kick off tbilisi 17092015

PHILIP STEIN – LEAD EXPERT COMUSTBILISI SEPTEMBER 18TH 2015

Community – led Urban Strategies in Historic TownsTHE COMUS PROJECT

EU Eastern Partnership Culture Programme II

COMUS OBJECTIVES- To enhance social, economic, urban

development practices capitalizing on cultural heritage resources

• Raising the importance of heritage• Fostering an integrated approach• Managing the urban dynamic (constraints and

pressures), and making best use of the urban fabric to support a new modernity

• Introducing stakeholder and citizen participation in the decision-making process

Pilot Project for the Rehabilitation of Cultural heritage in Historic Towns – Kyiv Initiative Regional Programme 2007

WHY INTEGRATED and PARTICIPATIVE?- Evolution in urban management

processes- Leipzig Charter 2007- Europe 2020: smart, green inclusive

growth = smart, green, inclusive towns and cities

- Recognition of the importance of small and medium-sized cities “Cities of Tomorrow” 2011

- Heritage is a player - Increasingly Accepted Good Practice

EXPANDING VOCABULARY- Identity- Authenticity- Preservation- Conservation- Rehabilitation- Monuments & Sites- Specialism- Protection- Heritage at Risk- World Heritage

Cities- Change of Use

- Historic Urban Landscape- Brownfields- Asset, Opportunity- Regeneration- Growth, Resource- Integrated & Sustainable- Partnership- Smart Cities, Green Cities- Socially Inclusive- Low Emission Zones- Community-Led

TERMINOLOGIES – REALITIES INEXTRICABLY LINKED

COMPONENTS OF THE INTEGRATED APPROACH: POLICY AREAS

- Physical Dimension: planning, housing, public open space, infrastructure

- Social Dimension: social services, health, cohesion and neighbourhoods

- Economic Dimension: local economy, employment, budgets and investment capacity

- Environmental Dimension: sustainability, energetics, sensibilisation

- Cultural Dimension: communities, heritage, arts

PROJECT MECHANICS (FORM AND CONTENT)INSPIRATION/INPUT

- Ljubljana Process: Rehabilitating our Common Heritage

- HeRO: Heritage as Opportunity

- URBACT- Pilot Project PP2:

Rehabilitation of Cultural Heritage in Historic Towns – Preliminary Technical Files

4 PHASES

• Inception Phase

• Planning Phase

• Project Phase

• Consolidation Phase

ACTIVITIES

• Local Stakeholder Group / PIU

• Pilot Town Reference Plan (Analysis/Vision and Objectives/ Identification of Actions)

• Concrete Heritage Rehabilitation Projects

THE PILOT TOWNS Armenia- Gyumri, Goris

Belarus- Mstislavi

Georgia- Dusheti

Moldova- Soroca

Ukraine- Lutsk, Zhovka

PHILIP STEINLEAD EXPERT COMUS PROJECT

phstein@skynet.be

PHILIP STEIN – LEAD EXPERT COMUSDUSHETI SEPTEMBER 18TH 2015

Community – led Urban Strategies in Historic TownsTHE COMUS PROJECT

EU Eastern Partnership Culture Programme II

PILOT TOWNS AND THE COMUS PLANNING PHASE

4 PHASES • Inception PhaseSetting agreements and protocols – Understanding

objectives – Building project teams

• Planning Phase

• Project PhaseInitiating specific, priority heritage-led rehabilitation

projects - Seeking to secure funding

• Consolidation PhaseTaking stock, evaluation as key to design/adapt process

and practice

PILOT TOWNS AND THE COMUS PLANNING PHASE

PLANNING PHASE• Revisiting the evidence base – Preliminary

Technical Files (PP2 – Kyiv Initiative)• Building a Local Stakeholder Group and project

management structure – Project Implementation Unit

• Producing a Pilot Town Reference Plan (Framework document and Road Map)- Analysis of key urban issues- Establishing a shared vision and operational objectives- Drawing up a catalogue of actions designed to tackle priority issues and achieve operational objectives

INTEGRATED APPROACH - ADDED VALUEANALYSIS AND INTERACTION OF KEY ISSUES AND

URBAN THEMES

• Level of Influence of Pilot Town• Relationship between project area and

functional urban area• Position of local heritage in urban development

context• Urban Functions• Housing• Capacity for intervention

TRAINING SESSION FOR PROJECT OFFICERS AND MANAGERS – MOBILISING LOCAL STAKEHOLDER GROUPS AND PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION UNITS

WORKSHOPS

• Heritage as cross-cutting theme – integrated approach

• What is a Local Stakeholder Group and who should participate

• Moderating skills • Methods to capitalise on stakeholder

collaboration

PHILIP STEINLEAD EXPERT COMUS PROJECT

phstein@skynet.be