Summer School on "Urban Heritage Mining" in Kathmandu
NHDP is supporting and is actively involved in International Summer School on "Urban Heritage Mining" that takes place in Kathmandu Valley from 22-29 September 2022. The summer school is conceptualized by Prof. Christiane Brosius and Prof. Stefanie Lotter (SOAS) as part of the research project "Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia" at Heidelberg University, South Asian University (Delhi), Social Science Baha (Kathmandu) and SOAS University of London (funded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). Besides NHDP, the DAAD-funded partnership "Urban Transformation and Placemaking: Learning from South Asia and Germany" is partnering.
The goal of the summer school is to offer on-site training in the critical practice of ‘urban heritage mining’, a dynamic, multidisciplinary approach to collecting, interpreting, and working with intangible and built heritage. The summer school will be attended by graduate students, PhD students in social sciences and other fields of study, as well as by heritage professionals and activists. An international and local teaching team will work closely with participants to identify and train individual academic or professional skills and to expand their knowledge learning directly from practitioners (e.g. architects, urban designers, heritage conservation experts). Participants come from London, Heidelberg, Delhi and Kathmandu. The summer school is co-funded by the Flagship Initiative Transforming Cultural Heritage as well as the DAAD. Members of the NHDP support the event in the context of a crowd-sourced digital heritage walk in Kirtipur.