(Past) WORLD URBAN FORUM 26–30 June 2022, Katowice, Poland

The Heritopolis members will be the leader of the Training Sessions in the World Urban Forum (WUF) 11th 2022!!
The session will propose an interesting program of "MemorandumGame", which is about memory in space as a metropolitan heritage education tool for metro inter-scalar linkage patterns of inclusion.
The details of all events will be found on the website: https://wuf.unhabitat.org/main-events

text for Heritopolis WUF11 flyer

Networking event

Metropolitan heritage (Heritopolis): mobilising cultural and natural heritage at the metropolitan scale


16.30 – 18.00 CEST, Tuesday, 28th June: Venue to be confirmed

The 21st century metropolis has become the space for increasingly fluid and diverse cultural expressions which challenge more static concepts of local/global/hybrid, urban/rural, culture/nature and traditional/contemporary. A more sustainable approach will balance the diverse interests, cultures and supporting new dynamic identities. Many cities are adopting cultural policies, realizing the central role that diverse cultural heritage – monuments, historic landscapes, vernacular architecture, along with heritage objects and intangible heritage – can play in contributing to vibrant urban identities, quality of life and job creation in this globalized era.

This event will highlight the importance of the metropolitan scale through a blend of presenters from our partner organisations (UN-Habitat MetroHUB, Metropolis, ICOMOS, ICCROM, MTPA, WCCF and universities). They will provide insights from their experience and results from the recent Heritopolis survey of participating metropolises undertaken mainly by early- stage researchers. Highlights will include:

1. The metropolis as heritage and new questions attached to the change of scale.
2. The strategic importance of such an integrated approach as outlined above, including the explicit inclusion of cultural and natural heritage as priorities within the SDGs and NUA.
3. Results from the survey of metropolitan areas in the worldwide Heritopolis network, using examples to highlight the diversity of
(a) organisations active in this arena
(b) the extent to which the SDGs and NUA are being actively engaged with and monitoring of progress is being measured, and
(c) of how coherent policies can and do make a positive difference.
4. Preliminary lessons and suggestions of good practice.
5. How researchers and local governments can join the Heritopolis initiative and MetroHUB.