Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding Camp
Overview
Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding Camp is organized by the Raquda Foundation for Arts and Heritage under the sponsorship of the House of Egyptian Architecture, Al Qalam Arts and Culture, and the Yakiniyah House of Arts and Heritage. The camp was held in July 2021 in the heart of historic Cairo (one of the most important World Heritage sites), in the Darb al-Ahmar area.
The main discussion of the camp was the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and linking it to the process of sustainable development. Also, the camp discussed how to monitor and preserve intangible cultural heritage and develop it to achieve sustainable development. This was done through a group of workshops and trainings that were held throughout the duration of the camp on how to document and monitor some of Egypt’s legacies in historic Cairo and link them to heritage sites such as wooden industry design thinking. It was also discussed how to present these legacies locally and internationally, heritage interpretation, and how the manufacture of products associated with these intangible legacies will be rooted and developed.
Goals
The idea of the “The safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage” camp came about in order for the civil and cultural community to respond and interact with the international trend and local interest in preserving and re-establishing Egyptian cultural heritage through documenting, studying, and identifying possibilities for preserving and developing it. Ten researchers from different specialties, all interested in the field of heritage, participated in the camp, and the Raquda Foundation cooperated with an elite group of lecturers, who are a group of experts in the fields of architecture, heritage, and the arts, many of whom are already local and international experts at UNESCO.
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