Challenges of managing cultural heritage in Morocco in light of the cultural and creative industries
The Tuesday Talk program devoted an episode to the challenges of managing cultural heritage in Morocco in light of the cultural and creative industries. During this episode, Iman Lahreish, project manager at the Policy Center for the New South, hosted Ahmed Skounti, research professor at the National Institute of Archeology and Heritage, on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. At 5:30 pm.
This episode came to confirm that Morocco is rich in cultural heritage, which made it occupy the highest ranks at the African level in terms of the number of cultural records on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which enabled Morocco to launch a set of projects and framework initiatives that are supported nationally and internationally. Despite this positive dynamism that made it possible to identify many elements of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, we wonder about the possibility of transforming this heritage into tangible wealth, as well as the mechanisms of managing and valuing it so that it joins the engines of development.
During this episode, Ahmed Sconti answered a number of questions:
Whereas, despite the progress that has been achieved, there are many weaknesses that impede the exploitation of all the potentials of the national cultural heritage. Is there a comprehensive vision for the patterns of heritage management, its governance methods, and its financing pathways? How can the dynamism of the concerned institutions and procedural means of action be enhanced to serve the cultural heritage so that it is not limited to the consumption folklore character that would reduce the cultural impact on society and break the chain of transmission of this ?heritage between generations
Then, considering the National Institute of Archeology and Heritage as a reference in the field of training in the professions of cultural heritage, what is the academic offer that the institute offers to young people in order to face the challenges of the labor market, especially in a sector that still suffers from a lack of resources, ?whether financial or technical, compared to other sectors
Likewise, given the contribution of technologies, media, and digital contents to the valorization of cultural heritage, we see the emergence of the uses of artificial intelligence at the creative level, and we wonder about the extent to which these dimensions are taken as mechanisms for valuing cultural heritage, and where are their limits, given that heritage is very related to humans in their way of living, behavior, expression, adaptability, and ?transferability. Taking good care of
Finally, how does the cultural heritage contribute to strengthening the soft power of Morocco externally and the contribution of its cultural offerings in an integrated and integrated manner to the adoption of a cultural development model that is included within Finally, how does the cultural heritage contribute to strengthening the soft power of Morocco externally and the contribution of its cultural offerings in an integrated and integrated manner to the adoption of a cultural development model that is included within ?the models of the cultural and creative industries
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