The Side Event for the 47th Session of the World Heritage Committee

On 11 July 2025, WHIPIC hosted a side event during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris, France, in collaboration with World Heritage Category II Centres, including the Africa World Heritage Fund (AWHF), the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region (WHITR-AP), the Lucio Costa Centre for Heritage Management (CLC), and the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH).

Following WHIPIC’s presentation on “World Heritage Interpretation and Regional Needs”, each Centre presented case studies of inclusive heritage interpretation from their respective regions:
• Africa: Difficult Past, Shared Futures – Interpreting Sites of Memory and Recent Conflict in Africa
• Arab States: Capacity Building and Developing Interpretation Frameworks in the Arab Region
• Asia and the Pacific: The Role of Interpretation in Integrating Tangible and Intangible Heritage: Focusing on East Asian Cases
• Latin America and the Caribbean: Community-led Development of Inclusive Heritage Presentation Media - A Case Study of the Sítio Roberto Burle Marx in Brazil

Bringing together over 130 World Heritage professionals from 39 countries, the event provided a platform for sharing inclusive approaches to heritage interpretation across diverse regional contexts.