Kafaat for Reconstruction
Culture and Heritage Management Department
Culture and Heritage Management Department
The Culture and Heritage Management Department is dedicated to researching reconstruction issues related to cultural and heritage aspects and contributing to heritage and cultural identity management. This is achieved through raising community awareness about the importance of education and local cultural heritage in accelerating recovery and development, ensuring sustainable and inclusive reconstruction, introducing negative heritage, and initiating projects for the management and awareness of Syria’s negative heritage. Additionally, the department provides theoretical research and engineering studies for restoring tangible architectural heritage, including traditional and historical urban fabrics affected by wars, and exploring ways to preserve all elements of this heritage.
The Heritage Management Department seeks to implement situational leadership and apply a win-win policy that benefits both members and the department’s objectives at the same time by:
Preparing lecture series
Negative Heritage Management Initiative
Urban Representation of Negative Heritage
"Stones and Souls" Initiative
Restoration projects
Traditional Architecture
1- Preparing lecture series
● Preparing a comprehensive lecture series on post-war architectural heritage (its significance, damage assessment, restoration, and rehabilitation) and delivering it either at Syrian universities (through the department’s representatives in Syria) or online..
2- Negative Heritage Management Initiative
Continuing work within the Negative Heritage Management Initiative to raise awareness about the positive utilization of such heritage and striving to implement artistic or architectural development projects directly or through partnerships and memorandums of understanding. The initiative also involves working with educational specialists to propose or develop educational materials that constructively employ negative heritage.
Advancing the Urban Representation of Negative Heritage initiative by incorporating negative heritage elements into reconstruction and rehabilitation projects, aiming to represent three sites, averaging one site every two months.
Launching the “Stones and Souls” Initiative, which focuses on heritage-hosting communities. In its first phase, the initiative will concentrate on Palmyra, introducing its community and culture through workshops, social media publications, and forming a dedicated interest group.
Participating in an actual restoration project within Syria, serving as a practical model executed by skilled professionals.
6- Traditional Architecture
● Initiating a project that integrates traditional architecture into post-war reconstruction buildings.
7- memorandums of understanding
● Working on signing memorandums of understanding with governmental entities in Syria and establishing networks with non-governmental organizations.
The working mechanism of the Culture and Heritage Department is based on ongoing initiatives aimed at ensuring a sustainable impact. These initiatives are adopted by identifying the common ground between community needs and the capabilities and interests of the department’s active members. The department primarily relies on active volunteer members and interest groups.
The Heritage Management Department seeks to implement situational leadership and apply a win-win policy that benefits both members and the department’s objectives at the same time by:
