Block 21 to 24 March 2024 in your calendar for the Interpret Europe conference entitled Sustainability: Challenging mindsets through heritage interpretation!

There is hardly any layer in our societal tissue that is not concerned by the serious situation that we are currently facing. Mainstream politics advocate more sustainable growth, since any solution other than growth seems unacceptable to many people. On the other hand, activists believe that people need to make a radical shift in their mindsets and lifestyles.

We believe that heritage sites offer an ideal space for provoking reflection and strengthening key competences for sustainability. At our conference, we will strive to find out how museums, monuments, parks and other heritage sites can help people to interpret heritage in a way that challenges mindsets and makes them more mindful of our common future.

The three-day workshop, located in Aachen and Ahrtal, will focus on built heritage, specifically studying the case of Nepomukbrücke in Rech. It will consist of a mixture of lectures, teamwork, and presentations of participants' outcomes related to the specific tasks announced during the workshop.