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Researcher

Yonca Erkan

  • Research Expertise:Between 2015-2021, I served at the Education, Awareness Raising and Training Category as a jury member. Since 2022, I am serving as the vice-president of the Adaptive Reuse and Conservation category. I have expertise on the adaptive reuse of heritage buildings and awareness raising works. Since 2015, I am the UNESCO Chair on the Management and Promotion of World Heritage Sites: New Media and Community Involvement at the Kadir Has University. I have expertise on the UNESCO programmes in specific to the 1972 Convention on the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage. Between 2011-2014 I served at the Turkish UNESCO National Commission, tangible heritage committee and acted as the culture expert of Turkey at the 38th World Heritage Committee Meeting. In 2018, I worked at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre as the focal point for the 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Landscape Approach and Coordinator of the World Heritage Cities Programme. I have expertise statutory procedures and on the implementation of the HUL Recommendation, Management Plan preparations, Nomination File preparations. While working at the WHC, I was following the Sustainable Development Goals (in specific to 11.4), therefore have expertise on the reporting procedures. My PhD has focused on the railway heritage and its impacts on the urban transformation, and I am currently coordinating H2020 MSCA_RISE Project titled “Sustainable Management of Industrial Heritage as a Resource for Urban Development” (acronym CONSIDER). Therefore, 19th century urban and architectural history is another focus area for my studies. Under this heading, management of industrial sites, adaptive reuse and transformations can be listed as research topics. So far I have curated four major public exhibitions that are the outcomes of the research projects is a special area of expertise.
  • Keywords:ARCHITECTURE, HERITAGE LANDSCAPES, HERITAGE EDUCATION, WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE, HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE, HERITAGE PRESERVATION, HERITAGE, Fine arts (incl. archaeology)
  • Disciplines:Heritage and cultural conservation, Curatorial and related studies not elsewhere classified, Other history and archaeology not elsewhere classified
  • Research techniques:Architectural survey, deterioration analysis, heritage value assessment, archival study.
  • Users of research expertise:Public institutions, academic research groups, NGOs and private institutions