This week on November 7, Lyongo Juliana will give a lecture during the National Monument Congress 2024 (NMC2024). The theme for this year’s congress is ‘Heritage connects!?’. Lyongo will address this topic in a breakout session on how water connects heritage and architecture within the Dutch Kingdom.
Our cultural heritage can play a crucial role in how we deal with climate challenges, from the Caribbean islands to the Dutch delta. In the interactive breakout session ‘Water connects heritage within our Kingdom’, architect Lyongo Juliana and Jelmer Krom from Waterschap Rivierenland discuss how historical insights inspire us to deal with flooding and climate extremes.
About this session
“How did people do that centuries ago during climate extremes when not everything was feasible?”, Jelmer asks himself. He discusses the limits to the feasibility of Dutch water management and the importance of involving citizens in climate policy. Lyongo talks about how they deal with water management in the Caribbean, an area that is regularly confronted with weather extremes such as hurricanes. He does this using a current case in the Caribbean and uses a number of our projects as examples – such as the Green Flash House, Montaña Abou, Mangrove City Park and Mongui Maduro Library. With these examples Lyongo will show how traditional building techniques, smart landscaping and community involvement can help us today.
This session is made possible by lyongo architecture, Waterschap Rivierenland, the Restauratiefonds and the Erfgoed Academie.
About the congress
Heritage bridges the gap between the present and the past and increasingly has a social function. However, it also regularly conflicts due to the many different interests at stake or the loaded history that can be associated with heritage. How do we ensure that we streamline these interests and protect and highlight our heritage in the right way, so that it does not divide, but rather connects? Those questions are key in this year’s NMC2024 .
