全球参展案例征集 | 提升教科文冠名地体验的建筑解决方案
本次展览将与2025年第19届威尼斯国际建筑双年展同期举行，旨在探讨“访客中心”等建筑干预措施如何在促进教科文冠名地（如世界遗产地、生物保护区、世界地质公园、创意城市等）的保护、管理与社会服务功能方面发挥作用。关于参展资格、遴选标准及申请方式的详细信息，请参见下文。所有申请材料请以英文提交。
VADEHAVSCENTRET
The definition of “Visitor Centre” within the present framework refers to any kind of physical facility integrated within site management systems to officially provide dedicated services for supporting the presentation, interpretation, access to, and sustainable visit of UNESCO designated sites. This concept includes a broad range of structures that can carry different names (such as “site museums”, “interpretation centres”, “information centres”, “community centres”, “houses”, “gateways” etc.) and have different functions and architectural features.
Visitor Centres in UNESCO designated sites can play a crucial role in the achievement of the site’s management objectives by regulating or facilitating access, contributing to education and heritage interpretation, improving tourism management, showcasing environmentally and culturally sustainable practices, fostering stewardship for heritage, and promoting social inclusion while catering to the needs and expectations of both visitors and local communities.
Site-specific architectural solutions adopted by Visitor Centres hold the potential to harness the natural, cultural, and collective ‘inherent intelligence’ of sites to sustain heritage conservation and management with a people-centred approach. In addition to showcasing excellence in design, architectural solutions for Visitor Centres in UNESCO designated sites can contribute to addressing the complexity of today’s global challenges and propose context-sensitive innovative and creative solutions for a more mindful and meaningful relationship with sites.
The exhibition will especially focus on Visitor Centres that have excelled through distinguished architectural practice in achieving the objectives of the concerned UNESCO designation systems, whether in World Heritage properties, Biosphere Reserves, or UNESCO Global Geoparks, while operating in alignment with the related operational and normative frameworks.
Building on the insights from a series of UNESCO regional workshops (https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/visitor-centres-unesco-designated-sites?hub=365) for Europe organised between 2018 and 2022, the exhibition seeks to expand the exchange of experiences at the global level by inspiring the integration of a sustainable development perspective in site management, cultivating more mindful visitors, fostering stewardship of cultural and natural heritage, and raising awareness of the role Visitor Centres play as mediators between sites, visitors, and local communities.
The present Call for Participation is open to official Visitor Centres in the context of UNESCO designated sites, notably World Heritage properties, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks.
The following categories are eligible for consideration:
New site-specific establishments: recently built Visitor Centres specially designed to serve one or more UNESCO designated site(s) and help address its/their management needs and priorities;
Converted structures: facilities that have undergone heritage conservation, restoration, rehabilitation, or adaptive reuse with the specific purpose of serving as Visitor Centres for one or more UNESCO designated site(s);
Small-scale interventions: Visitor Centres that do not have prominent architectural features, such as small-scale structures and low-budget interventions demonstrating effectiveness and innovation capacities;
Projects in the pipeline: Visitor Centres not yet operational, but whose establishment is already approved and the relevant architectural design completed.
More information on the scope and objectives of the initiative, and notably on the eligibility and selection criteria for Visitor Centres of UNESCO designated sites interested in participating in the exhibition are provided in the concept note of the Call for Participation (see section below).
Visitor Centres can apply through the online form (https://surveys.unesco.org/deep-surface), providing all the required information, including the mandatory Detailed Description accessible from the online form. Please note that the information entered online can be saved by clicking on the “Resume later” button and creating your profile (kindly ensure to save your credentials, as the system does not allow to recover them), and retrieved at a later stage by clicking on the “Load unfinished survey” button.
Only complete applications sent through this procedure and received by 20 October 2024, 23:59 (CET) will be considered.
For any query, you may contact veniceoffice@unesco.org.
Attachments:
Visitor Centres in UNESCO Designated Sites https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/visitor-centres-unesco-designated-sites?hub=365
Biennale Architettura 2025 https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/biennale-architettura-2025-title-intelligens-natural-artificial-collective
