The global, participative, engagement platform for everything heritage.
What started as a task for our student interns in 2014, is now a global campaign to motivate people to engage with heritage. This�series of events is a distributed social media campaign�occurring simultaneously at cities around the world to draw attention to heritage�- and yet another way for laypersons to engage with�heritage. Experiences from across the world will be collated and amplified through�social media using the hashtag #makeheritagefun.
The prime goal of a #makeheritagefun event is to draw attention to�heritage, by creating both online buzz and offline conversations. The�events are intended to bring together people interested in heritage�and start these conversations.
The first #makeheritagefun , started in June 2015, was organized almost�simultaneously in 11 cities in Asia and Europe. Since then, it has grown profoundly�and�sees more than 100 cities across 5 continents participate.
GoUNESCO acts as a�catalyst and offers centralised support including registrations and promotion, but the events themselves are planned and managed by volunteers in these cities. These volunteers can be anyone – in the past, we have seen students, travel bloggers, heritage organizations, even World Heritage Site managers organize events. The key�aspect to note is that we do not impose�our thoughts – heritage and its interpretation is left entirely to the organizers.
It is our hope that this idea spreads further and encourages�everyone to think of heritage in a positive light.
Architecture always has the power to create a state of absoluteness, entirety, timelessness and magnificence and so does this mosque lying inside the walled city of Lahore accessed through the Delhi Gate and the famous Royal Trail that connects the Delhi Gate to the Lahore Fort as used by the Kings in their time.
As we entered, most of them who were seeing the place for the first time were slightly disappointed to see a small palace which was similar in size of a one storey building, but as we moved closer, a magnificent two storey structure revealed itself to us. Even though the palace was small, compared to the many other architectural ventures of Tipu like the Dariya Daulat Palace and Gumbaz Mausoleum at Srirangapattanam, it still had the capability to withhold our awe and attention.
