1'3'3 Cultural Heritage and Identity

1
1.3.3 Cultural Heritage and Identity

• Jan van der Borg
• University of Venice

2
The Data

• Europe-wide statistics for NUTS 3 regarding
  heritage, culture and identity are extremely
  scarce.
• Therefore
• - extensive network of Universities that
  produces a limited number of significant
  indicators
• - number of indepth case studies
• - involvement Council of Europe UNESCO WHC

3
Indicators

• Presence and the importance of material and
  immaterial cultural assets
• Use of the cultural assets. Focus on excessive
  and insufficient use
• Impact of heritage on the local economy and
  society

4
Issues

• Sustainability leads to two broad families of
  (spatial) policies
• 1) Policies that aim at conserving arts, heritage
  and identity
• 2) Policies that aim at valorising culture and
  at enhancing identity

5
Macro Policy Issues

• Conserving European Cultural Heritage should,
  because of its very nature (space product and
  European concern), be an important element of
  territorial policies
• Valorising European Heritage offers regional
  economies new impulses for the economy and the
  society (culture as a priority in assigning
  structural funds).

6
Policy Issues in Detail I

• Culture and competitiveness
• Costs and benefits of the development of cultural
  tourism (carrying capacity versus multipliers)
• Tax policies and facilitating conservation by
  private parties
• Multiculturality, identity and social and
  economic development
• Transeuropean networks for cultural development

7
Policy Issues in Detail II

• Culture as a fundamental precondition for
  territorial development
• Culture and accessibility
• Cultural landscapes, natural landscapes and
  spatial clusters of cultural assets
• Creative industries
• Use of cultural assets in border regions

8
Policy Issues in Detail III

• Marginal areas and culture (on one hand
  marginality as a menace and on the other culture
  as a cure against marginality)
• Cultural heritage and hazards.

9
Progress

• Partner Meetings in Venice (December) and in
  Barcelona (May) and Seminar in Barcelona (May)
• First two interim reports delivered
• - Broad definition of cultural heritage
• - Identification of indicators
• - Construction of meta database