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F1625 Training in UNESCO World Heritage Studies (Cultural Heritage Sp. track)

Gianighian Giorgio

Course description
The course is divided into 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 fabric - 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 for several countries, along with the Nomination processes. At the end of Module 2 each student will present a Nomination selected in their home country.

The final task will concern Italian sites in the 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, identifying their strong and weak 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 own times, and in several different world contexts. The second result to be obtained will be an understanding of the criteria inspiring the selection of the most important sites of outstanding universal value and the procedure for protecting them.