Our seminar and collaborative workshop aim to share knowledge and experiences about participative heritage practices and politics in Thailand. With a special focus on the architectural and urban heritage of the ordinary city, it will examine the processes that involve communities in heritage-making and conservation practices, with insights about the role of local academics, activists, and associations as facilitators in those processes.

Presentation

Our seminar and collaborative workshop aim to share knowledge and experiences about participative heritage practices and politics in Thailand.

With a special focus on the architectural and urban heritage of the ordinary city, it will examine the processes that involve communities in heritage-making and conservation practices, with insights about the role of local academics, activists, and associations as facilitators in those processes.

The seminar is organised in the framework of the international research network « Creating and Mapping the Heritage of the Ordinary City » (CREMA) and in collaboration four institutional partners: namely, Chulalongkorn University, the laboratory Géographie-Cités (UMR 8504), the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE, UMR 8170), and AUSser (UMR 3329).

The objective of the seminar is triple:

• share and disseminate knowledge about heritage in contemporary Thailand;
• build up our partnership within the CREMA network, and work together towards the preparation of the 2024 edition of the summer school « Urban Knowledge Across Borders » (UTAB) which will be organised in Bangkok on the theme of the ordinary heritage of the old historical core of Rattanakosin.

Sessions on November 6th and 7th are open to the public upon registration, whilst the session organised on November 8th is addressed only to members of UTAB’s scientific committee and UTAB alumni.

Location and registration

Condorcet Campus5, cours des Humanités 93322 Aubervilliers Cedex

Bâtiment Recherche Sud First floor - Room 1.122

https://geographie-cites.cnrs.fr/acces/

For information & registration, please email: adele.esposito@cnrs.fr

Program

6 November 2023

• 10h-10h15 Introductory remarks By Sarayut Supsook, Assistant Professor, Dean of the faculty of architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Founder of the Kudichin museum and Nathalie Lancret, Research Director, CASE
• 10h15 - 10h45 The CREMA Network and the UTAB winter/summer schools: perspectives and challenges By Adèle Esposito Andujar, CNRS Researcher, Géographie-Cités and Nathalie Lancret
• 10h45-11h15 Baan Kudichin Museum, the making of tangible from intangible heritage By Sarayut Supsook
• 11h15-11h30 Coffee break
• 11h30-12h Chinese ordinary buildings in Bangkok : revitalizations in adversity By Liwen Xu, PhD candidate, UMR AUSser (online)
• 12h-14h Lunch break
• 14h-14h30 Making the Old New: A Case Study on Upcycled Antique Furniture Design With Community By Sirintra Aursirisub, Lecturer, Chulalongkon University
• 14h30-15h The Residents of Khlong Han-Tra District, Ayutthaya: Tourism development and the Return to the Water, their Fundamental Heritage By Pramote Seemak, PhD Candidate, UMR AUSser
• 15h-15h30 Tea break
• 15h30-16hThai Traditional Architecture Conservation Through Design, Real Wood Practices, and Learning With Wood Craft Communities By Pymporn Chaiyaporn, Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University
• 16h -16h30 Bang Pho Living Lab : Community-university collaboration for Heritage and Community Conservation By Prin Jhearmaneechotechai, Assistant Professor, Chulalongkorn University
• 16h30-16h45 Discussion and concluding remarks

7 November 2023

• 10h-10h30 Archives of the Ordinary Cities in Southeast Asia: The Case Study of Chiang Mai By Pijika Pumketkao, Lecturer, Architecture School of Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB), Researcher UMR AUSser
• 10h30-11h Urbanization and heritagization in regard to UNESCO certification: perspectives from the khlong Mae Kha, Chiang Mai By Armelle Ninnin, PhD Candidate, UMR AUSser

11h-11h30 Coffee Break

• 11h30-12h Community Identity & Heritage Storytelling Through Logo and Exhibition Design ProcessBy Teema Muekthong, Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University
• 12h-13h Discussion session

13h-14h30 Lunch break

14h30-18h Field trip for team members only 

8 November 2023

Session CLOSED to the public

Roundtable discussion about the organisation of the 2024 edition of the UTAB summer school