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Hugues De Varine

Hugues de Varine is a former director of ICOM )1965-1974( and a consultant in local and community development )1975 -2013(. He is specialzed in the use of cultural and natural heritage as resources for development, through various experimental community museums projects in France, Italy, Portugal and Brazil. He published, among other titles, "La culture des autres" )1976(, "L'initiative communautaire" )1991(, "Les racines du futur" )2002(, "L'écomusée, singulier et pluriel")2017(.

François Mairesse

He is a museologist and professor of cultural economics who holds the UNESCO Chair on the study of museum diversity and its evolution, Museum Prospect, at Sorbonne University. He also teaches museology at the Ecole du Louvre. He previously directed the Musée Royal de Mariemont in Belgium )from 2002 to 2010( and chaired the International Committee of Museology of ICOM )ICOFOM(. He has published numerous articles and books in the fields of museology, cultural economics and cultural mediation.

“Museums and Environmental Education: Insights of Turkish Museums “

Ceren Karadeniz

Ceren Karadeniz is an Associate Professor at Ankara University.She prepared her Masters thesis on children museums and science centers in the context of interactive museum education. During her graduate studies, she participated in several programs as an intern and museum volunteer at Frankfurt Children Museum, Hamburg Children Museum and Miami Children Museum, USA. In 2010, she started Ankara University Fine Arts Education Doctorate Program and continued her research on museology.

In 2012, she worked as an exchange student at Goldsmiths College Cultural Studies Department in England. She completed his doctoral thesis on Museum and Cultural Diversity in 2015. In 2017, she conducted research on the new generation of bay museums in the United Arab Emirates. Karadeniz, completing the Master Program in Başkent University Museology with a thesis on Jordan Museums in 2021, continues to work on museum education, new approaches to museum studies and cultural diversity in the museum.

"Culture Can Heal "

Samuel Franco Arce

• Executive Director Casa K’ojom Cultural Rescue Center Antigua Guatemala/ •Sound Recording Engineer-Videographer •Member of ICOM DRMC, Disaster Resilient Museums Committee • Conveyor of Blue Shield Guatemala •Member of the Board of National Committee of UNESCO “Memory of the World” Program •ICCROM Trainer and Consultant on Sound and Image Collections and then bullet. First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Emergencies • Partner of Prince Claus Fund – Cultural Emergency Response Network •UNESCO Emergency Preparedness and Response Unit.

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