International Interpretation and Presentation Forum
The annual international academic forum hosted by WHIPIC aims to share the centre's achievements related to research, capacity building and education, and information management. Additionally, it seeks to provide a platform for academic discussions and networking in heritage-related fields.
Objective
The Forum aims to share WHIPIC’s activities through diverse themes and invite people from relevant fields to share their knowledge and experience to generate progressive ideas about current issues and future directions for heritage interpretation.
Speakers and presenters
Please refer to each year’s publication for the forum below
Achievements
Year | Themes | Details | Publication |
---|---|---|---|
2022 | World Heritage Interpretation and Presentation Forum: Heritage Interpretation for Sustainable Development, | Details ≫ | |
2023 | World Heritage Interpretation and Presentation International Forum: Inviting Wider Participants to World Heritage Protection | Details ≫ | |
2024 | Heritage Interpretation and Presentation Forum 2024: New Principles and attributes in meaning-making process for challenging future |
2022 World Heritage Interpretation Presentation Forum
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
Overview
Category | Contents |
---|---|
Date and Location | 2022.11.15. ~ 11.16. / Educational Hall, Seosomun Shrine History Museum(Seoul) |
Topic |
|
Poster
Speakers
Name | Affiliation | Remarks |
---|---|---|
Valerie Magar | Unit Manager, Programmes, ICCROM | Integrating Cultural and Natural Heritage |
Ana Lucia Araujo | Professor of History, Howard University | Interpretating History and Heritage of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery |
Manuel Gandara Vazquez | Professor, National School of Conservation Restoration and Museography | Cultural Heritage Interpretation: A Perspective from Latin America |
Aylin Orbasli | Professor of Architectural and Urban Heritage, Oxford Brookes University | Involvement of Local Community in Heritage Interpretation |
Rohit Jigyasu | Project Manager of Urban Heritage, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, ICCROM | Heritage Interpretation and Climate Change |
Ang Ming Chee | General Manager, George Town World Heritage Incorporated | Heritage Interpretation and Community Well-Being in George Town Heritage City, Malaysia |
Peter Stone | Professor of ICCHS, New Castle University UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection & Peace | Heritage Interpretation in Armed Conflict |
Neil Silberman | Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst | Moderator |
Mario Santana Quintero | Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Secretary General of ICOMOS | Discussion Session |
Gamini Wijesuriya | Senior Advisor, ICCROM | Expert Discussion |
Youngjae Kim | Professor of Dept. of Heritage Conservation and Restoration, Korea National University of Cultural Heritage | Re-defining the Concepts and Terminologies of Interpretation and Presentation of World Heritages |
Trinidad Rico | Visiting Professor and Director of Heritage Conservation, University of Southern California | World Heritage Presentation: Sharing Values through Communication between Heritage and People |
Jaeheon Choi | Professor of World Heritage Studies, Konkuk University | Moderator |
Leticia Leitao | Cultural and natural heritage consultant | Discussion Session |
2023 World Heritage Interpretation Presentation Forum
Inviting Wider Participants to World Heritage Protection
Overview
Category | Contents |
---|---|
Date and Location | 2023.11.14. ~ 11.16. /Seoul Tourism Plaza 4F |
Topic |
|
Poster
Speakers
Name | Affiliation | Remarks |
---|---|---|
Joseph King | Senior Director, ICCROM | Significance of Communities(or stakeholders) as a new priority in implementing the World Heritage Convention |
Neel Kamal Chapagain | Professor, Ahmedabad University, Centre for Heritage Management (India) | Communities in World Heritage Interpretation and Management: From recognition to active participation |
Pil Won Han | Vice President, ICOMOS Korea | Moderator |
Munyaradzi Mashamaire | Exhibitions Officer at National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe, NMMZ | The Reality of National Level capacity-building and Upcoming Tasks: capacity-building Case Study on African World Heritage Site |
Erica Meneghin | Director of the Heritage Area, Fondazione Santagata for the Economics of Culture | Heritage Interpretation and Capacity-Building of the Regional Community : Bottom-up approaches and forming Stakeholder Networks |
Joon Kim | Research Professor, Institute of Honam Studies | Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats and Communities: A Space of Coexistence and Consideration |
Olwen Beazley | Manager Historic & World Heritage, New South Wales, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Australia | The Willandra Fossil Trackway : 20000 years of Connecting the Past with the Future - A People-centred Rights-based Approach to Inclusive Interpretation – |
Verna Pappin | Mutthi Nutthi Member of the Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage, First Peoples’ Consultative Group | |
Hyun Kyung Lee | Assistant Professor, Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University | Can We Welcome Conflicts In and Over Heritage Sites? - Living with Conflict : Communication by, for and of the Stakeholders and their Capacity-Building- |
Team Heritage in Motion | Winning Team of the Heritage Interpretation Planning Workshop (National University of Singapore) | Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto(OCMHS): INDUSTRIAL Locality in Diversity |