A team of Macao University of Tourism (UTM) students won the “Best Proposal in Technology Innovation” with their outstanding performance at the 2nd Asian Cultural Heritage Youth Forum, which was held in the East Malaysian city of Kuching last month.
The event was hosted by the China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation and Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus and organised by the Asian Fund for Cultural Heritage Conservation, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Tourism for World Heritage Sites, Fudan University’s Department of History and the Sun Yat-sen University’s School of Tourism Management.
A total of 20 teams from across Asia were invited to the forum to participate in an on-site full English presentation and defence session with their proposals on heritage conservation and valorisation.
Guided by Dr. Gai Jorayev, UTM’s team comprised five second-year students from the Culture and Heritage Management degree programme: Ruirui Cao, Fei Nie, Chenyu Liu, Zhenyu Lv and Zimeng Zhu.
Their work, “Accurate Protection and Activate Innovation proposals for Kaiping Diaolou and Villages — Protection of Cultural Heritage by Science and Technology”, was awarded the “Best Proposal in Technology Innovation”.
This proposal took the cultural heritage site of Kaiping Diaolou and surrounding villages as an example, analysed the challenges and problems faced by the current cultural heritage protection system in depth, and proposed innovative solutions for protection using modern technology at its core.
Source and Photo: UTM
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