New Approaches to Urban Heritage Futures - the Case of Tel Aviv - Yafo

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, in coordination with TU Delft and Liebling Haus – The White City Center in Tel Aviv, invites you to the final dissemination event of a three-year research project on urban heritage and spatial planning funded by the HERILAND program, a pan-European research training network and innovation program under the Marie-Curie grant agreement and EU Horizon 2020.

We aim to present ideas, and tools, and propose innovative strategies to create sustainable future landscapes, based on deep history and spatial heritage approaches. The event will have two parts: Presentations of ongoing doctoral research focusing on Tel Aviv- Yafo, followed by a panel discussion of experts engaged in urban conservation, planning, and design projects. 

The event will host talks and discussions addressing the following questions:

• What do sustainable urban heritage futures look like: socially, economically, and ecologically?
• What important lessons can history teach us, to guide future practices and interventions?
• Which new methods and tools can support sustainable urban heritage futures?

Schedule:

16:30-17:00 | Registrations and high tea 

17:00-19:00 | Public session: Presentations and panel discussion

Tentative program:

17:00-17:10 | Greetings and introduction

• Prof. Arch. Els Verbakel (Head of the School of Architecture, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem)
• Arch. Sharon Golan Yaron (Program Director, the White City Center)

17:10-18:00 | Presentations from Doctoral Candidates 

• Komal Potdar (Datascaping historic urban landscapes: A tool for assessment of spatial sustainability)
• Ana Jayone Yarza Perez (Deep Adaptive Reuse: A response to the 21st century urban and climate challenges)
• Adva Matar (The Dan Heritopolis: Exploring the role of heritage in sustainable futures)
• Elad Horn (Toward an economic history of architecture: The case of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)

18:00-18:50 | Panel discussion

New approaches to Urban heritage futures. The case of Tel Aviv Yafo

Moderator: Prof. Dr. GLM Burgers (Moderator, Faculty of Humanities, Art and Culture, History, Antiquity, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Panelists:

• Prof. Arch. Els Verbakel (Head of the School of Architecture, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem)
• Dr. Jeremie Hoffmann (Head of Conservation department, Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality Municipal)
• Dr.ir. Frank van der Hoeven (Director of Research of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment)
• Arch. Shmuel Groag (Conservation architect, Professor, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem)
• Prof. Daniel Monterescu (Professor of urban anthropology and food studies, Central European University) (Online participation)

18:50-19:00 | Closing remarks: Prof. Arch.‎ Michael Turner (UNESCO Chairholder in Urban Design and Conservation Studies, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem

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The event is in English