Heritage Resilience at the San Antonio Missions  UNESCO World Heritage Site Texas USA

Australia ICOMOS, DOCOMOMO AUSTRALIA, NSW Chapter AIA members are all invited to attend as well as non members of these organisations

Australia ICOMOS DOCOMOMO Australia NSW Chapte AIA

<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Heritage resilience is defined by the capacities of a cultural heritage resource to sustain, survive and recover from anything that would degrade or destroy it. Cultural heritage resources are vulnerable to many threats, each requiring consideration of individual risks and potential response actions. At the San Antonio Missions in Texas, we are engaged in a process to enhance heritage resilience in the face of multiple vulnerabilities, natural as well as human-made. The efforts aim to achieve the complementary objectives of increased resilience for both the tangible buildings and their intangible values. Both tangible and intangible will be discussed in this presentation, but intangible heritage will be a focus because it is more difficult to protect due to the nature of laws and regulations largely based on property ownership. The central question will concern how a heritage professional can work to sustain the intangible from being marginalized, lost or erased due to low capacity for resilience. </SPAN></P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN><STRONG>William Dupont </STRONG><SPAN>is a professor of architecture at The University of Texas at San Antonio, where he leads the Center for Cultural Sustainability in research projects on the heritage of people as a core element of a sustainable future. </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P CLASS="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Using examples from San Antonio, Texas, William Dupont will explain his work on cultural sustainability and seek responses from the audience to further a global conversation.</SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></P>
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GML Heritage, Australia Council Building, Level 6

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