Happy New Year
to
all our PUSH Friends!
Recent
Events 2008
December
2008
PUSH
is pleased to announce the release of its innovative series
of site
manuals designed to assist
managers, stakeholders and local community members to put
shared heritage into action.
For more information click
here
August
28-29, 2008 - Pilot Sites Design
Workshop
Bezalel Academy for
Arts and Design, School of Architecture
For more information click
here
August 20-22, 2008 - PUSH Jordanian Site Visit
During
the course of the PUSH Jordanian Site tour a group of 55
Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian tour guides, site
managers, and heritage specialists traveled together
throughout Jordan visiting sites representing various
aspects of the region's shared heritage. The site visits
inspired discussion both at the sites, on the bus and
throughout the shared meals during the three days.
While the guests were constantly engaged in small group
discussion one large group discussion took place on the
evening of second day. The discussion was held in English
with Arabic and Hebrew translation as needed.
For more information click
here
April 11 2008
- Regional
Experts Workshop
On April 11 2008, The PUSH project's Regional
Experts Workshop was
held at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design's Department
of Architecture building in central Jerusalem .
The purpose of the workshop was to present the PUSH
project's new publication Our Shared Heritage: An Anthology of
the Region's Shared Natural and Cultural
Heritage to the
regional experts that have been involved in PUSH since its
inception. The unique publication, released in a single
Arabic, Hebrew and English format, provides a comprehensive
review of the large variety of shared natural and cultural
heritage in Jordan, the Palestinian Territories and Israel.
Furthermore, PUSH presented the six pilot sites selected to
be the focus of PUSH activities during the coming year.
Throughout the workshop, PUSH teams engaged in a discussion
with the numerous Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian
experts, gathered from a wide range of professional fields,
concerning the PUSH project's upcoming publication of site
brochures and site manuals. Professor Turner presented the
six pilot sites that PUSH will focus on in the second half
of its project.
The six sites, selected collaboratively by the three teams,
include:
"The Great Cities" of
Sabastia, Pella and Beit She'an, which share a single common
narrative;.
and
Gesher, Artas and the Jordan River at Bakoura
site of which host multiple narratives of great importance
to the peoples of the region.
For a presentation of the
chosen sites click here
For more information on
the Regional Experts Meeting click
here.