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European Heritage Hub Forum
Reimagining the Anthropocene: Cultural Heritage and Climate Action
On occasion of the European Union co-funded event of the European Heritage Hub, UNLESS founder Giulia Foscari was invited to participate in the conference “Reimagining the Anthropocene: Cultural Heritage and Climate Action”.
The Forum’s aim is to make clear the connections between culture, heritage and climate action and to relate these to the policy discussions at EU level and at the 2023 UN Climate Conference (COP28) being held just two months later in Dubai, UAE.Discussions at the Forum will be used to inform the Venice Call to Put Culture at the Heart of Climate Action.
In her speech within the context of the round-table “Why Culture and Heritage Must be at the Heart of Climate Action” Giulia Foscari proposed a new reading of Venice as an “Embassy for all Island States and Coastal Settlements that risk oblivion due to anthropogenic climate change”, and proposed – 60 years after the launch of the Venice Charter which regulated the conservation of the built environment – the establishment of “The Venice Charter for our Global Commons”. Shifting her focus on Antarctica, she addressed the participants and EU representatives proposing two resolutions that would position the EU as role model in promoting a much needed paradigm shift in the governance of our southernmost Global Commons: the establishment of European Antarctic Stations, and the promotion - within the framework of the European Green Deal and the EU Data Act - of an Antarctic Data Space that could become the prototype for future Data Spaces for the Global Commons.
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The Forum’s aim is to make clear the connections between culture, heritage and climate action and to relate these to the policy discussions at EU level and at the 2023 UN Climate Conference (COP28) being held just two months later in Dubai, UAE.Discussions at the Forum will be used to inform the Venice Call to Put Culture at the Heart of Climate Action.
In her speech within the context of the round-table “Why Culture and Heritage Must be at the Heart of Climate Action” Giulia Foscari proposed a new reading of Venice as an “Embassy for all Island States and Coastal Settlements that risk oblivion due to anthropogenic climate change”, and proposed – 60 years after the launch of the Venice Charter which regulated the conservation of the built environment – the establishment of “The Venice Charter for our Global Commons”. Shifting her focus on Antarctica, she addressed the participants and EU representatives proposing two resolutions that would position the EU as role model in promoting a much needed paradigm shift in the governance of our southernmost Global Commons: the establishment of European Antarctic Stations, and the promotion - within the framework of the European Green Deal and the EU Data Act - of an Antarctic Data Space that could become the prototype for future Data Spaces for the Global Commons.
| Project Title: | European Heritage Hub Forum |
| Location: | Venice |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Status: | Completed |
| Programme: | Conversation |
| Speakers: | Claudia Apostol, Marie-Pierre Bresson, Louis-Albert de Broglie, Sir David Chipperfield, Grace Emely, HRH Princess Dana Firas, Giulia Foscari, Cristina Garzillo Leemhuis, Michael G Jacobides, Višnja Kisić, Adam Klups, Johanna Leissener, Tiziana Lippiello, Angelo Maggi, Catherine Magnant, Marshall Marcus, Hermann Parzinger, Jordi Pascual, Laura Piovesan, Anna Pirani, Andrew Potts, H.E. Sheikh Salem bin Khalid Al Qassimi, Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović, Mechtild Rössler, Erminia Sciacchitano, Tunç Soyer, Jermina Stanojev, Teresa Tamen, Alison Tickell, Emma Ursich, Bastien Varoutisikos, Harry Vermayen. |
| Link | European Heritage Hub Forum |
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