Vanicka Arora is a doctoral candidate at Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. She is an architect by training, with a specialisation in conservation of built heritage. Vanicka has worked as an independent practitioner and consultant in India for several years and has taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses in architecture, urban design and heritage management. Her doctoral research explores the reconstruction of built heritage in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal in the aftermath of the Gorkha Earthquake of 2015.
Sessions in which Vanicka Arora participates
Saturday 14 December, 2019
This paper examines the earthquake-prone Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, and the recurring cycle of destruction and reconstruction of Nepal's built fabric. The extent and nature of damage caused by the Gorkha Earthquake, not only to globally recognised monuments and sites, but to innumerable locally significant buildings and places, has intensified the growing academic and professional debates on post-disaster reconstruction of built heritage. This ...
Sessions in which Vanicka Arora attends
Friday 13 December, 2019
Launch of Heritage Communities (PUQ, 2019) edited by Myriam Joannette and Jessica Mace.https://www.puq.ca/catalogue/livres/les-communautes-patrimoniales-3790.htmlTheatrette and common area, 2nd floorRoland Wilson Building120 McCoy Circuit
Saturday 14 December, 2019
How do we manage conflicts of value, of representation, and of use to which the multitude of concepts of heritage open the door? This session seeks to understand what diverse heritages, and heritage in general, signify within (and outside of) a community, and what might be the appropriate manner of intervention in public instances.
How do we manage conflicts of value, of representation, and of use to which the multitude of concepts of heritage open the door? This session seeks to understand what diverse heritages, and heritage in general, signify within (and outside of) a community, and what might be the appropriate manner of intervention in public instances.
How can research contribute to the identification of what, in a given community or environment, constitutes heritage (whatever the name that is given to it) and what are the implications of this concept on heritage practices of conservation and valuation? This session seeks to conceive how we can research this subject, what the methods and approaches might be.
Sunday 15 December, 2019
How might we move beyond, or untangle complex colonial histories with respect to heritage practices and policies? This session seeks to envision the combination of these concepts of heritage, specifically, in examining inspiring and innovative practices.
How might public policies, under the management of witnesses of memory or collective experience, surpass the principle of exclusion that dominates current heritage practices and policies? This session seeks to envision the combination of these concepts of heritage in standardized public policies and, specifically, in examining questions of the social acceptability of the values that they promote.
This visit to the National Museum of Australia will permit the discovery of a milieu for the decision of matters of heritage, and will allow for a discussion of the challenges of the integration of multiple notions and values, and of legislative and concrete measures with respect to heritage that have been put at the forefront in the Australian capital.