How can digitals tools be used to preserve heritage, rebuild cities and assess heritage properties? What is the role of State Land Management in heritage preservation?

Recovery efforts can include urban planning, legal actions, and geospatial technologies like 3D documentation, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and 3D mapping of buildings to monitor and restore post-war areas. One key tool is creating a "Digital Twin," a virtual replica of a building or city. These models help manage public land, track growth, and predict future changes. They also give a clear picture of the condition of heritage sites and the impact of past and planned restoration work.

In this presentation, Prof. Dr. Fabian Thiel and Dr. Rahaf Orabi look at Aleppo as a post-war city and give an insight into digital documentation tools and social land policy. They shed light on the crucial role publicly owned land plays in rebuilding war-damaged cities and protecting cultural heritage, advocating for the Syrian government to declare State Land Management as a key step in valuing and preserving public heritage sites.

Both experts will be present at the DAFG e.V. to answer questions and discuss with the audience. 

In 2024, the presenters published a book with Springer Nature on “Reviving Aleppo - Urban, Legal and Digital Approaches for Post-War Recovery”.
The publication

• Explores Aleppo’s built environment and heritage and develops lessons and toolkits relevant to an international audience
• Unites research by local and global stakeholders, emerging and established scholars and development cooperation experts
• Combines insights from law, architecture, planning, digital tools, data management and 3D multisensory geospatial models

Reviving Aleppo – Urban, Legal and Digital Approaches for Post-War Recovery