Valentina Lapiccirella Zingari

Member UNESCO global network of Facilitators, - Capacity Building Strategy of the Convention for the safeguarding of ICH

Since the 2000s, she develops ethnographical and community-based approaches in the process of heritage-making, in the fields of local museums, oral history, audio-visual documentation, the social uses of sound archives, and the Intangible Cultural Heritage safeguarding. Since 2017, she is UNESCO facilitator for the implementation of the 2003 Convention.

Since 2009 (for the Italian Society for Museum and Heritage Anthropology – SIMBDEA) she follows the processes related to the implementation of the UNESCO ICH Convention and the cooperation between the ICH accredited NGOs in the ICH NGO Forum. In this context, she is developing innovative approaches to the ICH safeguarding, improving and activating processes, projects and dialogues at different levels: from the local grassroots to the national and multinational. She is actually co-coordinating the Working Group Research of the Forum. www.ichngoforum.org

For Associazione Giochi Antichi (AGA) and the accredited NGO European Traditional Games and Sports Association (ETSGA), she is coordinating the UNESCO multinational safeguarding process of “Tocatì, a shared programme for the safeguarding of Traditional Games and Sports” as an inspiring laboratory for the safeguarding of ICH. This project aims at using the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices as a tool to safeguard TSG by impacting cultural policies and strengthening community participation in the arena of heritage regimes.

Among her publications:

Valentina Lapiccirella Zingari, William Long, and Benedetta Ubertazzi, Laws on the Use of the Public Space for Heritage Purposes in Lucas Lixinski and Lucy Morisset, The Routledge Handbook on Heritage and the Law, Routledge 2024
Francesca Berti, Valentina Lapiccirella Zingari, Between similarities and cultural diversities: intangible cultural heritage meets intercultural education. The example of Traditional Sports and Games. Proceedings “Scuola Democratica – First International Conference” – Cagliari 6-8 June 2019 https://www.scuolademocratica.it/volumi/
Lapiccirella Zingari, Valentina, 2015, Il paradigma dell’intangible cultural heritage, In M. Salvati- L.Sciolla, a cura, L’Italia e le sue regioni, Roma, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Treccani, Vol. III, Culture (a cura di Pietro Clemente), pp. 189-203.
Lapiccirella Zingari, Valentina, 2015, Patrimoni vitali nel paesaggio. Note sull’immaterialità del patrimonio culturale alla luce delle Convenzioni internazionali. In Lauso Zagato, Marilena Vecco (a cura di) Citizens of Europe. Culture e diritti. Edizioni di Cà Foscari, Venezia. http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/col/dbc/1/27/SapereEuropa/2 . Pp. 425- 457.