Project Profile: SUSTHERIT
Transformative urban heritage. Strategies for a sustainable European historic housing stock.
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Robert Musil, ISR, Austria |
| Partners: | Said Belguidoum, IREMAM, France Robert Rogerson, IFC, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Ludek Sykora, Charles University, Czechia Orkun Kasap, IDB/ITA ETHZ, Switzerland Emmanuel Matteudi, LIEU, France Frederic Bossard, Agam, France Florian Brand, HuB Architekten ZT GmbH, Austria Chris Morgan, John Gilbert Architects Ltd, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Eirini Gallou, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Kenneth Gibb, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Bob Giddings, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Tim Sharpe, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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What?
| Full Project Title: | Transformative urban heritage. Strategies for a sustainable European historic housing stock. |
| Full Call Title: | CCH2023: CCH2023- Climate and Cultural Heritage |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | Within the European city, the historic housing stock often comprises a compact, densely built-up area close to city centres. Due to its urbanistic and architectural qualities as well as the key socio-economic function it plays in the urban housing market, this stock has a considerable and important role in the identity of the European city. Although often formally recognised as such in planning policy, historic housing never the less constitutes a tangible and intangible heritage, and for many communities it is central to urban living. However, market pressure and climate adaptation and mitigation strategies proposed by city and national governments threaten this cultural heritage. Long-term under-investment and disrepair of this housing has meant that making this stock more carbon neutral is costly and technically challenging. Where such action has been taken - usually based in individual buildings - commodification, gentrification, and displacement pressures might result. Consequently, the demolition of this cultural heritage is a real risk faced by European cities. The main intention of this project is to identify and evaluate how historic housing, viewed asa valued element of cultural heritage, can contribute to urban climate action, identifying opportunities and good practices as well as social, economic and policy barriers. Our focus is on using existing formal and informal knowledge of this cultural heritage, including everyday practices of residents, as well as strategies for climate adaptation and mitigation. Using a transnational comparative approach, transdisciplinary expertise, and local stakeholder insights, the project provides an analysis of the role of different actor constellations, regulations, and ownership structures of the housing stock in cities within four different urban contexts? Marseille, Vienna, Prague, and Glasgow? to create a toolkit (methodology) that comprises pan-European strategies and practices that assist in scaling up local strategies and practices of climate-change mitigation for the historic housing stock. |
| Call Objective: | This Call aims to support transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches on cultural heritage and climate change, to foster collaboration among the research community across several regions, and to contribute to knowledge advances and policy change at the global level. Applicants are invited to submit research proposals that address at least one of the three call themes: 1. The Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage; 2. Cultural Heritage as a Resource for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation; 3. Sustainable Solutions for Heritage. |
Where?
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When?
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Call Date: | 26 April 2023 |
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