing World Heritage on a larger and more complex scale;
•converting the interpretation from object-orientated to visitor-orientated;
•digitalizing has changed the mechanisms of World Heritage knowledge production.

Finally, he emphasized that digital technology is only a technology, a tool, and that the key point is how to properly and effectively use technology to serve the goal of heritage protection.

YANG Chen

Professor at College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Tongji University

In his presentation, “Land cover change and the sustainable conservation of world cultural heritage”, Prof. CHEN Fulong discussed how digital technology such as Earth Observation and emerging technologies support the “5Cs” Strategic Objectives for World Heritage.

Prof. CHEN Fulong

Deputy director HIST UNESCO Category 2 Centre, Beijing, China