The British Council, DCMS and V&A are delighted to invite you to join us for the third session of our new interactive workshop series exploring sustainable strategies for cultural heritage protection in a post-Covid landscape.

Hosted by the V&A’s Culture in Crisis Programme, these live-streamed workshops will be held every fortnight on Thursday at 4pm (BST/UK time) over a period of 10 weeks, from 25 June to 20 August 2020.

We are inviting our audience to take part in the discussion online and contribute questions, both beforehand and throughout the interactive sessions. The workshops will be organic and responsive, aiming to stimulate debate, generate creative approaches, and identify recommendations and discussion topics for subsequent events.

The focus of this session will centre on various areas of sustainability and their possible application to cultural heritage protection post-Covid. Alongside audience participation the event will convene a panel of speakers, each looking at sustainability from different perspectives and disciplines. Areas of discussion will include; sustainability in heritage funding, sustainable project management, environmental sustainability and the role of communities in sustainable projects.

The workshop on Thursday 23 July will be facilitated by:

- Alison Tickell - Founder and CEO of Julie’s Bicycle

- Dr. Nguyen Bao Thoa - Director, Vietnam Rural Industries Research and Development Institute (VIRI)

- Nikki Locke - Senior Programme Manager, Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth

- Richard Sandford - Professor of Heritage Evidence Foresight and Policy, UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage

If you're aged 25 and under and are interested in joining the panel then we'd love to hear from you. Please contact us for more details: cultureincrisis@vam.ac.uk