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Cuenca Walking Tour
Starting from downtown Cuenca’s downtown, you will enjoy the most beautiful Ecuadorian city visiting the famous Rouses market, the Cuenca’s New Cathedral, Calderon Park (Central Park), the San Sebastian Plaza which is locally famous for a very interesting colonial architecture and the City Modern Art Museum. If time allows you can also enjoy a very special walk to the neighborhood of la Merced where you will find houses from the Colonial and Republican period. More…
Cuenca City Tour by Bus
Join us on a 2-2-1/2 bus tour as we visit the river side known as El Barranco. Located throughout the river Tomebamba, between the bridge of Vergel and The Ford, in their ends, and among the Calle Large, El Barranco is one of the cultural most beautiful attractions in Cuenca. This tour will enable you to see Cuenca’s colonial town on one side and the new residential homes on the other. More…
Katya Gonzalez Ripoll, Director of Heritage and Vice Minister of Culture for Colombia, Colombia
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Katya Gonzalez Ripoll has 25 years of experience of innovation in the field of urban development in the private and social sectors. As an architect and urban planner, she has been responsible for more than 500,000 square meters in projects that range from private housing, commercial and public buildings, restoration, conservation, urbanism, urban renovation and social housing. With this vast experience she has worked in the public sector as Director of Heritage and as Vice Minister of Culture in Colombia developing and implementing the program “Vigias de Patrimonio” a volunteer program for the conservation, protection and recuperation of tangible and intangible heritage. More…
John M. Whiteley, University of California, California, USA 
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Professor Whiteley has been at the University of California since 1972. His most recent co-authored books from the MIT Press are Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia, and Water, Place and Equity.
Lucía Astudillo Loor, Director of the Museum of Metals, Cuenca, Ecuador
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Lucía Astudillo Loor was born in Cuenca-Ecuador. She received her Doctorate in History from the University of Azuay. She is the Director of Museum of Metals. Her previous positions include Director of the Museum of Popular Arts and Crafts in Cuenca, and Regional Director at the National Cultural Heritage Institute. More…
Douglas Worts, Freelance Consultant, Culture and Sustainability Specialist, Toronto, Canada.
Douglas Worts is a culture & sustainability specialist. As a recently established freelance consultant, Douglas is bringing greater awareness to the museum sector of the central role that culture plays in fostering a ‘culture of sustainability’.
From 1982 until September of 2007, Douglas worked as an interpretive planner for the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto Canada, where he developed exhibitions, prepared interpretive policies, created experimental public-engagement strategies, facilitated community consultation and carried out audience research projects. More…
5-7 January 2010
University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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29 April-2 May 2009
University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
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SEB’09 will be a major opportunity for researchers in subjects related to sustainability, renewable energy technology and applications in the built environment to mix with other scientists, industrialists and stakeholders in the field. Continue reading ‘International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings’
