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F1422 Preservation of World Heritage Sites (Cultural Heritage Sp. Track)

Gianighian Giorgio

Course description: Training in UNESCO World Heritage Studies
The course is divided in three modules, in such an order as to allow the students to follow the historical intellectual development that brought the monuments – and much later historic landscape and urban fabrics - to be considered and treated as heritage in the world, starting with the fathers of the discipline in the 19th century and including its twentieth century development, up to the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention. The implementation of this charter will be analysed in several countries, along with the Nomination processes. The final task will concern Italian sites in Veneto that will be visited: 1. Venice and its Lagoon; 2. Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua; 3. City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto; 4. The Dolomites. The students, in their final written report, will be invited to analyze the Nominations, finding out the strong and the week points.


Learning outcomes
As a first result of the course the students will get acquainted with the domain of restoration, from its historical beginning up to our times, as well as in several different contexts in the world. The second result to be obtained will be the understanding of the criteria inspiring the selection of the most important sites of outstanding universal value and the way of protecting them.