Developing cultural heritage in a more sustainable way. New approaches and examples from practice.

"Open Heritage" is a response to the urgent need for a more open definition of cultural heritage, of the parties involved in protecting and maintaining it, and of the relevant planning processes in order to ensure the sustainable reuse of cultural heritage in times of climate change, social inequality and social plurality.

This book introduces in a clear and systematic manner the results of the EU-funded OpenHeritage project, which examined best practices in different European countries. It focuses on the idea of inclusive heritage management based on community-driven processes.

It is designed to act as a guide for anyone involved in planning, researching, and deciding on the further development and use of cultural heritage.

• Systematic presentation of the results of the EU-funded project OpenHeritage
• A collection of different approaches to assessing the social impact of bottom-up cultural heritage reuse projects
• Presentation of numerous methods derived from OpenHeritage case studies and other European initiatives

About the Author

Editors

Heike Oevermann is full professor for Heritage Conservation and Built Heritage Use, including reuse and adaptation, at Vienna University of Technology. She studied Architecture and World Heritage, practised as an architect, and completed her doctorate on the transformation of the Zeche Zollverein World Heritage site (TU Berlin) and her habilitation on adaptive heritage reuse of industrial architecture in European cities (Bauhaus Universitat Weimar). She was interim professor at Otto-Friedrich Universitat, Bamberg and is guest professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. She is the author of a number of books and essays on the subject of heritage conservation and conversion.

Levente Polyak is an urban planner, researcher, community advocate, and policy adviser. With his organisation Eutropian, he co-edits Cooperative City Magazine and helps public administrations and citizen initiatives across Europe create new partnerships, cooperation processes, learning trajectories, and knowledge exchange around themes of spatial development, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. He is co-author of numerous books.

Hanna Szemzo is a sociologist, and one of the managing directors of Metropolitan Research Institute, a privately owned think tank in Budapest. She has over 20 years' experience in research and con-sultancy in the fields of urban regeneration, social inclusion, demography, welfare, residential energy efficiency, and governance analysis. Recently, she has been concentrating on issues around adaptive heritage reuse, community engagement, and urban gov-ernance. She was one of the coordinators of the OpenHeritage project.

Harald A. Mieg serves as honorary professor of Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin and president of the Berlin Society for the Study of Science. From 2005 to 2010 he established the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt-Universitat. He is the author of a series of books and articles on the topics of professionalisation, urban planning and higher education.

Contributing authors

Sophie Bod, Dominika P. Brodowicz, Giovanni Caudo, Federica Fava, Andrea Giuliano, Lukacs Hayes, Martin Hulse, Volodymyr Kulikov, Ashley Mason, Dora Merai, Harald A. Mieg, Jorge Mosquera, Heike Oevermann, Giovanni Pagano, Daniela Patti, John Pendlebury, Levente Polyak, Katarzyna Sadowy, Iryna Sklokina, Hanna Szemzo, Andrea Toenko, Hanne van Gils, Loes Veldpaus

Book Information
ISBN 9783035626803
Author Heike Oevermann
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Birkhauser
Publisher Birkhauser
Weight(grams) 532g