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CCHS seminar: from urban informality to living heritage: engaging with Yangon city making practices
04 February 2020, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
CCHS seminar : from urban informality to living heritage: engaging with Yangon city making practices
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Cecile Bremont – Centre for Critical Heritage Studies
Location
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Seminar room 612UCL Institute of Archaeology31-34 Gordon squareLondonWC1H 0PYUnited Kingdom
Myanmar’s governments have used forced relocation and land confiscation since the 1950s, as a means of achieving ‘Burmanisation’ through acts of spatial violence perpetrated against ethnic, political and religious minorities and the urban poor. Despite an emergent democratisation process, threats of evictions remain. The democratic opening and the geo economic changes of Myanmar in the recent years have fostered a fast transformation of Yangon’s urban fabric. In this fast pace urban changes Yangon’s rich cultural and built environment heritage is under threat and a legal and institutional framework for its preservation is still lacking. Within this context, this presentation will discuss the urban transformation trajectories of the city of Yangon, the multiple key actors and partners we have engaged with and how we have set up an innovative collaborative research project. We will present the general outline of a recently British Academy funded project entitled 'Framing Living Heritage as Tool to Prevent Spatial Violence'. This project will explore the intersection of heritage, land/housing rights, conflict and forced displacement as central issues in the urban dimension of Myanmar’s peace-building processes.
This presentation is based on a project funded by the Small Grants Scheme of the UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS) and the Global Engagement Office (GOE) Funds.
Open to all. No Registration required.
Please note that room and time are subject to change, so it strongly advised to double check details on the website before heading to the seminar. Thank you for your understanding.
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About the Speaker
Catalina Ortiz & Giovanna Astolfo
Associate Professor & Senior Teaching Fellow at UCL Development Planning Unit
Dr Catalina Ortiz is an architect and urbanist. She is interested in the negotiated co-production of space in the Global South. Particularly, she focuses on participatory methods to understanding the territorial and relational nature of urban spaces and the political economy of urban design. Her worked has focused on Latin American and South East Asian Cities. She is Associate Professor and co-programme leader of the MSc programme in Building and Urban Design in Development at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.
Dr Giovanna Astolfo is an urban researcher with an architectural theory and practice background. As a Senior Fellow at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London, she combines research-based teaching and action learning from several contested and ungovernable urban geographies in South East Asia, the Amazon region and Southern Europe with a focus on non-conventional urbanisms, continuous displacement and migration, spatial violence and housing justice.