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coordinators and organized bycoordinators : Mauro Marzo, Viviana Ferrario, Viola Bertini, Università Iuav di Venezia, Dipartimento di Culture del progettoorganized by Università Iuav di Venezia, Dipartimento di Culture del progetto Website: Sense of Past and Sense of Placecall for papersIn all its multiple meanings the word heritage refers to what we inherit from the past, both in material and immaterial sense.Some authors speak about heritage as a sense of past, meant as a form of past self-awareness, as a collective experience and as an essential dimension of a culture. Some other authors believe that the idea of heritage deals with the ability to put the contemporary human signs into an historical perspective, so developing a sense of place, that is the place’s value and meaning.Therefore, heritage can be intended as sense of past and sense of place together. The heritage’s existence itself lies in the ability to read/interpret the sense of belonging of something inherited from the past to a specific place, as well as in the shared need to preserve and deliver it to future generations.Heritage is one of the main drivers of contemporary tourism. The World Tourism Organization estimates that 40 percent of global journeys are cultural ones. The WTO itself defines cultural tourism as “a type of tourism activity in which the visitor’s essential motivation is to learn, discover, experience and consume the tangible and intangible cultural attractions/products in a tourism destination. These attractions/products relate to a set of distinctive material, intellectual, spiritual and emotional features of a society that encompasses arts and architecture, historical and cultural heritage, culinary heritage, literature, music, creative industries and the living cultures with their lifestyles, value systems, beliefs and traditions” (WTO, 2017). The term Heritage Tourism is meant to define that particular field of cultural tourism characterized by the interest in the specific heritage of a tourist destination, whether the heritage is material or immaterial, natural or cultural, minor or exceptional, already safeguarded or not.Indifferent ways, Heritage Tourism can be an important development engine and acrucial element in urban regeneration processes, but also a risk factor for theheritage and places’ preservation. Startingfrom an idea of heritage meant as sense of past and sense of place, theconference intends to reflect on Heritage Tourism. The knowledge of places andthe designing perspective, at the architectural, urban and landscape scale, areconsidered interpretative keys for reading the potentialities as well as thecritical issues linked to touristic heritage fruition. Can the architecturalproject offer new ways to interpret, read and understand heritage and heritagisationprocesses? How working on heritage in order to make it accessible withoutendangering it? What are the research tools and the designing operations weshould rely on in order to strengthen the relationships between heritage andcontext? How can the architect’s gaze contribute to enhance placescharacterized by the presence of heritage, answering to the multiple andvarious needs demanded by locals and tourists?Participantsin the conference, through theoretical contributes as well as case-studypresentations, will have the chance to discuss the forms the project may assumeat the various scales in relation with the touristic fruition and promotion ofplaces involved in heritagisation processes.