Understanding Cultural Heritage

• The course title is Architectural Conservation 01, also known as AD 0251.
• Group 1 is scheduled for Fridays from 08:30 AM to 12:30 PM in room 1B12C.
• Group 2 is scheduled for Fridays from 01:30 PM to 05:30 PM in room 1B12C.
• It is worth 3 units.
• The course involves lectures, readings, site visits, and documentation exercises to appreciate heritage and conservation.

Course Outcomes

• Appreciation of the importance and value of heritage resources, and the need to conserve them is required.
• Significance of a resource must be determined.
• The appropriate acceptable intervention must be distinguished.
• Knowledge of how to carry out the various types of interventions is a must.

Class Policies

• Students with over 20% absences will be given NC or a grade of 5.0.
• Dishonesty and plagiarism result in major disciplinary actions.
• Re-admission is required after 3 absences to be allowed to take examinations.
• More than 15 minutes tardiness is considered an absence.
• Cellphones and gadgets are prohibited during exams.
• Written requirements must follow instructions strictly.

Heritage Defined

• Heritage refers to a collection of buildings, structures, and sites with architectural and cultural significance.
• Heritage allows understanding of history, culture, and identity
• Heritage enhances beauty of surroundings and serves connection between past, present and future.

Conservation Defined

• Conservation of cultural heritage extends the life of cultural heritage.
• Conservation strengthens transmission of significant heritage messages and values.
• The aim of conservation is to maintain the physical and cultural object characteristics.
• Conservation ensures heritage value isn't diminished and that it outlives our limited time span.

Culture Defined

• Culture refers to cumulative knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings and hierarchies.
• Culture refers to religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations and concepts of universe.
• Culture refers to material objects and possessions acquired by people in the course of generations through striving.

Cultural Heritage Defined

• Cultural heritage includes artifacts, monuments, groups of building and sites, and museums.
• Values include symbolic, historic, artistic, aesthetic, ethnological, anthropological, scientific, and social significance.
• Tangible heritage includes movable, immobile, and underwater.
• Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is embedded into cultural and natural heritage artifacts, sites of monuments.

Old vs Antique

• Old: objects less than 100 years old that have no significance worth noting
• Antique: Objects that are more than 100 years old with known significance

History vs Heritage

• History: Derived from the Latin word "HISTORIA" which means an account of events in the past
• Heritage: Is an old Franch word and refers to things that have been passed on from earlier generations to the present.

Components of Culture

• Values
• Experience
• Hierarchies
• Beliefs
• Attitudes
• Language
• Customs
• Religion
• Relationships
• Rituals
• Material Objects

Types of Heritage

• Cultural
• Natural
• National Heritage Sites
• World Heritage Sites

Cultural Heritage Properties

• Beliefs, values, practices, and objects give a place its character.
• Totality of cultural property is preserved, developed, and passed on.
• Cultural heritage includes both tangible (movable/non-movable) and intangible elements.

Tangible vs Intangible

• Tangible: Built and Natural
• Intangible: e.g. Games and traditions

Cultural Significance

• Cultural significance is defined as aesthetic, historic, scientific, social, or spiritual value.
• It is of import to past, present and future generations.

Levels of Significance

• International
• National
• Provincial/City/Municipal
• Personal

Determining Significance

• Factors include its rarity, building style, architects, builders and owners.
• Significance is determined by materials, age, condition, and history.

Heritage Awareness

• Heritage awareness results in heritage understanding.
• Heritage understanding results in heritage appreciation.
• Heritage appreciation results in heritage conservation.
• Cannot protect what is not appreciated, appreciate what is not understood, or understand what is unknown.

Assignment

• One (1) Local Built Heritage (Philippines)
• One (1) International Built Heritage
• One (1) Natural Heritage
• Two (2) Intangible Heritage (Game, Dance, Tradition, etc) in Cebu Province
• Due on Feb 07, 2025
• A4 Paper required

Explore cultural significance, heritage types, and conservation. Understand the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage. Discover how heritage shapes a location's identity and the importance of its preservation.