ICOMOS Indigenous Heritage Working Group (IHWG)
ICOMOS Indigenous Heritage Working Group serves as an international platform for Indigenous heritage leaders to come together with non-Indigenous practitioners to identify and develop knowledge, understanding and conservation of Indigenous cultural heritage. Given the depth, range and specificity of Indigenous heritage, IHWG’s work is critical to ICOMOS fulfilling its mandate to provide guidance on the conservation of cultural heritage and to support the implementation of the World Heritage Convention.
IHWG Co-Chairs (Interim):
Xavier Forde (New Zealand)
Erica Smits (Australia)
IHWG Members:
- Diane Archibald (ISC Theory and Philosophy)
- Veronica Casanovas Gonzalez (ICORP)
- Xavier Forde (ICOMOS New Zealand)
- Shawnee Gorringe (ICOMOS Australia)
- Charles Radclyffe (ICOMOS Pasifika)
- Erica Smits (ICOMOS Australia)
- Bekeh Ukelina (ICOMOS Nigeria)
- Elena Gregoria Chai Chin Fern (ICOMOS Malaysia)
- Lance Syme (ICOMOS Australia)
- Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy (ICOMOS Australia)
Contact IHWG
If you are seeking advice from IHWG, whether as an ICOMOS member or not, please download the Communication Advice Request Form and email your request to the IHWG Secretariat at ICOMOS Australia (see address below).
ICOMOS Australia serves as the secretariat for IHWG. To contact us, please email ihwgsecretariat@icomos.org.
The IHWG is currently developing required policies and procedures. When they are finalised, the IHWG page will be updated with information and documents in accordance.