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Side Event date and time : Tuesday 12 September, 13:30-15:00 (UTC +3)
Room : Historic Jeddah Room, Al Faisaliah Hotel


To showcase the Dive into Heritage project's progress and generous contributions and support of the donor, a side event is organized on 12 September 2023, during the Extended 45th session of the World Heritage Committee. The event will be an opportunity to present the project to an extended audience, invite States Parties to share their digital World Heritage data with UNESCO, enhance the project's visibility, encourage future resource mobilization efforts, and provide a platform for exchange and consultation.

The event will commence with an opening address by UNESCO alongside a representative of the Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia. This will be followed by a presentation of the project and its different outcomes. The side event’s keynote will shed light on the project’s capacity building programme on digital cultural heritage. The keynote will be followed by an expert panel discussion on “Digital Storytelling: How can digital tools support World Heritage understanding and interpretation?”. The session will conclude with a demonstration of the platform. Finally, the side event will also launch an exhibition featuring some of the project’s key results through 3D video animations and 3D printed models of World Heritage sites documented and collected through the project.

Event speakers

Suhail Mira – Site Management Historic Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Heba Aziz – UNESCO Chair on World Heritage Management and Sustainable Tourism at the German University of Technology in Oman

Ona Vileikis – ICOMOS CIPA

Sheikh Ebrahim – Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH)

Olivier Vandamme – UNOSAT

Abdulrahman Habib – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia


Organizers

UNESCO (Dive into Heritage team, WHC/ARB)

Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia

Partners

UNOSAT (online platform development)

Iconem (digital World Heritage data supplier)

Sketchfab (AR application sponsor)

Heights (Saudi company contracted for the exhibition at the event)


Agenda

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When

Tuesday, 12 September 2023
13:30-15:00

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Where
Historic Jeddah Room, Al Faisaliah Hotel