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What means Sustainability?

Is there only one way towards Sustainability?

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Can Heritage buildings welcome sustainability and participatory processes?

How can GIS and BIM software improve decision and policy making towards this direction?

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“Cultural Landscapes are intended to increase awareness that heritage places (sites) are not isolated islands and that there is an interdependence of people, social structures, and the landscape and associated ecological systems.” Ken Taylor & Jane Lennon

Cultural Landscapes Components:

key locations + a narrative that connects them.

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multi-scalar and based on history or traditions

Promotes sustainable development

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Urban Fabric and Architecture Heritage Platform - UFAHP

• Citizen Science – Crowdsourcing – Open Software

• Citizen Participation not Citizen Designers

• Search of sustainability for structures that can be easily retrofitted

• Answer to the Needs of small – medium cities:

Work in their self esteem

Discover their heritage treasures

Foster cultural spaces and tourist attractions

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How are we integrating Data?

• Relating information from different sources

GIS uses spatial - temporal location as the key index variable for all other information.

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Where do these information came from? Where does it go?

• Visualize and analyze complex data

Through Public – Private Partnerships (PPP).

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Which are the new stakeholders?

• Associations

• Vulnerable population

• Tourists

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Which is the new purpose?

Empowerment, Civic engagement and Sustainability

Redistribution of data and Exchange of Knowledge.

More participatory and resilient processes.

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Which are the new outcomes?

• Audiovisual and Physical Heritage preservation

• Inclusion Programs

• Cultural guides

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Events organization - Igualada, Amics del Rec

• Show livable streets

• Record of past editions

• Most transited streets

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Urban Study - Igualada, Original Work

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• Historical Images

• New analysis

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Building Use Transformation - Igualada, Original Work

• Map of Building Uses

• Diagrams with historic uses

• New analysis

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Social Memories- Igualada, Amics del Rec

• Artistic projects

• Historical Pictures

• New paths

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Audiovisual Heritage - Matadero, Madrid (Soundreaders)

• Audiovisual works

• Old and new

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BIM Models – Original Work

• 3D Visualization

• Functional, Material Diagrams

• Shadow, Energy Analysis

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• Have you googled yourself?

• Wouldn’t be great to search for your address on a Platform and find out how it used to be and who lived there before?

UFAHP (Urban Fabric and Architecture Heritage Platform) aims to be a geolocated tool where everyone can link their valuable information regarding places.

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"It is clear that for serious societal and environmental issues, designing for change cannot be a solitary activity. Inevitably it is a social endeavor." Carl Steinitz.