SPEAKERS BIOS
10th US/ICOMOS
International
Symposium
April 18 - 21, 2007
in San Francisco, California
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Balancing Culture,
Conservation, and
Economic Development: Heritage Tourism
in and around the Pacific Rim
Hosted by
The Presidio
Trust and
Organized by
Architectural Resources Group
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Choquequirao or the "other" Machu Picchu: Towards Sustainable Nature/Heritage Based Tourism Developments
Baggelaar, Apinya (Thailand)
Authenticity versus Commidification: Atrocity Heritage Tourism at "Death Railway" of the Bridge Over the River Kwai and Its Associations, Thailand
Apinya Baggelaar is currently a PhD candidate in Architectural Heritage Management and Tourism at Silpakorn University/Thailand and Deakin University/Australia. Ms. Baggelaar has a BA in Anthropology from Silpakorn University and a MA in Museology from Reinwardt Academia, University of Amsterdam.
Cultural Tourism in Asia and the Pacific Rim: Trends and Challenges
Graham is an Architect with post graduate qualifications in heritage conservation. He is Managing Director of a professional Heritage Management practice based in Sydney, Australia. He has worked in the field for 35 years and has lectured widely to business, heritage, professional and student groups on heritage management, conservation practice, preparing heritage sites for cultural tourism and the methodologies of heritage asset management, particularly in Asia.
Graham was the principle author of the ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Charter (1999) and the UNWTO Guidebook for Tourism Congestion Management at Natural and Cultural Sites (2005).
Graham is a member of international expert advisory panels for ICOMOS, UNESCO, UN World Tourism Organisation, the European Commission, the Archaeological Survey of India, the UNESCO World Heritage Office and the Getty Conservation Institute, based in Los Angeles.
Presenting the Story of Convict Transportation in Three Pacific Islands
Ms. Buckley is an archaeologist and heritage consultant in private practice based in Melbourne, Australia. She is a Vice-President of ICOMOS, Chair of Australia's National Cultural Heritage Forum, and a member of the Heritage Council of Victoria. She is also Chair of the Conservation Advisory Committee for the Port Arthur Historic Site and has conducted consultancies which explore the contemporary community heritage values of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural heritage places in Australia.
Dr. Anita Smith is an archaeologist with research interests in the history and heritage management in the Pacific Islands and Australia. She is an Honorary Fellow with the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia & the Pacific at Melbourne's Deakin University and Special Projects Officer for Heritage Victoria. She has conducted a number of cultural heritage projects in the Pacific Islands for UNESCO. Dr. Smith is a member of the Executive Committee of Australia ICOMOS and convenor of its World Heritage Reference Group.
Preservation by Interpretation: A visitor-centered approach to protecting heritage sites
Jane Clark
Chermayeff founded her firm to focus on visitor-centered exhibitions and
learning environments that highlight the intersection of history and nature.
An educator and exhibition developer, Jane held positions at the
Smithsonian Institution’s Traveling Exhibition Service, the National
Endowment for the Arts, and the Smithsonian’s Design Museum, where she was
the first Director of Education. With Jane Clark Chermayeff & Associates
LLC, she has developed noted expertise in interpreting heritage sites,
parks, and nature centers in Europe, Asia, and throughout the United States
and Puerto Rico.
Jane was awarded the Japan Foundation Fellowship and the Doing Art Together
Award for her contributions to arts education in New York City. An advisor
to the Hudson River Foundation, the Exploratorium, the Laurance S.
Rockefeller Preserve, and the New York State Council on the Arts, she sits
on the boards of the New York Studio School, the School Art League of New
York, and Parks & Trails New York. Jane lectures frequently on interpreting
cultural landscapes and has written, co-authored, and edited articles and
books, including “Working at Play: Informal Science Education on Museum
Playgrounds,” The Design Necessity, the Neighborhood Conservation Source
Book, and the original Kids Culture Catalogue.
The Cultural Value of La Cuesta Encantada and the Economic Impact of Hearst Castle
Nick Franco is the Superintendent of the San Luis Obispo Coast District of California State Parks. His district encompasses 11 parks including Hearst Castle, a National Historic Landmark. Hearst Castle is the former estate of William Randolph Hearst and was designed by noted architect Julia Morgan. Nick has worked for California State Parks for more than 20 years, beginning his career as a State Park Ranger at Will Rogers State Historic Park in Pacific Palisades. He has previously worked in many historic sites including five years as the Superintendent of Angel Island State Park.
He worked closely with the many partners in the San Francisco Bay area to move forward the project to restore the U. S. Immigration Station located on Angel Island, including work to complete a Cultural Landscape Report and Historic Structure Reports. He is currently involved in the development of a Cultural Landscape Report for Hearst Castle and working to develop a new interpretive framework for tours of Hearst Castle in preparation for the site’s June 2008 50th anniversary of tours to the public.
Convento or Invento: Issues of Authenticity and Heritage Tourism in Tucson, Arizona
R. Brooks Jeffery is Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona and Coordinator of its multi-disciplinary graduate program in Preservation Studies. Jeffery has spent his career documenting, interpreting and disseminating the significance of built environments throughout the world, including the Middle East, Spain, Latin America and the U.S. Southwest. His publications include Cross-Cultural Vernacular Landscapes of Southern Arizona (Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2005, co-edited with Laura Hollengreen), “From Azulejos to Zaguanes: The Islamic Legacy in the Built Environment of Hispano-America” (Journal of the Southwest, Spring/Summer 2003), A Guide to Tucson Architecture (University of Arizona Press, 2002, with Anne M. Nequette), Joesler & Murphey: An Architectural Legacy for Tucson (City of Tucson, 1994) and Yemen: A Culture of Builders (American Architectural Foundation, 1989).
Jeffery has been a principal investigator on numerous grants and contracts from local, regional and national agencies, totaling over $800,000, and in 2006 was given the “Excellence in Resource Stewardship” award from the National Park Service for his students’ work creating design guidelines at Petrified Forest National Monument. In addition to his administration, teaching and research responsibilities, Jeffery collaborates with governmental and civic agencies on preservation issues locally, regionally, and nationally while serving as a board member on the University of Arizona Historic Preservation Advisory Committee, Tucson Community Design Academy, Arizona Historic Sites Review Committee, and the Vernacular Architecture Forum. He is a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, US/ICOMOS, and associate member of the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Sustainable Rural Tourism and Local Communities in Nepal
Striking a Balance: Cultural Tourism and the Sustainable Management of Complex Heritage Sites
Chris Landorf is a registered architect, holds postgraduate qualifications in business management and facility management, and is currently completing a PhD on the sustainable management of complex heritage sites (due for completion in 2007). Her significant academic contribution to date has been through the development of an innovative research program focused on the identification of design parameters that impact on built environment usability and incorporation of this understanding into the design briefing process. This work has led to successful ARC Linkage-Project and Australian Housing Urban Research Institute grants in the field of aged care design and school canteen design.
A further area of research is the sustainable management of the built environment and specifically complex heritage sites and urban environments. Chris has been Chapter President and Council Member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, member of the Architects Board of South Australia, Chair of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, and a member of numerous National Course Recognition and Accreditation Panels. She was project architect for the Broken Hill Line of Lode Miner*s Memorial and Visitors Centre, which received the 2001 Royal Australian Institute of Architects Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design.
Heritage Tourism and Sustainable Communities: Lessons from the Everyday Cultural Landscape of Japan
Chester Liebs is Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, also Adjunct Professor of Historic Professor of Historic Preservation and Regionalism, University of New Mexico, and Professor Emeritus and founder of the Historic Preservation Program, University of Vermont.
Use of Ancient Memory as a Strategic Tool for Cultural Tourism
After receiving a BS in Architecture Design, an M.Arch (2000) in Architectural History & Planning (2002) at Sung Kyun Kwan University (Republic of Korea), Lim, Jong Hyun completed his M.S. degree in Historic Preservation (2005) at the University of Pennsylvania (U.S) and got an Anthony Nicholas Brandy Garvan Award for an Outstanding Thesis with a masters dissertation research of ‘Archaeological Site Management and Planning’. He experienced various conservation field projects as an intern in GSA (General Services Administration), NPS (National Park Service) and GCI (Getty Conservation Institute). Currently, he is working as an associate researcher with the Building Environmental Research Institute of Sung Kyun Kwan University to carry out a conservation project for a renewal of historic township in Korea.
His research interests include documentation, interpretation and assessment of built heritage. He is also planning to carry out a comparative research of ‘Urban Renewal in Historic Cities’ both in East Asia and in Europe for a potential Ph.D. study. He is recently involved in two publication projects: an English Textbook concerning “History of Korean Architecture” with Korea Foundation as an editor and chief translator, and “Documentation Tools: Illustrated Examples for Conservation” with Getty Conservation Institute as a graduate intern.
Can Authenticity and Heritage Tourism Co-Exist at Kalapaupa National Historic Park?
H. Thomas McGrath Jr., Superintendent of the Historic Preservation Training Center, has had over twenty-nine years of historic preservation experience with the National Park Service. Mr. McGrath has previously served NPS tours of duty at the Denver Service Center, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office. He is a registered architect in Maryland, Colorado and California and holds a National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Certificate issued in Washington, DC.
Tom, his wife and sons live in their historic home, Holly Hill, in Severna Park, Maryland. A 1972 Fine Arts major graduate of Middlebury College, he received a Master of Architecture Degree from the University of Colorado in 1976. In 1994, Mr. McGrath successfully completed the Office of Personnel Management - Executive Development Program. He received the Department of the Interior Meritorious Service Award in December 2000. Previous awards from the Maryland Historical Trust, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Advisory Council for Historic Preservation have recognized Mr. McGrath’s historic preservation project work. Tom’s career accomplishments were recognized by his induction to Fellowship in both the Association for Preservation Technology in 2004 and the American Institute of Architects in 2005. He is a frequent lecturer and instructor on historic preservation, craft training, and cultural resource maintenance topics.
Weishan Heritage Valley: Pre-Tourism Preservation and Conservation Planning in Yunnan, China
VINCENT L. MICHAEL is the John H. Bryan Chair in Historic Preservation at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he has been Director of the Historic Preservation Program since 1996. He is a Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chair Emeritus of the National Council for Preservation Education, and President of the Site Council for the Gaylord Building, a National Trust property and National Historic Landmark. He is Secretary of Landmarks Illinois and has served on the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council and the Oak Park Historic Preservation Commission.
A preservationist since 1983, Vincent worked on the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor for 5 years and for the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois for 8 years. He has led tours of architecture, art, geography, literature, natural and industrial history for 23 years, including trips to Ireland, Southeast Asia, and China, where he works on the preservation of the Weishan Heritage Valley in Yunnan. He recently advised preservation educators in the Ukraine at the invitation of the United States Embassy and is working with the American Institute of Architects on a similar initiative.
Vincent authored two videos on Chicago architecture, wrote for Michelin Travel Publications and has contributed to Design Issues, Future Anterior, The Encyclopedia of Chicago and has a blog at Fnewsmagazine. Vincent received a Trustee’s Award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for his doctorate, and has written a book on Prairie School architect Francis Barry Byrne.
Beyond Heritage Tourism: The Other Preservation Economics
The Essence of Place: Achieving Harmony for Economic Development and Tourism in a Heritage and Cultural Landscape
Cheryl Soon has practiced and published articles on the importance of place, historic preservation, community building and the relation to tourism. She was named a Fellow in the American Institute of City Planners in 2004 and is a member of Lambda Alpha International Economic Society and Historic Hawaii Foundation. Cheryl has a Masters degree in City Planning from Harvard University.
Cheryl held public positions in Hawaii and Massachusetts, serving as Director of Transportation and Director of Planning in Honolulu from 1994-2004. During that time she helped prepare and implement a new generation of Development Plans focusing on sustainability, preservation and smart growth principles. She assisted with revitalization efforts in Waikiki and with public land purchases to preserve legacy lands in the islands.
Cheryl has worked extensively in the field of transportation, both highways and rail. As Vice President of Frederic R. Harris from 1990-4 she worked on new investment projects for Puerto Rico, New York & New Jersey Port Authority, Boston and Honolulu. She also worked on the high speed rail project for the Northeast Corridor.
Since leaving government, Cheryl became Senior Vice President for Corporate Development of Marathon Group and is Chief Operating Officer of one of their subsidiaries.
Cheryl is completing work on a Ph.D. in City Planning from the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Her dissertation topic is “Addressing Risk and Uncertainty in Megaprojects.”
Her paper for the USICMOS conference generated from work to preserve the cultural landscape of Hanalei, Kauai, an interest which dates back twenty five years.
Van Oers, Ron (France, UNESCO World Heritage Centre)
Ron Van Oers was trained at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) as an urban planner (MSc) with additional specialization in conservation management (MTD). In 2000 he received his doctorate (PhD) on a research into the principles of Dutch Colonial Town Planning between 1600 – 1800 (published in book form). During his PhD-research he was Assistant Course Director for the international Master of Science programme Renewal and Redesign of City Areas at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft.
Since his PhD completion, he has worked full-time in UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre in Paris. In his capacity as Chief of Unit ad interim for Latin America and the Caribbean (from 2003 to 2005), he was responsible for the implementation of the 1972 World Heritage Convention in this region, advising national Governments, local communities and NGO’s in overall strategy, as well as site-specific projects, including the development of the ‘Caribbean Action Plan in World Heritage’ in 2004, with related sub-regional capacity building programme.
Currently he is Programme Specialist at the Centre, where he coordinates three thematic programmes: the World Heritage Cities Programme, the Programme on Modern Heritage, and the Programme for Small Island Developing States. Next to this, he manages the US$ 2 million Netherlands Funds-in-Trust at UNESCO. He still holds a position as Research Fellow at Delft University, and within ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) he is Voting Member for the Netherlands in the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Routes.
From a Han Cultural City to a World Heritage Site
Ms. Wang is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Design and Planning Program at the University of Colorado, School of Architecture and Planning. She has been working in the field of historic preservation in Taiwan since getting my Master’s degree in 1993. Most of her projects have involved community-based preservation of historic districts. While working in the field of historic preservation, she realized the importance of urban conservation to historical cities in developing countries if they are to continue their intrinsic culture. In addition to working on preservation projects, Ms. Wang also taught landscape design studio for five years at the landscape architecture department in Chung-Hua University, Taiwan. This enforces her enthusiasm for pursuing a higher degree to teach and to research.
Most of her research is related to historical urban landscapes. The influence of morphological process in social and spatial development on a historical environment is the core of my research. Many historical cities have disappeared gradually under the influence of economic development. Currently, tourism development is the most extreme form of economic development experienced by most heritage cities in Asia. This is the present focus of her dissertation.