This three-day course (presented online over 6 mornings) is aimed at guiding professionals and lay people who need to engage with the heritage and local planning authorities; and it is designed to introduce course participants to the history and theory of architectural and urban conservation and to uncover the operation of those ideas in current conservation practice in South Africa. The course aims to introduce and develop the participants’ knowledge of the principles and methods of sound conservation practice. 

The course will benefit all who are involved in conservation practice and heritage management and others involved or interested in the regulation of development. This includes architects, planners, heritage practitioners of all disciplines (archaeologists, historians, etc), heritage managers or administrators and NGO-activists. The course is widely applicable and designed to satisfy the multidisciplinary nature of conservation practice and heritage resource management.

• Dates: 11 - 14 and 17 - 18 March 2025
• Time: 09h00 - 13h00 (6 mornings)
• Optional Exam: 9 Apr 2025; 15h30 - 17h00
• Course fee: R9 900
• Find out more here or contact us via ebe-cpd@uct.ac.za.