We invite you to join the second webinar Cultural Heritage in Action by sharing stories on “Flexible reuse of (industrial) buildings with history”!

The webinar will take place on Monday, 4 April at 2 pm CET, as part of the EU-funded Peer Learning Program Cultural Heritage in Action. Speakers from Ljubljana, Brno and Valladolid will take part in it.
You can view and sign up for the program here.

Europe has a rich and multifaceted environment, which includes strong spiritual, cultural, social and economic values. Due to evolution in our economies and societies, many heritage sites, whether listed or not, are now abandoned or have lost the functions for which they were originally built - especially industrial sites.
However, heritage buildings that have lost their original function continue to embody their multiple values. Flexible reuse is offered as a strategy aimed at preserving the elements that contain these values, while adapting the site to new uses and meeting the needs of our time. Through smart restoration and transformation, heritage sites can find new, mixed or expanded uses. As a result, their social, environmental and economic value increases, while their cultural significance increases.
Sensitive adaptive reuse of existing and historic buildings can also play a key role in Europe's green transformation, avoiding energy-intensive new construction and land use, promoting waste avoidance and conserving embodied energy while creating additional positive economic, environmental, social and cultural co-benefits. For this reason, the reuse of (industrial) heritage buildings offers many opportunities to advance the goals of the New European Bauhaus initiative launched by the European Commission in 2020.

Explore, through concrete examples, the benefits of reusing heritage sites, the challenges inherent in adaptive reuse projects as well as the drivers of quality cultural heritage interventions. Among other questions, we will discuss how to preserve the cultural, historical, spatial and economic values ​​of underused heritage sites, while at the same time adapting them to a new, contemporary purpose? What are the benefits of reusing a heritage site? What are the challenges of adaptive reuse projects? What are the drivers of quality cultural heritage interventions - bringing economic and social values ​​to local communities?
To participate, please register here.