Living Heritage 2019- Heritage tours and the conference.

With the support of European Union, the embassy of Germany, Italian embassy,  the Netherlands and British Council, 'Living heritage' is run from 2017 to consider the cultural heritage of Sri Lanka.  In this year it was held on 24-25^th of March under the reading of ‘Valuing cultural heritage-A cross cultural perspective’. It has structured as an international conference along with heritage tours. The tours were guided by the architects Varuna De Silva, Anjalendran and the art historian Prof. Ashoka De Soiza. The speakers from France, India, Italy, Maldives, Netherlands, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom delivered their speech with these main readings.

·        Challenges of heritage preservation

·        Cultural heritage and places of worship

·        Of castles and forts: Making the past contemporary

·        Design development and urbanism in South Asian architecture

·        Way forward

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                    Conference