You are cordially invited to the second public meeting of NIT UHL 2024 Historic Ports Future Cities course, Port City Heritage and Public Engagement Projects in Alexandria, Egypt and Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania.

This week we have two public lectures from two different parts of the world that aim to bring cultural heritage and the public together. The first lecture will be Coastal Clear: A project created to increase the awareness about climatic threats facing the coast of Alexandria by Panseh Ibrahim and Mirette Abdelnour (Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum). The second lecture will be How to make the most of the Danube heritage? Accessibility strategies, presented by Alexandra Mocioiu, Alexandru Roșu and Cezara Matei (Front la Dunăre NGO).

Date: 15 November 2024, Friday
Time: 16.30 - 18.30 (Istanbul time)

The event will be online. Please register for the lecture in advance through the link below. 

Meeting link: Go here

Coastal Blue is a project created by archaeologists of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum of Alexandria. It is an educational and action planning program that aims to increase awareness of the threats related to climate change currently impacting cultural heritage such as sea level rise, coastal erosion, high temperature and floods on the coastal and port cities, especially the Egyptian city of Alexandria.  Some of the activities foreseen in the project are lectures about climate change and its influences on coastal cities, field visits, workshops and research to track the changes, suggesting risk assessment for the impacted sites.

The NGO association Front la Dunăre has carried out a project in Drobeta Turnu Severin aimed at bringing the Danube river embankments back into the daily life of local communities and encouraging sustainable strategies for the Danube heritage. This project represents a striking attempt to rediscover a historical public space through cultural activities and design some strategies which may better raise its urban and social potential. Recently, they have extended the scope of their actions, including new research and documentation of Ada Kaleh, an island that is now sunken but holds significant historical relevance for the Turkish community in Romania.

NIT Urban Heritage Lab is an initiative of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey that investigates the role of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in achieving inclusive, circular, and sustainable cities. The fourth edition of the Urban Heritage Lab Autumn course is organized by the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT), in collaboration with Middle East Technical University (METU), and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with the support of the Netherlands Consulate-General in Istanbul, the Historical Port City of Izmir Site Management Office, and TARKEM. The Historic Ports, Future Cities: Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Urban Development Course will focus on the cultural heritage of port cities.