Call for proposals for the ICOMOS Advisory Committee 2021 Scientific Symposium

This year, the ICOMOS Advisory Committee will organise its Scientific Symposium online from 10 to 12 November 2021 on the theme: Living Heritage and Climate Change.

Living heritage provides people with their sense of identity and is continuously regenerating in response to their environment. But we live in a time of rapid environmental change accelerated by the current climate crisis. Our responses to this crisis have the potential to strengthen our living heritage or destroy it.

This is the first of the series of annual Scientific Symposia that are part of the Triennial Scientific Plan (TSP) 2021-24 Climate Change Reboot focusing proposed ICOMOS meetings and Scientific Symposia on how climate change impacts on specific heritage places and issues.

In the 2021 Scientific Symposium you are asked to look at how these inter-related considerations play out in the context of living heritage amidst climate change, including how they affect the heritage communities as well as understanding, assessing and managing of places directly or tangibly associated with living traditions, ideas, beliefs, and/or artistic and literary works.

The deadline for proposals is 22nd of May, more information on the Scientific Symposium can be found here.