Water, Culture and Heritage - Connecting water management challenges with water related heritage
Our side event at the Amsterdam International Water Week initiates the development of the international Water, Culture and Heritage Platform. The event will set out with the Dutch Heritage Deal as an example that bridges the mandatory, institutional and disciplinary divides, and will be followed by pitches and round table discussions among MSc and PhD students on their research work on the significance of water related heritage for today, followed by thematic Round Table discussions, followed by recommendations for the World Water Forum 10 in Bali in May, 2024, and leading into the session of Wetskills challenges.
The side event is organised by ICOMOS ISC Water-NL in cooperation with IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, WaterNet AGV, Wetskills, Koninklijk Nederlands WaterNetwerk, Amsterdam International Water Week and TUDelft.
The side event will be linked up to the Water and Heritage conference ‘Waterscapes – Water Landscapes: uniting the past with the future’ in Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, Spain on 6 - 7 November 2023, organised by ICOMOS Spain and ICOMOS-IFLA ISC Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL) in collaboration with ICOMOS Netherlands Focus Group Water & Heritage and ICOMOS ISC Water Heritage (ISC Water). This will include a first step to create an open Working Group between ISCCL and ISC Water.
Programme
09:30 Welcome and Introduction
- Björn Stenvers, President ICOMOS NL
- Henk van Schaik, Vice President International Scientific Committee Water and Heritage, ICOMOS
9:15 – 11:15 Water and Heritage National programmes
Chair Jeroen Oomkens, WaterNet
9:20 – 9:40 Policies and practices of the Water Boards in The Netherlands,
Speaker to be named
9:40 – 10:10 The Heritage Deal of The Netherlands,
Jephta Dullaart, Programme Leader
10:10 – 10:30 The Dutch Compendium,
Maarten Ouboter, WaterNet, Amstel Gooi en Vecht
10.30 – 10.50 Panel discussion:
Reflections from international young water professionals
10:50 – 11:15 Discussion between speakers, young professionals and audience
11:15 – 13:00 Water related heritage for today and tomorrow
Chair Mila Avellar Montezuma
11:15 Water and Heritage, International perspective
Eddy Moors, Rector IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
11.15 – 11.25 The significance of water related heritage for water management today
Perspectives from the Blue Papers,
Carola Hein, TU Delft and UNESCO Chair Water, Ports and Historic Cities
11.25 – 11.35 Water and Heritage, international perspective
Eddy Moors, Rector IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
11:30 Pitches
Pitches on Significance Water related heritage for water management challenges
Moderator: Chris Zevenbergen, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
MSc and PhD students will present their research on the significance of water related heritage for present water management challenges.
12:00 - 12:50. Thematic Round Tables on:
- Traditional irrigation in mountainous areas
- Small Hydropower for green power generation
- Water and Landscapes
- Historic Water governance systems
- Water related rituals, ethics and spirituality
- Valuation methodologies of significance of water related heritage
12:50 – 13:00 Plenary discussion on creation of Water, Culture and Heritage Platform and next steps
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - Wetskills