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

• 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 Dobričič is a full professor at the University of Nova Gorica and the founding director of the doctoral study Economics and Techniques of Architectural and Landscape Heritage Conservation, now Cultural Heritage Studies, which was established together with the University of IUAV in Venice. She is the President of the UNISCAPE (European Network of Universities for the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention) network and a member of the scientific committee of the IAES (International Academy for Environmental Sciences). Her research interests focus on the interpretation of urban phenomena, especially in relation to landscape, heritage and the environment. She has organized several international meetings and initiatives: in 2010 Creative Cities: Which Historic Urban Landscape? in 2012, Common Good: Beyond Ownership, What Rights for Users? In 2013, together with JPI Urban Europe, she organized the meeting The New Urban World. Future Challenges and Responses of Urban Systems in Motion.