On February 24, 2016.
Harnessing the culture and history of a region can be a powerful driver of development and progress – but protecting and restoring historic sites and artefacts continues to be challenging in unstable and vulnerable parts of the developing world.
Despite these barriers, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture works to revitalize culture and protect heritage, including projects to restore historic structures; create and rehabilitate public spaces, parks, and gardens; and support community-based projects to spur social, economic, and cultural development.
In this lecture and Q&A, Christophe Bouleau of AKTC’s Historic Cities Programme will discuss historic sites in the context of development, how AKTC works with communities, and how an integrated development approach could be beneficial in Canada. This event will not be webcasted.
Christophe Bouleau holds a graduate degree from the Department of Architecture in the Swiss Institute of Technology of Lausanne and has specialized in monument preservation at the Centre des Hautes Etudes de Chaillot in Paris. His career began in historic monuments preservation in France and Italy, and he has worked in archaeological and monument conservation projects in Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, and Egypt. Since joining AKTC’s Historic Cities Programme in 2001, he has been stationed in Cairo in charge of the Darb al-Ahmar district monuments conservation program, and contributed to architectural documentation and conservation projects in Aleppo and Damascus, Syria. Since 2008, he has been based at AKTC headquarters in Geneva as a Conservation Project Officer, overseeing conservation and architectural programmes in West Africa (earthen architecture rehabilitation) and providing technical assistance to the wider Aga Khan Development Network’s conservation and adaptive re-use projects.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Event: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Doors Open: 6:30 PM – Informal reception: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat, 199 Sussex Drive
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