Adaptive Reuse aids Recovery
I think that the current approach to the adaptive re-use of buildings as a peacebuilding initiative suffers from many of the same...
Building A Reflexive practice
Kaufman states, “[I]n order to see the big picture you have to have an understanding of the more narrow view through which you see the...
Understanding The Bedrock of Reality
To study the everyday worlds and accomplishments of ordinary persons is to touch bedrock reality The everyday The ‘everyday’ is a...
Local Recognition and the ringing of UNESCO Bells in Iraq
After the last major battle for Mosul and whilst pockets of ISIS were still active in the city, I began searching for sites of civil...
Unrest and Unity at UNESCO's 70yrs Conference
The International Conference “Cultural Heritage and Peace: Building on 70 years of UNESCO Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural...
Magical Thinking in Wartime
There is a growing surge of Art as Resistance to War campaigns but what about the art created by so-called 'non-artists', those who are...
Don’t Keep Plodding On
Rather than plodding on[1], perhaps it’s time to stride meaningfully forward and deliver peace-building projects confident in the DNA and...
The Threshold Between The Everyday and The Nonpareil
There is so much potential in exploring the threshold spaces between the 'everyday' and the nonpareil especially when one escapes the...
UNESCO DNA & Reasons For Dismay
“since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that defences of peace must be constructed” (Attlee, 1945) Founded in...
Every Day is World Heritage Day
Today, however, it is World Heritage Day or The International Day for Monuments and Sites ( ICOMOS 1982, UNESCO 1983). This commemorative...