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Laura Puolamäki

Project manager
Rauma Town
Participates in 1 Session
Laura Puolamäki is a PhD student in landscape research at the University of Turku. In her doctoral dissertation she studies parallel and contested cultural landscape values of local people and cultural landscape experts. The focus is on the culturally and socially sustainable landscape evaluation and conservation through shared knowledge, jointly recognized landscape values and landscape stewardship.
Puolamäki has worked in various projects in the fields of environmental education and cultural landscape at the University of Turku. Currently she is a project manager in a sustainable tourism project at Old Rauma World Heritage site, Finland.  
 

Sessions in which Laura Puolamäki participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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Sessions in which Laura Puolamäki attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Urban HeritageTourism

What does heritage change for tourism? | Le patrimoine, ça change quoi au tourisme? Ce débat veut interroger les relations entre le tourisme et le patrimoine et dépasser ainsi les idées reçues sur l'antagonisme entre le tourisme "corrupteur" et le patrimoine qui en serait la victime. Il s'agit donc de repenser le tourisme comme un réel acteur du patrimoine, de sa valorisation et de son appropriation, y compris par les populations locales. Cela présuppose, au p...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, states maintain their leading role in the mobilization of social and territorial histories, on the local scale, regions, neighbourhoods and parishes have changed. Citizens and communities too: they latch on to heritage to express an unprecedented range of belongings that no law seems to be able to take measures to contain, often to the discontent of...

18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including nationalism.  In these processes, through a variety of devices (museums, scholarly research, consumer reproduction, etc.), dualistic classifications articulate a powerful hierarchy of value and significance.  In particular, the tangible-intangible pair, given legitimacy by such international bodies as UNESCO, reproduces a selective ordering of cul...