Locatie
• Online
Datum/Tijd
• 16 juni 2021 van 19:30 - 21:00
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We kindly invite you to the upcoming lecture evening on Wednesday 16 June on the Sustainable Development Goals and Heritage.
In 2015 the United Nations presented the so called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 related goals and their 169 underlying targets are meant to address all current societal issues and aim at a better world to be reached by 2030. Also heritage is addressed, be it in the margins of SDG no. 11.4.
The global heritage community was rather displeased by the way heritage was positioned in the SDGs. Notwithstanding long-lasting and successful efforts of a global heritage community to position heritage as an asset for sustainable development, SDG 11.4 only describes heritage as a pitiful victim of a ruthless society, badly in need of protection and funding. As means of counter attack and amendment to the SDGs UNESCO published its Global Report on Culture for Sustainable Urban Development in 2016. The report shows the many entry points culture and heritage have to almost each of the SDGs, providing undeniable support for a sustainable global society, economy and ecology.
The recently published report Heritage for Global Challenges elaborates on the issue by making connections between a wide range of cultural heritage research projects that seek to address multiple SDG targets. Francesca Giliberto will present the report during this lecture evening. Ilaria Rosetti will subsequently present the findings of ICOMOS’s Working Group on the SDGs, as released last March in their policy guidance for Heritage and Development Actors. This lecture evening will be opened by Alexander Jachnow, who will explain the What, the Why and the How of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.