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This event, staged at the V&A South Kensington in June 2025, explored the use of sound, song and storytelling as a means to create, preserve or recover important layers of understanding within built heritage sites. The event convened a panel of international artists, researchers and cultural practitioners to discuss their work in this space, including case studies from Pakistan, Iraq and Syria.
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This in-person event staged in April 2025 at the V&A South Kensington brought together Palestinian artists, cultural organisers and activists to discuss the impact of conflict on the Gazan arts and culture sector. The speakers discussed what has been lost in terms of Gaza’s art infrastructure, explored the ways Palestinian cultural practitioners are salvaging what remains, imagined liberation beyond the status quo and spoke about the future of their work in this space.
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This in-person event, which took place at the V&A South Kensington in February 2025, brought together two cultural professionals who have been working in Afghanistan for over seventeen years to discuss their work, engagement with local communities across the country, and the role heritage protection can play as an integral part of peacebuilding and reconciliation processes.
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This in-person event at the V&A South Kensington, convened by the museum’s Culture in Crisis Programme in partnership with World Monuments Fund Britain in January 2025, drew together speakers to discuss emergent risks to heritage and the announcement of the 2025 Watch. From the British Isles to North and Sub-Saharan Africa, they explored case studies from Watch lists old and new, exploring successes, challenges and some of the changes seen over the past decades – and look ahead to a new cycle of work about to begin.
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The London Festival of Architecture (LFA), the V&A’s Culture in Crisis Programme, International National Trust Organisation and World Monuments Fund were pleased to work together to organise the event ‘Future-Proofing Heritage: Sustainability and Resilience.’ This in-person event, hosted at the V&A in South Kensington, London, explored different case studies and approaches to the risks that heritage structures face. Through this event we brought together the voices of heritage preservation specialists working around the world, each embarked on projects that dealt with heritage buildings and structures at risk and what steps are being taken to preserve and sustain these important monuments to our past.