Buenas Prácticas en Patrimonio Mundial

Good Monday bloggers! For the introduction of the Young Researcher in World Heritage of the week, this time we have gone to South Corea, where Hee Joo Kim is doing her fieldwork right now. She is an international researcher graduated in the US (MSc Historic Preservation ) and currently doing the Ph.D. in the UK at the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage (UK). Amongst others, she has collaborated with the following departments and institutions: The Getty Conservation Institute , US World Monument Fund, US Tribeca Trust, New York, US Hee Joo´s  Projects & Interests Origin of motivation Like many Asian countries, South Korea has experienced unprecedented rapid economic development and urbani s ation processes that have led to the destruction of many urban heritage sites in the past fifty years. Above: Seoul (c.1960) Below: Seoul (c. 1980) The pictures show the  urbani s ati...

Bloggers!! Welcome back! So good to see you again...and for those of you who have just arrived, thank you for the opportunity! We are delighted to introduce you to Samereh Pourmoradian, a PhD researcher in the Department of Communication Studies of the University of Salzburg (Austria) who is working on Tourism and World Heritage in the context of her home country, Iran.  Besides being multilingual (She speaks English, Turkish and Persian), she is member of the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO. Samereh collaborates as well with the Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization of East-Azerbaijan-Tabriz, the Municipality of Tabriz and the local University of Tabriz. As you probably imagine from this complete profile of collaborations, Samereh's PhD case is the Tabriz Historic Bazar Complex (Iran) and its tangible and intangible heritage, although she researches into the wider Iran's Cultural Heritage Tourism.  Tabriz Historic Bazar was designa...

Hi bloggers! Our researcher of the week is Richard Bigambo,  a young researcher from Tanzania doing his Ph.D. in the United Kingdom.  Richard´s background is in Archaeology and he speaks Swahili and English .  Thank you, Richard, for sharing your profile... we keep on looking for new researchers and professionals in World heritage! Department/Institution:  Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham   Archaeology and Heritage Department, University of Dar Es Salaam Online profiles: LinkedIn Research Gate Richard´s  Projects & Interests Intangible Cultural Heritage is currently treated by different challenges including globalization and modernization. This, in turn, has led to the creation of different safeguarding practices by governments and non-governmental organization. However, the proposed safeguarding practices have been contested due to their overall impacts o...