ICOMOS: Urban Cultural Landscapes & World Heritage, Madrid, 3-7 okt.’22

Caixa Forum Madrid, photo Amador Toril

Landscapes in the City: Places of Memory, Opportunities for the Future

The International Meeting on Urban Cultural Landscapes is organized with the aim of stimulating the debate on the concept of green historic heritage as an essential part of the urban landscape. The Meeting also aims to stimulate debate on such complex issues as landscapes and the city, heritage and sustainability, urban development and conservation of the historical green heritage, heritage and SDGs.

Madrid wants to join in the celebration of the 50th anniversary
of the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of World
Cultural and Natural Heritage and 30 years since the Cultural Landscape category appeared in the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of World Heritage. The meeting would be part of UNESCO’s programme entitled The Next 50: World Heritage as a Source of Resilience, Humanity and Innovation on the future of heritage.

Topics

The Meeting is based on three main topics:

1. Cultural landscapes in the urban context and World Heritage
2. Management and best practices
3. The future

Structure

The Meeting will take place over three days, with lectures by guest speakers and round tables or discussion panels. Guided tours will be organised in small groups at the end of each session around the cultural landscape, or specifically to the Paseo del Prado, the Buen Retiro gardens or the Royal Botanical Gardens, and also in collaboration and coordination with institutions within the property.

The three days of conferences will be followed by one day dedicated to the presentation of conclusions by the rapporteurs and to a public discussion on a final document.

Finally, one day will be set aside for the meeting of the ICOMOS-IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes.