The Heritage Management Organisation’s people, programs and partners have all been in the news. You can find some of the articles below. 

 

Heritage Director, Evangelos Kyriakidis, told Euronews’ Jonny Walfisz that Britain must seize the opportunity for cultural diplomacy and give up its fears regarding the restitution of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece and the British Museum needs to see past the legal arguments it has been presenting on the issue…

Read more on Euronews.com 

 

Staying on the same topic, Dr. Kyriakidis told Euronews a few weeks later that European museums must do more than just return artefacts…. 

Read more on Euronews.com

 

Irene Onyancha of the United Nations, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) speaking on behalf of Nita Deerpalsing during the “Community Engagement Workshop with Community Leaders on the Promotion and Protection of Heritage Resources” which was held in Nairobi, Kenya, told participants that ECA is partnering with stakeholders including the Africa Union Commission and HERITAGE, to implement its heritage management programme which aims to empower local communities and experts…

Read more on ModernGhana.com 

 

Press in The Gambia and beyond reported on Heritage’s “Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage” and “Heritage Interpretation for Site Managers” workshops. Cultural heritage managers in Banjul, Barra, Janjanbureh and beyond took part in the workshops which address the needs of the country’s heritage organizations and local groups as they themselves set them out in a survey conducted by the Heritage Management Organisation. The workshops are part of the HerMaP Gambia project, co-funded by the EU ….

Read more on AllAfrica.com,  ThePoint.gm and ModernGhana.com

 

Naftemporiki, one of Greece’s oldest and best-known financial papers/websites, features Hertigage’s work in Africa, highlighting that this is the first time that the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has collaborated with an organization to develop a cultural heritage program in the continent…

Read more on Naftemporiki.gr

 

Greek media reported on the upcoming conference on “Emerging Trends and Technologies (EMTech) in Cultural Organizations: Management Innovation and Network Collaboration” that HERITAGE is organizing at the American Farm School in Thessaloniki to mark the conclusion of the international TEACH FOR FUTURE project. The project was co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme and took place in Bulgaria, Greece and Romania… 

Read more on MyPortal.gr 

INVITATION 

 

Upon completion of  TEACH FOR FUTURE  international program,  the Heritage Management Organization (HERITΛGE) in cooperation with the Romanian National Association of Librarians and Public Libraries (ANBPR) and Global Libraries – Bulgarian Foundation invites you to attend the conference on 

Emerging Trends and Technologies (EMTech) in Cultural Organizations: Management Innovation and Network Collaboration 

on Thursday 14th July, 9AM at the American Farm School of Thessaloniki.

Conference speakers include Dr. Jeffrey Lansdale, President of the American Farm School, Dr. Evangelos Kyriakidis, HERITAGE Founder and Director, and Dr. Emmanuel Garoufallou, Head of the Department of Library Science, Archives and Information Systems, School of Social Sciences, International Hellenic University and coordinator of the TEACH FOR FUTURE program. 

The keynote presentation Copyright and online learning in a time of transition: games, creativity and learning will be given by Dr. Jane Secker of the University of London and Chris Morrison of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. 

TEACH FOR FUTURE was co-funded by the European Commission’s Erasmus + initiative to train more than 300 people in three countries, Bulgaria, Greece and Romania. The aim of the program is for graduates to transfer specialized knowledge in the fields of Information Technology, Innovation Management and Network Collaboration, as well as Entrepreneurship and Leadership to diverse communities of adult learners from the three participating countries and the wider region and act as multipliers for the acquisition of skills.

The conference is realized with the support of the American Farm School and the International Hellenic University. 

Find the conference schedule here.

To participate, please fill up the registration form.

 

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ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ

 

Με αφορμή την ολοκλήρωση των δράσεων του διεθνούς προγράμματος  TEACH FOR FUTURE και την παρουσίαση των αποτελεσμάτων του προγράμματος,  η Πρωτοβουλία για την Ανάδειξη της Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς HERITΛGE σε συνεργασία με την Ένωση Δημόσιων Βιβλιοθηκονόμων και Βιβλιοθηκών της Ρουμανίας (ANBPR) και το Ίδρυμα Global Libraries Bulgaria στη Βουλγαρία σας προσκαλούν στην ημερίδα

Emerging Trends and Technologies in Cultural Organizations: Management Innovation and Network Collaboration

την Πέμπτη 14 Ιουλίου, 09:00 στην Αμερικανική Γεωργική Σχολή Θεσσαλονίκης, Μαρίνου Αντύπα 54, Θέρμη, Θεσσαλονίκης.

Την ημερίδα θα χαιρετίσουν ο Dr. Jeffrey Lansdale, Πρόεδρος της Αμερικανικής Γεωργικής Σχολής, ο Δρ. Ευάγγελος Κυριακίδης, Ιδρυτής και Διευθυντής του HERITΛGE και ο Δρ. Εμμανουήλ Γαρουφάλλου, Πρόεδρος του Τμήματος Βιβλιοθηκονομίας, Αρχειονομίας και Συστημάτων Πληροφόρησης του Διεθνούς Πανεπιστημίου της Ελλάδος και συντονιστής του προγράμματος TEACH FOR FUTURE.

Η κεντρική παρουσίαση της ημερίδας έχει θέμα Copyright and online learning in a time of transition: games, creativity and learning και θα γίνει από τους Dr. Jane Secker του Πανεπιστημίου του Λονδίνου και Chris Morrison των Bodleian Libraries του Πανεπιστημίου της Οχφόρδης.

Το TEACH FOR FUTURE συγχρηματοδοτήθηκε από την πρωτοβουλία Erasmus + της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής για να εκπαιδεύσει πάνω από 300 άτομα σε τρεις χώρες,  Βουλγαρία, Ελλάδα και Ρουμανία.  Στόχος του προγράμματος είναι οι απόφοιτοι να μεταφέρουν εξειδικευμένη γνώση στους τομείς της Πληροφορικής, της Διαχείρισης Καινοτομίας και Συνεργασίας Δικτύων, όπως και της Επιχειρηματικότητας και Ηγεσίας σε ετερογενείς κοινότητες ενήλικων εκπαιδευόμενων από τις τρεις χώρες που συμμετέχουν και την ευρύτερη περιοχή, ώστε να λειτουργήσουν ως πολλαπλασιαστές για την απόκτηση δεξιοτήτων στις κατά τόπους κοινωνίες.

Η εκδήλωση πραγματοποιείται με την υποστήριξη του Διεθνούς Πανεπιστημίου της Ελλάδος και της Αμερικανικής Γεωργικής Σχολής Θεσσαλονίκης.

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες για το πρόγραμμα της εκδήλωσης θα βρείτε εδώ.

Για να παρακολουθήσετε την εκδήλωση, συμπληρώστε την φόρμα εγγραφής.

  

Gonies is located on the northern flanks of the mountain Psiloritis on the island of Crete, an hour’s drive from the capital Heraklion. Until the 1960s, the village was a thriving place, where people mostly lived on agricultural activities. The social life took place in several shops, taverns, and coffee shops located in the village. However, socio-economic changes and reduced incomes from traditional agricultural activities motivated many young residents to move to the cities or even abroad, resulting in a rising average age of the people who stayed and still stay in the beautiful village. The village and its immediate surroundings are rich in cultural heritage and many stories are told from generation to generation about all aspects of life and landscape. With fewer and fewer people living in Gonies, these stories are threatened to be forgotten and lost. That’s why HERITAGE organizes intensive campaigns, summer courses and workshops to capture these stories through interviews and creating a digital archive. While the content of this archive is initially considered non-spatial, they form the perfect starting point for creating a virtual ‘storytelling’ environment, where folklore is literally tied to spatial locations.

 

To kickstart this process, HOGENT students and faculty used digital tools to model Gonies heritage (laser scanning, image 3D modeling and GIS). These techniques are being used to create a digital 3D model of the entire village. Furthermore, several buildings have been measured down to the smallest detail, resulting in a large series of architectural orthopics and digital elevation models of multiple facades.

The third and final TEACH FOR FUTURE project Mentoring Campus took place from 6 to 10 June at the American Farm School’s “Dimitris and Aliki Perrotis” Library in Thessaloniki, Greece.

During the session which was coordinated by HERITΛGE, the librarians of the American Farm School presented the history of the Foundation and ways of utilizing its Historical Archive for the educational process, as well as their educational activities and initiatives. The head of the library, Damiana Koutsomiha, talked about the role of librarians in the new digital age and coordinated a workshop entitled “Time Management for Librarians”.

40 beneficiaries from Greece, Bulgaria, and Romania, were selected from more than 300 people who participated in the individual local educational activities of the program. They had the opportunity to practice and broaden their skills in innovation management and networking, to further enhance their ability to develop new innovative products/services, and to use the right collaboration tools, in line with technological developments and requirements of the labor market.

The campus was organized by HERITΛGE, in collaboration with the Romanian National Association of Librarians and Public Libraries (ANBPR) and Global Libraries – Bulgarian Foundation, with the support of the American School of Agriculture and the International Hellenic University and under the guidance of Dr. Emmanuel Garoufallos , President of the Department of Library, Archives and Information Systems of the International University of Greece.

*TEACH FOR FUTURE program is co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+.

 

 

Our recent publication Making Heritage Together: Archaeological Ethnography and Community Engagement with a Rural Community, by Routledge, is co-authored by Aris Anagnostopoulos, Lena Stefanou and Evangelos Kyriakidis. It has been long in the making, and the distillation of many years of community engagement and collaborative knowledge creation with a rural mountain community in central Crete, Greece. The project this book stems from is archaeological research initiated in 2011 by Evangelos, aiming to investigate and publish the material from three Minoan peak sanctuaries in the wider area. From quite early on, the project involved ethnographic research to inform and enrich the archaeological record, but soon enough the community took over and pushed the ethnography towards more recent tangible and intangible heritage.

This book aims to record and discuss the methods and activities of ethnographic research that spans nearly a decade. We show the rationale behind setting up collaborative actions in the field and present the strengths and the shortcomings of our research and activity. It shares methods from artistic research, ethnographic action research, and experimental archaeology and tries to spell out in detail the steps taken and the local, regional, and national context in which these were set out. Essentially it aims to show how ethnographic research should be an initial and central part of every heritage project as a method that both creates spaces for the production of knowledge on an equal par, as well as enables heritage workers to understand better the local context, as well as the needs, capacities and hopes of the people they work with.

Making Heritage Together is the second book in a series of planned publications, in dialogue and critical engagement with the first one in the series A Community Empowerment approach to Heritage Management, that Evangelos wrote in 2019, and anticipating the third, mainly archaeological book that is forthcoming. It shows how even a small project like this profits from multiple takes, approaches, and methodologies, to produce good practices and aephoric developments that are in sync with local communities.

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The online 3-day workshop on “Organizing Temporary Exhibitions from your Collections and Touring Strategies” took place from 18 to 26 May 2022, and was organized exclusively for Iranian cultural heritage managers.

18 heritage managers from Iran have been trained on how temporary exhibitions can enhance and promote the mission of a cultural organization, create new audiences, build partnerships and potentially generate revenue.

The format of the workshop was discursive and participatory. All participants were invited and encouraged to bring their own ideas and projects for discussion and development, allowing them to engage further with a more emotional understanding of the training they received. During the days of the workshop participants were trained on building an organizational strategy for exhibition making, as well as partnership building, and explored the process behind making temporary exhibitions for display at home and for tour. This included identifying exhibition objectives, shaping the narrative and content to create a compelling visitor experience, as well as strategies for touring exhibitions nationally and internationally.

The workshop has been conducted by Dana Andrew.

Dana Andrew, is an independent museum consultant and trainer specializing in temporary and touring exhibitions and international projects. Based in Dublin, Ireland, she is Professional Development Manager, trainer and mentor for TEG (Touring Exhibitions Group) and part-time Executive Director of ICOM UK (International Council of Museums UK). Supporting museums, galleries and cultural organizations to develop successful projects and programs with impact, and having the vision, structure and processes in place to do this, is the main focus of Dana’s consultancy and training work.

The workshop’s guest lecturers were Dr Moya Carey and Maria Blyzinsky.

Dr Moya Carey, is Curator of Islamic Collections at the Chester Beatty in Dublin. In 2022, she curated the exhibition “Meeting in Isfahan: Vision and Exchange in Safavid Iran”. Previously (2009-2018) she worked as the Iran Heritage Foundation Curator for the Iranian Collections, at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. In 2017, she published “Persian Art: Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A”, a book about British collecting activities in late nineteenth-century ajar Iran. In 2019, this was awarded the International
Book of the Year prize in Iran. Dr Carey is interested in visual culture in all media, most particularly carpets, metalwork and the arts of the book, as well as the cultural contexts surrounding later appropriations, reuse and object biography.

Maria Blyzinsky, is a heritage consultant and independent curator specializing in exhibitions and interpretation. Her career began as a curator for the Royal Observatory Greenwich, where she now holds the post of Curator Emeritus. Later, as Head of Exhibitions for Royal Museums Greenwich, she managed a team of interpretation specialists, project managers and designers responsible for delivering a busy program of special exhibitions, gallery upgrades and touring shows. In 2007, Maria co-founded The Exhibitions Team, an association of independent museum professionals with a passion for exhibitions, collections and interpretation. She is a published author and is currently writing a book about generating ideas for exhibitions, due to be published in 2023.