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July, 2004
Prizren
Historical City Core
Facts
and impressions from the Workshop “Integrated conservation";
preservation and urban Planning in Prizren November 2002
Preamble
A
workshop entitled “Integrated Conservation” was held
on location in Prishtina and Prizren, Kosovo, from the 20th of
November to the 30th of November 2002. The workshop included one
week of fieldwork in Prizren. The overall aim was institutional
capacity building in accordance to the national Heritage Conservation
Policy approved by the Department of Culture in July 2002. The
workshop was monitored by the Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sports
and non-residents Affairs (MCYSNRA) Department of Culture (DoC).
The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (MES) and UN-Habitat
supported the workshop. Implementing partner was Cultural Heritage
without Borders (CHwB). Ms Gjejlane Hoxha and Mr Gerard Links,
DoC constituted the steering group for the workshop. Ms Vjollca
Aliu, DoC, functioned as coordinator during the whole project.
The financial means came jointly from DoC and the Swedish Development
and Co-operation Agency (Sida).
Invited
participants were staff from the Institutes for Protection of
Monuments on national and regional level, urban planners and students
of architecture. Prizren Old Town was chosen as object for the
fieldwork, based on the conclusion that this is the only town
in Kosovo with a remaining and coherent pre-industrial urban fabric.
As a category this heritage is unique and at the same time vulnerable;
threatened by neglect, sabotage and a high building activity.
Mr Shend Kabashi, graduated urban planner from Istanbul Technical
University (ITU), was responsible for planning and conducting
the fieldwork.
The task to compile the result from the workshop was given to
Mr Enes Toska, student at the faculty of Architecture in Pristina
and participator in the workshop.
It
is my hope that the material from the workshop “Integrated
Conservation” will give a fair picture of the great interest
the choice of theme and place brought to mind. Many people have
contributed to the final result. I would like to pay my respect
and gratitude to all lecturers, organisers and participants that
together made the project possible. The physical conditions in
Kosovo demands a special capability to function under quite hard
and sometimes frustrating circumstances. A special thanks to Mr
Abib Ahmedi and his staff at the Institute for protection of Monuments
in Prizren, for offering the use of their building and equipment
during the fieldwork.
Stockholm
– Pristina July 2004.
Ms Kersti Berggren, architect and project manager.
CHwB
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