Symposium: The Design-Politics of Inhabited “World-Heritage” Sites

Please join us for a symposium presenting case studies from the Spring 2024 seminar, The Design-Politics of Inhabited “World-Heritage” Sites, supported by student travel grants from the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism’s Charles Correa Fund for Housing and Urbanization.  The symposium will highlight case studies that focus specifically on the ways that urban design politics infuse the urbanization of inhabited places that have been recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage sites in the Global South.  Increasingly, the heritage value of urban centers is being recognized by global institutions such as UNESCO and also state actors, heritage experts, and local resident communities. However, the designation of living residential environments as heritage is regularly accompanied by socio-cultural and economic implications that communities are ill-prepared to anticipate and address. By exploring a range of cases, student investigations into this topic have the potential to improve and inform conservation and planning practice in these contexts to enable more just outcomes.  The symposium will open with a keynote co-presented by professors Lawrence Vale and Aarthi Janakiraman, followed by panels where students will present their research.  

Lunch will be provided.  

The course and symposium are supported by the Charles Correa (1955) Fund for Housing and Urbanization  

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Schedule

10:15 - Welcomes and Introductions

10:30 – Keynote
The Urban Design-Politics of Housing ‘World Heritage’
Professors Lawrence Vale (MIT) and Aarthi Janakiraman (Tulane)

11:15 – Panel
Housing World Heritage 

12:45 – Lunch

1:30 – Panel
Urbanization of/and World Heritage

3 PM – End