The follow-up project of the research Tallinn Old Town: Sustainable Management and Presentation. The aim of the project is to ensure the implementation and further development of what was achieved in the first period of cooperation between the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Port of Tallinn. A new topic is the mapping of the values of Paldiski, as the potential of Paldiski as a port city and tourist destination is still underutilized. Cooperation is also carried out with the other nearest port city and world heritage site – Suomenlinna sea fortress near Helsinki, and with Finnish higher education institutions, especially Aalto University.
The project will result in:
1. recommendations for presenting Paldiski as a tourist destination;
2. recommendations for sustainable and environmentally friendly management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the use of modern energy solutions and valuing the natural environment in the urban space;
3. proposals for maintaining the diversity of the Old Town through strategic real estate management.
Principal investigator: Riin Alatalu
Project period: 2023-2026
Financing institution: Port of Tallinn
Discover Paldiski! map application introduces the history and heritage of Paldiski. The content of the map layers focuses mainly on the built heritage, but also provides insights into the destroyed objects and environments.
In 2024, a course was held in cooperation with Aalto University, during which the Tallinn Linnahall and Suomenlinna fortifications were studied in depth. The course provided a unique opportunity to look at the topic in a more interdisciplinary way and to compare the problems of two World Heritage cities on opposite sides of the bay. The course introduced a number of international methodologies for reducing environmental impacts, supporting sustainable development and community involvement. As a practical part of the course, the possible application of the UNESCO/ ICOMOS/ICCROM Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) methodology to the analysis of the Tallinn Seavision was tested. As a result of the project, five heritage impact analyses based on different urban planning scenarios were prepared for the Linnahall.
See in the Estonian Research Information System (ETIS)