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Réf.

41863

Type

conference item

Titre

Memory, values and teaching in Havana

Langues

English

Auteurs

Rojas, Ángela

Lieu de publication

Paris

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2005

Pages

3 p.

Addenda

Handwritten page numbers 307-309 on the printed collected papers.

Titre de conférence

14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’

Lieu de conférence

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Date de conférence

27 – 31 oct 2003

Mots-clés

architecture / intangible values / students / memory / historic towns / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Cuba

Monuments et sites

Havana, Cuba

N° Patrimoine mondial

204

Résumé en anglais

Different people have different values. Poverty, conflicts and social differences are evidenced by disruptions, ugliness and other urban landscapes but, at the same time, they are the answers to functions and symbols developed by people to deal with adversity. Vernacular houses, urban spaces and building typologies are, in those cases, produced by feelings and religious beliefs more than by any other kind of idea. The townscape acquires importance once again, since values are not only produced by historicity or beauty, but by particular ways of life and the way in which people use and understand the environment. To show diversity in heritage could be a way to understand diversity in people. Colón neighbourhood is an ugly and dilapidated area of Havana but, at the same time, it is full of traditions and place-attachment. This presentation shows how architecture students analysed and detected values focusing on how people use a place and how traditions have created their own urban and architectural structures, landscape and, why not, monuments. Students' points of view are an alternative approach to conservation and planning. At the same time, instilling values in students as citizens could be an approach not only to conservation, but to deal with current and future conflicts.

Document joint

C2-3_-_Rojas_+_photos.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

Document source

26567 - English #26567

N° d'entrée et cote

14852