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"The World's Experimental Facility" that Questions of the True Value of the "ICOMOS-TICCIH Cooperative Principles" New Conservation Challenges Promoted by the Japanese Government
Policy Director at Heritage Montreal
Trained in architecture and architectural conservation in Montréal, Rome and England, Dinu Bumbaru is Policy Director at Heritage Montreal, an independent civic organisation promoting the built and landscape heritage of Montreal’s metropolitan area and its development.
In ICOMOS, Dinu was Secretary General, National Committee chair, co-founder of the international committees on risk preparedness, conservation philosophy and the modern period heritage, and co-author of the joint conservation principles for industrial heritage. He went on post-disaster UNESCO and ICOMOS missions to Dubrovnik, Bam and Haiti. He assists ICOMOS and governments as an expert advisor.
He received the Order of Canada, Prix du Québec and Order of Montreal for his contribution to heritage in Canada and abroad.
---I am told that Mr. Dinu Bumbaru is an expert on World Heritage in Canada and is the key person who created the “ICOMOS-TICCIH Cooperative Principles,” a set of rules common throughout the world for the preservation of industrial heritage set by ICOMOS-TICCIH.
(For more information, see https://sangyoisankokuminkaigi.jimdo.com/世界遺産登録に向けて/ｉｃｏｍｏｓ-ｔｉｃｃｉｈ共同原則/)
Yes, that's right. The "Cooperative Principles" were put together by a collaboration of Patrick Martin of the United States, who was chairman of TICCIH, and I. I was invited to attend the TICCIH conference in Russia in 2003 when I was the Executive Director of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites). It was at the meeting that “The Nizhny Tagil Charter” was adopted, which was of great significance to TICCIH. It was at the time that an agreement was reached among the TICCIH experts, mainly from Europe, Canada, the United States, and others, to create new principles for the conservation of our industrial heritage. Mr. Martin and I will be taking a central role.
---When was this "Cooperative Principles" formally adopted?
Subsequently, an agreement was also formed at ICOMOS, which was formally adopted at the annual meeting of ICOMOS in Paris in 2011. However, it is also called the "Dublin Principle" among the parties concerned, because they were able to agree at the Advisory Committee held in Dublin, Ireland, in the previous year.
---So to speak, when did Mr. Bumbaru, who can be said to be the so-called authority for the preservation of industrial heritage, become involved in the “Heritage of Industrial Revolution of Meiji Japan”?
I have been invited to participate in this project since 2009 through two channels: one by an invitation from Yukio Nishimura, chairman of the Japan ICOMOS National Committee, and the other by my colleague, Stuart Smith, as well as other foreign experts. Dr. Nishimura and the other members of the ICOMOS Japan said that “it is very important for this project that I cooperate with them. So, I first attended a conference held in Kagoshima, and have since attended many related conferences.
However, the beginning of the project dates back to 2003. At the aforementioned TICCIH conference in Russia, I met Sir. Neil Cossons of The United Kingdom for the first time, and we discussed the possibility of cooperating with the people involved in the “Heritage of Industrial Revolution of Meiji Japan,” which at the time was already on the move to register as a World Heritage Site. This will be done by utilizing the new rules for the preservation of industrial heritage, which would later become the “ICOMOS-TICCIH Cooperative Principles.”
Former General Manager, Nagasaki Shipyard and Machinery Works, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Chairman, Fujisankei Group
Executive Managing Advisor, Fuji Television Network, Inc.
Executive Managing Advisor, Fuji Media Holdings, Inc.
Advisor, Federation of Japan Port and Airport Construction Association
(Ex. Chairman of Specialists Center of Port and Airport Engineering)
Mayor of Nagasaki City
Former Director of the Sano Tsunetami Memorial Museum (currently known as Sano Tsunetami and the Mietsu Naval Dock History Museum)
Director of NPO Association for Thinking about Satoyama
Director of National Congress of the Industrial Heritage
Honorary Chief Priest Toshinari Ueda
Former Mayor of Omuta City
Archaeologist and Heritage Conservation Specialist
A fellow of the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies
Team Member of the Industrial Project Team Office for the Promotion of World Heritage Listing under Cabinet Secretariat
Governor of Kagoshima Prefecture
Mayor of Hagi City
Mayor of Uki City, Kumamoto Prefecture
The Former Employee of Nippon Steel Corporation
An Associate Professor of the Faculty of Science and Engineering in Iwate University
Chairman of the Tourist Guide Association of Misumi West Port
President of Kuraya Narusawa Co., Ltd.
Chairman of Izunokuni City Tourism Association
Director and General Manager of Gunkanjima Concierge
Producer of the Gunkanjima Digital Museum
Owner at Tōge Chaya
Chairman: Mr. Hidenori Date
President: Mr. Masahiro Date
Proprietor, Houraikan Inn
Representative Director of Egawa Bunko non-profit incorporated foundation
The 42nd head of the Egawa Family
Democratic Party for the People (DPP) Representative for Nagasaki Prefecture
President of the NPO, Way to World Heritage Gunkanjima
Representative Director
MI Consulting Group
President of Watanabe Production Group and Honorary Chair of Watanabe Productions Co., Ltd.
Member of the House of Councillors
Governor
Kagoshima Prefecture
World Heritage Consultant
Director and Dean, The Kyushu-Asia Institute of Leadership
Representative Director, SUMIDA, Inc.
Journalist, founder of the Shimomura Mitsuko Ikikata Juku School
Representative, Rally Nippon
Chairman, Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution World Heritage Route Promotion Council Director, National Congress of Industrial Heritage
Representative Director, General Incorporated Foundation National Congress of Industrial Heritage (Advisor, Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Capital Markets Research Institute）
Mayor of Nagasaki City
Policy Director at Heritage Montreal
World Heritage Consultant
Executive Director of Kogakuin University
Heritage Architect and International Consultant
Head of Data Acquisition at The Glasgow School of Art’s School of Simulation and Visualisation
Head of Industrial Heritage, Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh
Scottish Ten Project Manager, Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh
Mayor of Izunokuni City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Pro-Provost and Chairman of Council of the Royal College of Art. Heritage advisor of Canal & River Trust for England and Wales.
Dean of Tokyo Rissho Junior College
Professor emeritus of Keio University
Mayor of Kitakyushu City
At the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee convened in Bonn, Germany, from June 28 to July 8, 2015, the decision was approved to inscribe the Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution on the World Heritage list.
At a celebratory party held to mark the occasion, some of the primary promoters of the project spoke of their joy in achieving their goal and of the trials and tribulations to getting there.
Director and Managing Executive Officer, Hanshin Expressway Company Limited
Member, Board of Directors, National Congress of Industrial Heritage
Vice-Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture
Mayor of Hagi City
Chairman, Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd.
Mayor of Omuta City
Deputy Director-General, Lifelong Learning Policy Bureau, MEXT
Former Counsellor, Cabinet Secretariat
Mayor of Kamaishi City
Member, Board of Directors, National Congress of Industrial Heritage Counselor, Shimadzu Limited
Chairman of the Consortium for the World Heritage Inscription of Modern Industrial Heritage (Kyushu-Yamaguchi) and governor of Kagoshima Prefecture (as of 2015)