Research Scholarships
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INTACH Journal of Heritage Studies
INTACH Scholarship 2022
Applications for this cycle are closed!
Research proposals were invited for a city-based inquiry engaging all the key stakeholders involved in making, saving, and enhancing the culture of a city and its people.
“The right to participate fully and freely in cultural life is vital to our cities and communities.”
Culture is the expression of values, a common, renewable resource in which we meet one another, learn what can unite us and how to engage with differences in a shared space. Those differences exist within and between cultures. They must be acknowledged and engaged with. An inclusive, democratic, sustainable city enables that process, and is strengthened by it too (The 2020 Rome Charter). There are a number of charters that talk about historic monuments, sites and cities, but very few that focus on inhabitants. Whilst historic buildings are essential for cultural memory, evolution and identity, it is vital to include ‘people’ who built these historic buildings in the first place.
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- What are the effective policies for an evolved public participation in culture, manifested in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other global treaties/ conventions?
- It is people, who form the fundamental blocks of a culture and shape the city through their culture. How does a city respond to the inhabitants utilizing it fabric to develop their potential and contribute, in return?
- Culture provides its inhabitants with opportunities of shared spaces, places of learning and engagement which is led by an experience of differences and diversity within. What are these enablers which help cities to move towards an inclusive, democratic and sustainable way of life?
