The international conference entitled “Heritage Adaptive Reuse and Circular Economy” will be held in Rijeka on 27-28 March 2019 within the framework of the CLIC project, Circular Models Leveraging Investments in Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse, financed by the EU programme HORIZON2020.

The conference aims at sharing experiences and knowledge on the three main topics of the CLIC project, namely:

• Adaptive reuse of cultural heritage – what does adaptive reuse means, which are the conditions to carry out appropriate adaptive reuse, how the concept of adaptive reuse is integrated into the conservation theory and how we do distinguish adaptive reuse from restoration and conservation.
• Circular economy in urban development – what circular economy is and how it relates to the building sector with a specific attention to cultural heritage maintenance and preservation, which are the main links and field of application of the circular economy in the building sector and if there are already successful stories in applying circular economy to cultural heritage;
• Historic Urban landscape and sustainability – what are we referring to when we talk about historic urban landscape, how the concept developed in the international debate and how do we assess it for its preservation, given that preservation is the real challenge for HUL. In addition, how is the concept of historic urban landscape relating to circular economy and cultural heritage preservation and adaptive reuse.

The conference will tackle the above topics through an ad-hoc perspective, given by the case study of Rijeka, European Cultural Capital in 2020, that has already undertaken numerous redevelopment projects at different scales and which is part of the CLIC consortium, as well as through an international practices exchange, by presenting different ongoing initiatives in Europe and abroad.

Within the Midterm Conference, Rijeka will host other two events. Indeed, the third HUL Workshop will take place on 28th March. Coordinated by the CLIC partner TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology), the Historic Urban Landscape workshop will challenge the local stakeholders in Rijeka together with the partners to define, through the HUL approach, the main cultural project implementation bottlenecks and barriers in the city and brainstorm solutions to overcome them. The stakeholders are local authorities, practitioners, NGOs, policymakers, researchers, and SMEs who are actively involved in the domain of cultural heritage, circular economy, and urban planning.

The third day will be dedicated to the Peer-Review meeting, hosted at RiHub on 29th March. This will be a great occasion for knowledge exchange among cities, confronted to the problems and solutions in the heritage projects in Rijeka. This activity will be restricted to the CLIC cities and partners as well as stakeholders in Rijeka dealing with adaptive reuse and circular economy.

Download the CLIC Midterm Conference agenda 27-29

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