Nominations to the 2020 World Monuments Watch are now open and will be accepted until 1 March 2019, with ‘Heritage sites of all types and from any cultural period — ancient to modern —… [are] eligible for inclusion.’
World Monuments Watch writes:
The World Monuments Watch is a global program that uses cultural heritage conservation to improve the resilience of communities, enhance social inclusion, and build new capacities in the heritage conservation field and beyond. The 2020 World Monuments Watch will include 25 sites from around the world in need of urgent action, each site telling a local story that carries global significance. Through the Watch, World Monuments Fund will partner with local stakeholders to design and implement targeted activities—including advocacy, planning, education, and conservation interventions in the historic built environment.
Nominations to the 2020 World Monuments Watch can be submitted by completing an online nomination form, which includes questions about the nominated site and the nominator’s plan for achieving tangible social benefit through heritage conservation.
Nominations will be evaluated on the following factors:
- The potential to improve the lives of communities, as described below;
- The cultural significance of the nominated site;
- The need for urgent action, or other circumstances that make action timely;
- The feasibility of the proposed approach.
Nominations to the 2020 Watch will be evaluated for their potential to affect positive change in the lives of communities. Specifically, World Monuments Fund is seeking nominations with the potential to improve resilience, enhance social inclusion, and build new capacities in the heritage conservation field and beyond:
Heritage sites of all types and from any cultural period—ancient to modern—are eligible for inclusion on the 2020 World Monuments Watch. Archaeological sites, civic buildings, commercial or leisure destinations, residences, religious or sacred buildings and sites, engineering or industrial structures, gardens, parks, cultural landscapes, and cityscapes or entire historic city centres are all eligible.
Anyone can nominate a site to the 2020 World Monuments Watch, including private individuals and representatives of civil society organizations, community groups, government agencies, educational institutions, or other entities. In addition to groups with heritage conservation as their mission, World Monuments Fund is encouraging organizations in a broad range of allied fields to submit nominations to the World Monuments Watch.
Nominations will be accepted until Friday, March 1, 2019, at 5 PM EST.
