02 August 2013

The new CHIEF Award announced. Opportunities and challenges in the revitalization and communication of industrial heritage sites

Pilsner Urquell Factory by Laura Lafon, CC-BY-NC

The new CHIEF Award competition is now open.

As always, all you need to do in order to participate to the contest is to submit your entry into the CHIEF Forum.

The participant with the best contribution to the CHIEF forum topic “Models for S&T-CH-CCI Cooperation” will be able to travel to the Creative Cultural Heritage workshop happening following the European Heritage Days, held in the context of the preparation of Pilsen 2015 - European Capital of Culture.

To enter in this competition, you just need to register in the CHIEF forum and make an entry in the discussion theme “Models for S&T-CH-CCI Cooperation”, by the 15th of August of 2013.

This entry must be original, must relate with the opportunities and challenges in the revitalization and communication of industrial heritage sites, should not be longer than 700 words, and can be:

a) a presentation of a Cultural Heritage project, either executed with your participation or an idea that could be implemented;
b) an idea for a collaborative Cultural Heritage project;
c) a suggestion for the local CreativeCH Showcases.

To register in the CHIEF forum, click here.

After registering, you can submit your entry in either of the following topics or by creating a new topic here: http://chief.uc.pt/forum/viewforum.php?f=12 

Detailed rules of this award can be found at:
http://chief.uc.pt/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=15  

The workshop will focus on the opportunities and challenges in the revitalization and communication of industrial heritage sites. Revitalization involves adapted new uses of such sites often in the form of facilities for cultural organisations (museums, galleries, etc.) or work spaces for creative industry businesses. 

The workshop will present and discuss approaches for creative cooperation of site developers, creative businesses, S&T and cultural heritage organisations for communicating industrial heritage to new and young audiences.