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Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage

Florence Graezer Bideau, Chiara Maria Bortolotto

This paper tackles Avalanche Risks Management (ARM), nominated by Switzerland and Austria and inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018. On the one hand, this nomination conventionally highlights how traditional em ...

2023

Mega-Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: The making of public space between narratives and practices

Florence Graezer Bideau, Huishu Deng

For decades, hosting mega-events in the present place has been considered as a strategy to boost the future urban landscape. More recently, however, the re-use of the city fabric’s past heritage has become central rather than the increasing urbanisation of ...

2023

Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Huế's Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making

Phi Nguyen Yen

This dissertation interrogates postcolonial cities’ syncretic territories, using Huế’s mnemonic sites – historically and culturally significant locales that aid in remembrance – to explore displaced communities’ cohabitation tactics and decolonization effo ...

EPFL2023

Le Locle/La Chaux-de-Fonds: Public histories and industrial heritage in contemporary cities

Florence Graezer Bideau, Filippo De Pieri

Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds were inscribed in the World Heritage List in 2009 under the label “watchmaking town planning”. The contribution aims at developing a few questions linked to this heritage site. To what extent the “outstanding universal values ...

2022

Seismic Retrofit of Existing Structures Based on Digital Surveying, Non-Destructive Testing and Nonlinear Structural Analysis: The Case of Gjirokastra Castle in Albania

Savvas Saloustros

The present paper showcases the work carried out as part of the seismic retrofit of the Ottoman fortress of Gjirokastra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Albania. The need for strengthening and retrofitting the structure stems from the fact that it ...

2022

Porter le temps: mémoires urbaines du Locle et de la Chaux-de-Fonds

Florence Graezer Bideau

In our memory-obsessed time, cities have become places for the elaboration of images of the past that serve as a background for understanding, legitimizing, or contesting urban transformations. How are these cultural representations produced? How are they ...

2022

Methodology for energy retrofitting of Modern Architecture. The case study of the Olivetti office building in the UNESCO site of Ivrea

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati

Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU total energy consumption. Accounting for almost 45% of the existing building stock, the architecture of ...

2021

Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022: ecological civilization as a new step for extended urbanization to enhance consumption

Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Marcel Theurillat

Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022: a new step for urbanization and consumption Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Theurillat The 2022 Beijing Winter Games is a multiscale state project involving Central, Provincial, Municipal and Districts Governments. It ai ...

2021

The Social Life of Heritage-Making: Cultural Representations and Frictions

Florence Graezer Bideau

The chapter explores the social and historic construction of heritage and the role played in this by institutions, from an anthropological perspective. Since state members ratified the UNESCO Conventions, national inventories have been collated so that can ...

Amsterdam University Press2020

Social Representations of Mexico City Historic Center: Heritage and Controversial Memories

Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

In this paper, we present the results of a research project that deals with the controversial memories of historic urban landscapes that have been designated as World Heritage sites by UNESCO. We observe - through the study of social representations of Mex ...

JOHANNES KEPLER UNIV, INST PAEDAGOGIK & PSYCHOLOGIE2020

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