The IV Congress on International and Interdisciplinary Cultural Heritage ended with international recommendations for the nomination of Lota to UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
Yesterday, the fourth day of the IV Congress on International and Interdisciplinary Cultural Heritage began its activities among canvases and documents with the intervention of the Company Teatro La Obra and the excerpt of “Prometeo Nacional”, a play inspired by the immolation of Sebastián Acevedo Becerra in front of the cathedral of Concepción on November 11, 1983.
This was followed by the conference “Archives, memories and rescue of intangible heritage” led by Marina Mantilla Trolle, Eduardo Saucedo and Claudia Benitez from Mexico and Irene Díaz Martínez from Spain.
For the afternoon block, an open table was held on “Critical tourism and its interfaces and socio-cultural dimensions” where numerous researchers from Chile, Brazil and Spain joined to share their visions, presenting innovative projects and enriching the dialogue on the rescue and enhancement of heritage from different perspectives.
In addition, University of Chile academics Lorenzo Berg and Claudia Torres gave a lecture on “Architectural Heritage in the Service of the Public”. And to end the last day of discussions and presentations of the congress, the closing panel “International recommendations for the nomination of Lota to the UNESCO World Heritage” was held, which was chaired by foreign panelists: Catherine Bertram (France), Stefan Berger (Germany), Moulshri Joshi (India), Kai Weise (Nepal) and Solá Akíntúndé (Nigeria).
In this regard, María Esperanza Rock Núñez, director of the Strategies for the Transformation of Industrial Heritage into Regional Assets program said: “One of the important technical recommendations given by the experts is the value that the mobilization of the community has in our context. In this sense, we have had important demonstrations where the community has raised its voice indicating that “heritage is a right”. Therefore, it is essential to highlight this in the nomination since it is a relevant part for the future management plan of the sites. On the other hand, the virtuous triangulation between the academy, the public service and the community is already a fact, now it is necessary to include the private sphere in the collective impulse”. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
