“Letting Culture in!
Heritage Sites as Cultural Enabling Spaces”

Forget Heritage Final Public Conference

Z-Bau, Frankenstraße 200, 90461 Nuremberg; 25 September 2019

Letting Culture in!

Heritage sites as cultural enabling spaces

Transnational Experiences, Cooperative Approaches & Multiple Perspectives on the challenges of today’s cultural heritage revitalization

Cultural projects at vacant urban spaces have the potential to be key factors of heritage preservation and an essential part of spatial urban transformation processes towards the development of new life and diversity. However, cultural operators, administrations and initiatives have to consider precarious effects like gentrification, festivalization and creative place making without social conscience. Being beware of these challenges is the first step towards future-oriented cultural heritage revitalization. But how to find the equilibrium of economic, environmental, social, historical and cultural dimensions of revalorization projects with the sustainable city in mind? 

Language: German & English
Free Entrance / Please register until 20th September
With exhibition „Vibrant Voids“

More information: https://kuf-kultur.nuernberg.de/kuf-angebote-projekte/eu-projekt-forget-heritage

Registering and contact: Amt für Kultur und Freizeit, Maria Trunk, maria.trunk@stadt.nuernberg.de

9.00-9.30     Coffee and registration

Z-Bau, Frankenstraße 200, 90461 Nuremberg

09.30-10.00   Public Conference Opening

Mrs. Prof. Dr. Julia Lehner, Head of the Department for Culture, City of Nuremberg

Mrs. Illaria Pittaluga, Lead Project Manager Forget Heritage, Department of City Marketing, City Promotion and Cultural Activities, City of Genoa

Mrs. Maria Trunk, Project Manager Forget Heritage, Department for Culture and Leisure, City of Nuremberg

10.00-11.15   Public Conference: Letting Culture in! Panel 1 – Impulse

Jörg Skriebeleit (Director of the Memorial Site Flossenbuerg, Weiden i.d. Oberpfalz)

Thomas Kaestle, Cultural Scientist, (Hannover, Germany)

11.15-11.30   Coffee break

11.30-12.30   Public Conference: Letting Culture in! Panel 2 - Practice

Mrs. Hannah Kordes, Architect, (Linz, Austria)

Mr. Gunnar Grandel, Urbanist (Vienna, Austria)

12.30-12.35   Conclusion of the first conference part & introduction to the afternoon

12.35–13.30   Lunch buffet

13.30 – 14.45 Public Conference: Round table discussion

“Overcoming the tragedy of urban cultural commons – Cultural enabling space strategies beyond cultural affirmation, historical neglect, gentrification, festivalization and creative place making”

 Moderator: Mrs. Hanna Rentschler, Urbanist

Debate: Mr. Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim-Wagner, Director of the European Cultural Capital 2025 application office, Mrs. Hannah Rentschler & Mr. Gunnar Grandel (Speakers from Panel 1)

14:45-15:00   Public Conference: Conclusion

Mrs. Maria Trunk, Project Manager Forget Heritage