IAED Seminar: “Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development”, Alessio RE, 11:30AM December 2 (TR)

You are kindly invited to follow IAED SEMINAR: FALL 2021-2022 organized by the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, FADA, Bilkent University.

Speaker: Alessio RE
Title: “Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development”

Date & Time: December 2, 2021, Thursday, 11.30 am.

ABSTRACT :
The seminar presents, through some case studies from UNESCO designated sites, how investing in cultural heritage, in its conservation and in its management, opens to significant social benefits and economic impacts and key to contribute to the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

BIOGRAPHY:
Alessio Re has his graduate degree from Department of Architecture in Politecnico di Torino. He holds a M.A. in the program of “Cultural Projects for Development” in Universite degli Studi di Torino and a PhD in “Conservation of Heritage and Landscape” at Specialization School of Cultural Heritage. He is serving, from 2018, the Santagata Foundation as Secretary General. He also teaches as adjunct professor at the University of Turin and at the University of Pisa. He is working as a coordinator for: the Master in Cultural Property Protection in Crisis Response, the Master in World Heritage and cultural projects for development, the International Academy on UNESCO and Sustainable Development, the Heritage Beyond Walls program.

He also working as a consultant for UNESCO in Italy; Serbia; Montenegro; Iran; Greece; Cambodia; Pakistan, and for the Ministries of Culture and Tourism of Serbia (2014); Seychelles (2016); Mauritius (2016), Among the publications, the volumes “Evaluating the management of UNESCO sites” (2012) and “UNESCO CLUSTERS” (2016).

***This is an online event. To obtain Zoom link and password, please contact to the department.