The United Kingdom is at long last committed to the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Our speakers will update attendees on progress, in particular the start of work on the Inventory, which will have a section for each part of the United Kingdom. As a bit of a memory jog as to the range of activities and issues which constitute Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), attendees are encouraged to look at the fascinating range across the world within the UNESCO Inventory as this may spark ideas of potential UK entries. It will also prove a moment for all on Zoom that evening to congratulate Janet Blake on her recently awarded OBE.
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Speakers
- Dr Janet Blake OBE FRSA is the Director of the Persian Garden Institute for Living Heritage, an NGO accredited to UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage and a member of UNESCO’s Global Network of Facilitators for that Convention. She has acted as an independent expert for UNESCO on the treaty’s development and implementation since 1999, including as the Rapporteur of its Restricted Drafting Group in 2002. From 2001 to 2024, she was a Professor of Environmental and Human Rights Law at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran) where she was the International Relations Director of the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy (from 2009 to 2017) and an academic member of the Environmental Sciences Research Institute (from 2001 to 2007) and of the Centre for Excellence in Education for Sustainable Development (from 2014 to 2024).
- Phil Foxwood, DCMS is Head of World and Living Heritage, DCMS Media & International Directorate, and thus a UK civil servant at DCMS. He leads the UK’s work on intangible cultural heritage (ICH). He was a key figure in the process of the UK’s ratification of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. He is the DCMS Lead on the “Climate Change and UNESCO Heritage” project, a collaborative initiative involving the UK National Commission for UNESCO. His background also includes work on fiscal events within the DCMS and a large online film archive project at the British Film Institute.
- Joanne Orr has over 35 years of experience working in museums, heritage and culture across both the private and public sector in an exciting range of change and development capacities. Joanne is now a freelance consultant and Director of Living Culture Development specialising in both museum development and intangible cultural heritage. She is a trained facilitator and part of UNESCO’s Global Network of Facilitators for the 2003 Convention. A graduate of Leicester University with an MA in Museum Studies and the Museums Leadership Institute funded by the Getty foundation, Joanne also has an MBA from Durham University and academic degrees in history and industrial archaeology. Joanne has served as a Director of the ICOM UK Board and on the UK National Commission for UNESCO. She is the author of the Routledge publication ‘Practitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage’.
- Daniel Carpenter is Executive Director of Heritage Crafts. He has worked in the arts, crafts and heritage sectors for the past 18 years, including at Creative Lives (formerly Voluntary Arts), the national charity set up to promote active participation in everyday creativity. He led Heritage Crafts’ Pre-Apprenticeship project in West Somerset in 2017, and was commissioned in 2018 to lead the research on the second edition of Red List of Endangered Crafts, before being recruited onto the staff team in 2019. He is a Trustee of Arts&Heritage, an Ambassador of The Fathom Trust, a judge for the Global Eco Artisan Awards, and a Committee of Recommendation Member for the Ambacht in Beeld Festival in the Netherlands.
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