Work: Workshop with children about World Heritage with the use of the educational materials provided by World Heritage Centre. Location: Location: L'viv.Terminal: L'viv bus or train station.Nearest Airport: L'viv. Leisure time: L'viv region has a lot of places of interests that is why you will not feel lack of historical places to visit: castles, monasteries, churches. L'viv itself is a beautiful city of authentic architecture, which is non-formal capital of Western Ukraine. There will an opportunity to visit many museums and other interesting places in L'viv. Accomodation and food: Accommodation: volunteers will be accommodated in a student dormitory.Food: will be provided 3 times per day.
PREAMBLE: City of Lviv is the open air museum, it historical city centre was included in the World Heritage List of UNESCO. In consequence of decadence and ignoring of architectural heritage during many years, now we are facing the problems, which were gathered in this time period. Huge amount of remembrances located in Lviv are reflecting enormous number of problems, which need to be indicated, evaluated and generalized. Monitoring of destruction problems of architecture decoration of house front elevations will give the opportunity to prepare and realize the national-level projects, which will be dedicated the preservation of unique original architecture heritage and involve governmental and non-governmental organisations. Difficult to believe – but this work has never been done yet.
WORK:
The I and II stages of this camp were successfully run in 2008-2009. During two weeks 14 volunteers made "passports" (questionnaire + pictures) for about 900 buildings which are recognized as monuments of history and architecture on national level. This year the III stage will take place – monitoring of changes to identify problems of demolition of architectural decoration of facades to take active measures to maintain the dangerous elements and objects. Volunteers will do photo fixation (taking pictures) on the central city territory – the same as it was done in 2008, evaluation of condition, problem description,documenting (written description) of building and it's problems, so later this work could be analyzed, will be put in the database of endangered places on the façade of monuments of architecture and heritage protection work will begin on the basis if this investigation. 1-2 days of the camp will be devoted to manual work at one of historical place (concrete object to be considered later)
ACCOMMODATION:
basic, in the hostel/boarding school.
LOCATION:
This camp is going to take place in Lviv (XIII c.) - the city of Lions, "cultural capital" of Western Ukraine (60 km from EU-Poland boarder), one of three «worth seeing" cities in Ukraine according to world travel guides.
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