CIAV NEWSLETTER 2026/60
CIAV NEWSLETTER 2026/60

INDEX
EDITORIAL
Hossam Mahdy
NEWS
2025 CIAV Annual Meeting
2025 President Report
2025 Annual Report by SG

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2025 CIAV Annual Meeting
2025 President Report
2025 Annual Report by SG
Hossam Mahdy
Fernando Vegas and Camilla Mileto
SERIES REPORT │ Heritage 2025 in Valencia
CIAV Webcafe │ At the Edge of Knowing: Reframing Melrose through Pyrovernacular Histories in 20 Sept
Recommended Conference │ Vernacular Futures: Intertemporal and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vernacular Architecture and Climate
Hossam Mahdy
President’s Report 2024
Mapping Vernacular Terrains Conference Successfully Held in University of South Australia and University of Adelaide
Supporting Heritage Resilience: Digitally Aiding the Transmission of Traditional Earth Building Crafts in Southern Morocco
Hossam Mahdy
46th Session of the World Heritage Committee in New Delhi, India, 21-31 July 2024
Africa24 Conference 2024: Conservation of Built Heritage in Africa
Preparations of ICOMOS CIAV-ICICH for 2025 Workshop
Hossam Mahdy
Vernacular Architecture in War-torn Gaza
UNESCO World Conference on Culture and Arts Education
International Day of Monuments and Sites 2024: Disasters & Conflicts
Through the Lens of the Venice Charter
Hossam Mahdy
Outcomes of the 21st General Assembly of ICOMOS
2023 CIAV Annual Meeting in Sydney
AFRICA24 Conference – Call for Abstracts
Procedures and Challenges of IDMS Ritual Celebrations in Egypt since 2015
Hossam Mahdy
Theme of IDMS 2023: HERITAGE CHANGES
IDMS 2023 | Egypt Heritage Changes: Discussing responsibility
International Seminar: Which future for Vernacular Architecture & Earthen Architecture? Porto 2023
21st Triennial General Assembly of ICOMOS, Sydney 2023
Hossam Mahdy
The future of World Heritage in challenging times enhancing resilience and sustainability
The World Heritage Convention celebrates its 50th anniversary
SERIES REPORT: Activities Successfully Held for 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention and the 40th anniversary of China’s National Famous Historical and Cultural Cities Protection System
Online international conference on “World Heritage and Urban-Rural Sustainable Development: Resilience and Innovation based on Humanity”
Hossam Mahdy
Fernando Vegas and Camilla Mileto
SERIES REPORT
Heritage 2022: International Conference on Vernacular Heritage, Culture, People and Sustainability
Preventing and Planning of Natural, Social and Anthropic Risks in the Iberian Peninsula through Risk-Terra Project
VerSus+ | Heritage for PEOPLE Project
Visit to the Traditional Architecture of Rincón de Ademuz
Hossam Mahdy
SPECIAL REPORT: International Day for Monuments and Sites
SPECIAL REPORT: Looking back on 18 April 2022 | Thank you!
International Conference Rural Architecture. The Memory Of The Country
UPCOMING: International Conference on vernacular heritage: culture, people and sustainability.
Hossam Mahdy
COP 26: the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference
2021 HeritAP Webinar on “Conserving the Hearts of Asia: Rural Heritage”
Grant Information of Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme (EWAP)
First International Blended Conference on Pandemics and Urban Form PUF 2022
Hossam Mahdy
Annual Meeting of ICOMOS CIAV 2021
44th session of the World Heritage Committee
International Conference on Earthen and Wood Vernacular Heritage and Climate Change
10th Anniversary of the 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape
Hossam Mahdy
SHAO Yong
International Day for Monuments and Sites
EPWG’s Acivities on 2021 IDMS
3DPAST Project Is Officially Available Online
Announcement of Extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee
CIAV Strategic Plan
This is the strategic plan for a new cycle for CIAV, which is characterized by many changes, challenges and opportunities. The present plan is drafted during the corona virus pandemic, the commitment by ICOMOS to place cultural heritage within endeavours to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and after the announcement by ICOMOS GA2020 of climate and ecological emergency.
(adopted on October 2nd 2018)

Index
Article 1. Statutory Framework
Article 2. Membership
Article 3. Minimum Participation Requirement
Article 4. Sanctions and Loss of Membership
Article 5. Entry into Force
Final Version (adopted by ISC ICOMOS CIAV) Ver. 06/01/2020

Index
1 Establishment
2 Aims
3 Function
4 Activities
5 Membership
6 The Bureau
7 Emerging Professionals
8 Criteria for participation
9 Triennal Reviews of the work of ISC
10 Co-operation with other bodies
11 Meetings
12 Finances
13 Accountability
14 Language
15 Secretariat
16 Dispute Settlement
17 Amendment