Contemporary trends in cultural heritage protection, planning and management

• To provide the ability to critically and systematically review and report on relevant bibliography;
• To update students, through open discussion and presentation among peers, with the contemporary research trends
• To train students to critically analyse, understand and use concepts, new information and ideas employed in heritage context in academy and in practice at international level
• To consolidate the holistic approach to the research as introduced during the first year of study
• To equip students with the skills necessary to successfully share and pass knowledge to other peers

Students are expected to develop an advanced draft of the dissertation proposal with fundamental readings list for a feedback and review before the beginning of the course.

• Seminars, open discussions in different fields of knowledge involved in heritage protection, planning and management focusing on contemporary research perspectives and trends.
• Scientific events of the University of Nova Gorica and research projects of the Cultural heritage studies

• Student’s capacity to pursue independent bibliographical research within broad and complex range of topics inherent to heritage studies
• Publication and communication potential, learning interactive –scientific discussion
• Successful written and public presentation of dissertation proposal focusing on critical presentation of bibliographical background related to the contemporary research trends

Selected literature may differ each year and will be given accordingly to the selected thematic field.

• Active participation in classroom • Written report

Saša Dobričić is a full professor of architecture at the University of Nova Gorica, where she acts as founding director of the doctoral program in Cultural Heritage Studies and of the Joint degree Masters entitled Economics and Techniques for the Conservation of the Architectural and Environmental Heritage, jointly established between University of Nova Gorica (SI) and University IUAV of Venice (I). She acts as president of the UNISCAPE (European Network of Universities dedicated to landscape studies and education according to the principles of the European Landscape Convention), with the mandate 2024-2028. She is a member of the Slovenian National Commission UNESCO and a member of the IAES (International Academy for Environmental Sciences) scientific committee. Her research interests and contributions are focused on the interpretation of urban phenomena and their implications for sustainability, with a particular emphasis on heritage and adaptive reuse, urban landscape components, green infrastructures, and societal integration. In 2022 she has been appointed by GO! 2025 to coordinate green spatial strategy for the ECoC 2025. She has promoted several international research initiatives to foster a holistic and integrated vision for urban sustainability: in 2010, Creative Cities, Which Historic Urban Landscape?, in 2013 for Uniscape, Living Landscape- The European Landscape Convention in Research Perspective, in 2013, Common Goods: out of property which rights for users? and in 2020/21 international conference of European universities entitled Cultivating the Continuity of European Landscape. Currently she is involved in EU research initiatives dealing with the circular regeneration models, NBS and re-naturing of the cities, in specific; HORIZON 2020-CLIC and URBiNAT; HORIZON EUROPE- Re-Value and GreenInCities focusing on climate neutrality, urban quality and inclusive green urban transition. Since 2022, she has been part of the working group for the European Capital of Culture Nova Gorica – Gorizia 2025, providing consultancy on the spatial strategy of the cross-border twin city for the ECoC initiative.