CULTURAL HERITAGE  RESOURCES  FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT  AND  TOURISM STRATEGIES

An intensive course  - at postgraduate level - will be organized by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven  (Belgium) from 13-19 September 2009. The main objective of this project  is  to discuss - in an international forum-  strategies  to valorize local  cultural  heritage  resources for  local  development. The initiative  is sponsored by the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR-UOS) in the context of a scientific development-funding program.  The focus of the course is on cultural heritage as a potential resource for local and regional economic impulses. In many situations tourism has become an important economic driver for local development, if not the only one. The mechanism and conditions of this process needs to be scanned.  

For invited or selected speakers of the second day’s seminar:

each oral presentation is limited to 10 to 15 minutes.  
After the presentations in each session there will be time for debate and formulation of suggestions or guidelines. Each presentation aims at contributing to the discussion and participants will have had the possibility to read the extended abstract in advance.  

Please submit an abstract up to 500 words indicating the topic, scope and general content before 23th of February.
Please send the files of oral presentation in ppt and an extended abstract (approx. 1500 words) as Word document before 16th of March.

For poster presenters:

Please submit the text up to 500 words of your proposed topic indicating the topic, scope, content and the thematic seminar this poster is located, before 16th of February.
The final selection of poster presentation will be decided before 27th of February.

All the posters will be presented in A0 portrait. The detailed format of poster (ppt file format) will be online format to download after 27th of February.
Final poster should be submitted in pdf file format before 16th of March and the authors will be requested to bring a hard copy with them, to be applied in the morning of March 24th at the inauguration (before 10:00 a.m.) and a second time at the place of the seminar the day after.
Posters should address research and/or practical experience relevant to the themes of the seminars. No commercial posters or commercial publicity on posters will be allowed for display without previous explicit consent of the organizers."

Please submit your abstract by email: Hannelore.Dekeyser(at)asro.kuleuven.be.
(Further details of poster and oral presentation will be confirmed after the selection.)

Contact:

Ms. Hannelore De Keyser, Administrative coordinator
Raymond Lemaire International Center for Conservation, K.U.Leuven
Kasteelpark Arenberg 1, bus 2431
B-3001 Leuven (BEL)
Tel.: +32 16 32.17.48
Fax.: +32 16 32.19.83
E-mail: Hannelore.Dekeyser(at)asro.kuleuven.be

Registration is free but required (except for the dinner, 55€).

To Register:

• Online Form 
• Download a form and send a Fax: <Form >: Please fill in the registration form, send it to the secretariat and complete the payment before 9th of March. Places are limited.
  

Your registration will be confirmed by e-mail.

If you need a hotel:

We have blocked an amount of rooms from 23 till 26 March, in following hotels.
Prices include breakfast. Reservations should be made directly with the hotel before  23 February, using the appropriate reference.
1.    Ibis Leuven Centrum            
Brusselsestraat 52
3000 Leuven
Tel +3216293111
Fax +3216238792
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www.ibishotel.com
Single room at 105,00 € per room per night
Double room at 119,00 € per room per night
Block booking reference: UNESCO CHAIR KUL
2.    Novotel Leuven Centrum
Vuurkruisenlaan 4
3000 Leuven
Tel +3216213200
Fax +3216213201
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www.accorhotels.com
mon-tue-wed:   Single room at 135,00 € per room per night
                       Double room at 155,00 € per room per night
Thursday:    Single room at 95,00 € per room per night
double room at 115,00 € per room per night
Block booking reference: KULEUVEN 015834

26 June 2008, De Oude Molen (Studio) - Heverlee, Arenberg Kasteel

Final presentation of the Integrated Project Work of the first year students

Programme:

10:00h 12:00h	“SINT-JANSHOSPITAAL”, BRUGES
	Team: Dalia NABIL (interior architect – art historian, Egypt) - Veronica HERAS (architect, Ecuador) - Ben DE VRIENDT (archaeologist, Belgium) - Ioannis TSATSOS (architect, Greece) - Thomas DE VOS (art historian - archaeologist, Belgium)
	Who doesn’t know the “Oud Sint-Jansite” in the middle of the historic city of Bruges? But do you really know it? Our integrated project work has tried to understand first this rather complex site in all its dimensions. This diagnosis helped us in a second step to redefine a Masterplan for the site in order to give it back its identity. At its foundation in the 12th century, the “Sint-Janhospitaal” was the only socio-medical institution in the city. The hospital included a huge refreshing green medieval garden where patients could relax. The quietness of this open space contrasted with the crowdie commercial life in the streets of Bruges; once merchants, today tourists. The enclosed garden was the perfect place where the soul of the patient could be cured; the body got welfare inside. Times changed; more functional space was needed; green became parking. Whereas the monuments are still preserved, the spirit of the site is lost.
14:00h 16:00h	OBSERVATORY OF COINTE, LIÈGE
	Team: Tokiko ONAKA (architect, Japan) - Armande HELLEBOIS (civil engineer, Belgium) - Barbara FOGARASI (architect, Hungary) - Bie PLEVOETS (interior-architect, Belgium) - Luis ALBERS (architect, Venezuela)
	The observatory of Cointe was built in 1881 by the provincial architect of Liege, Lambert Noppius. It is a neo-gothic brick construction with some additions in the 1960's. The complex was used as an astrophysics institute until 2000. Nowadays, the owner is the Ministry of Equipment and Transport of the Walloon Region. The building is empty but it will soon receive a new function.
17:00h	OPENING EXPO OF THE PRESENTED PROJECT WORKS - RECEPTION