ICOMOS Lezing: Antioch’s Post-Earthquake Recovery, bij DutchCulture, Herengracht 474, 10 mei, 19.30 uur

De ICOMOS lezing van deze maand is weer fysiek: op 10 mei 2023 presenteert een delegatie van de Ankara Middle East Technical University, de stand van zaken van de ‘damage assessment and evaluation of Antakya’s multi layered cultural heritage’. Hoe gaat de reconstructie van Antakya’s historische binnenstad na de recente aardbeving van start?

Antioch’s Post-Earthquake Recovery

Guest speakers: Pınar Aykaç, A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Özgün Özçakır, Sibel Yıldırım Esen

Date: 10 May 2023
Time: 19h30-21h30 (drinks and meal from 18h30)
Place: DutchCulture, Herengracht 474 Amsterdam
Language: English

Introduction

We kindly invite you to this month’s ICOMOS lecture evening. This time we will meet again on-site at the premises of our welcoming host DutchCulture in Amsterdam. As we are used to, this evening will be preceded by informal drinks and a simple meal.

Unlike the online lectures, we have a limited capacity for attendance. We can only accommodate 30 people. For that reason we ask you to register in advance for attendance.

Please use the register form through this link. Here you can also register for the preceding meal, from 18.30h.

Unlike the online lectures we have to charge an attendance fee to cover costs. Attendance is EURO 5,- (be it, only for non-members; for ICOMOS-members attendance is free of charge). If you join the preceding drinks and meal, you are charged EURO 15,-. All payments can only be done by bank transfer on the spot.
(please consider that a no-show on a registered meal will burden ICOMOS’s limited resources)

This month’s lecture evening we will welcome the Turkish delegation from Ankara’s Middle East Technical University. They are currently visiting the Netherlands for a comparative analyses on heritage conservation, supported by the Centre for Global Heritage and Development. Our guests will share their experiences in the efforts made in recovering the legendary city of Atioch after the earthquake earlier this year.

We hope you will join us!
Kind regards,
The ICOMOS Netherlands Lecture Committee:
Ankie Petersen, Anna Louwerse, Ardjuna Candotti, Daan Lavies, Jacomine Hendrikse, Jean-Paul Corten, Maurits van Putten, Remco Vermeulen

Programme

18h30 Drinks and meal
19h30 Post-earthquake documentation, damage assessment and evaluation of Antakya’s multi-layered cultural heritage by Pınar Aykaç, A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Özgün Özçakır, Sibel Yıldırım Esen
20h15 Break
20h30 Debate with the audience
21h15 End

Post-earthquake documentation, damage assessment and evaluation of Antakya’s multi-layered cultural heritage in Hatay, Turkey

Guest speakers: Pınar Aykaç, A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz, Özgün Özçakır, Sibel Yıldırım Esen

Antakya, or Antioch, the city founded in 300 BCE to be the capital of Seleucids, is located in the southeast of Turkey. Antakya hosts many monumental and residential structures belonging to different periods. The multi-layered urban tissue, mainly consisting of 19^th century Ottoman architecture alongside buildings influenced by French architecture during the French Mandate period, co-exist with the archaeological remains underneath. The urban tissue in the historic core is the continuation of the city’s life since its foundation. With its long and diverse history. Antakya has significant cultural value both architecturally, artistically, and historically.

The Kahramanmaraş-centered quakes on February 6, 2023, measuring 7.7 and 7.6 Mw as well as another earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 centered in Samandağ-Hatay on February 20, 2023, caused great destruction and damage to the historical city center of Antakya, which stands out for its historical stratification and continuity, and cultural richness. The earthquakes resulted in one of the most significant regional disasters in the area in over a century. Many cultural heritage buildings have been ruined or severely damaged. The evaluate the post-earthquake damage is as relevant as urgent, now that many heritage buildings have become even more fragile.

To respond to the challenges that Antakya’s multi-layered cultural heritage faces following the earthquakes, METU Centre for Research and Assessment of Historical Environment (METU TAÇDAM) and METU Graduate Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage (METU CONS) initiated a multi-disciplinary project for the post-earthquake damage assessment, emergency response, conservation, rehabilitation and resilience of cultural heritage assets in Antakya’s historical city center.

The presentation aims at introducing the project that the team conducts in collaboration with non-governmental organizations and local authorities. The speakers will first present the project’s methodology for the post-earthquake damage assessment in Antakya and then further elaborate on the post-earthquake situation of Antakya’s multi-layered cultural heritage based on their studies in the field. Afterwards, the post-earthquake situation of Antakya’s cultural heritage will be evaluated, and the project team’s preliminary findings on the possible intervention principles and strategies for post-earthquake recovery of Antakya will be shared with the audience.