Underground4value Radio Broadcasts

1: Underground treasures in Carinthia (AT)

Margan Kalb takes us on a journey through Carinthia (AUSTRIA) and describes the main underground sights. The main ones, which she is elaborating on, are: Obir-Tropfsteinhöhle, Eggerloch, Hemmaberg, Hüttenberg. She is geomancer and experienced all these grottos by herself and gives the audience advice what is important to know before exploring the underground treasures. 

2: Dolmen of Antelas (PT)

Chao Wang and Carmen Solano talk about the Dolmen of Antelas, an ancient building that was restored in Portugal. Both are researchers and come from different scientific fields. Chao is originally from China and now studying and working in Ireland and Carmen is from Mexico, now working in Spain, so the interdisciplinary, intercultural work field is also one of our topics. 

3: Susana Martínez-Rodríguez

We are talking with Susana about her new book “Valorización del patrimonio subterráneo y dinamización de la comunidad. El caso de La Unión “. She is the editor and collected a lot of different stories in the context of the famous flamenco festival “Cante de la Minas” in La Unión. As main story, there is the initiator’s granddaughter, which wrote one of the chapters about her work as a local artist.

4: Giuseppe Pace

Giuseppe Pace is the chair of COST action “Underground4value”. This is a project where about 200 people from more than 30 countries take part and believe in the importance of underground heritage as a resource for the local communities. Giuseppe is the one who leads the project to success and guides all the people from different disciplines, backgrounds, and experience. We talked about his favourite underground places and the future of this project.

5: Underground Treasures of Europe

This broadcast is a collection of 3 very interesting underground treasures in Europe. We talk with Shirley Cefai about the emergency underground flour mills in Malta, which were built during cold war for a possible nuclear war. Then, we interview Mia Trentin about another island in Europe: Cyprus and the specific case of Ayia Napa, where nice beaches and nightlife surround the Ayia Napa Monastery, a religious underground treasure. Finally in the third part we talk with Ernesto Marcheggiani about the underground buildings of the small city of Camerano (Italy).

6: Bahanur Nasya

This broadcast is about the COST action “Underground4value”. Bahanur Nasya shows us the different parts of this action and talks about her role as Austrian representative. She is engaged in multiple architecture projects and runs the association wonderland.

7: Underground treasures – Giuseppe Pace

The underground4value project is a European cooperation project under the COST-Action. It was selected as one of the best practice examples during this period. In this radio show we interview the coordinator Giuseppe Pace and talk with him about the main target, the outcomes and the findings. We are very happy to get insights about this cooperation project and give you an overview of underground sights in Europe.

More information and cooperation possibilities can be found here: https://underground4value.eu/
LINK: https://cba.fro.at/625600

8: Underground treasures in Romania & Bulgaria

We are live at the conference in Bucharest about underground treasures. The Cost-Action project Underground 4 Value is not only one of the best practice examples, it also incorporates such a wide knowledge of wonderful people: Florin Codrut Nemtanu, Petja Radovanova and Maria Elena Bostenaru Dan. In this interview I have 3 guests from Rumania and Bulgaria who talk to me about their underground sights and fields of experience that ranges the tourism to the IT-sector.

All about the project can be found here: https://u4v.org/en/routes
LINK: https://cba.fro.at/629081

9: Underground treasures in Turkey, Israel and France

We are exploring underground treasures in Turkey, Israel and France.
Muge Akkar Ercan is part of the underground4value team and lives in Turkey. She talks about her experience as part of the coordination team and about projects using underground places in her country. The second interview partner is Preston Perlus, he is Associate Professor at the University of Grenoble and we talk about the underground tunnel system in Paris. His tremendous knowledge about this brings new insights to all listeners. The third perspective is given from the Israelian partner Dov Winer. He is completing the trio with his insights on the treasures of Israel. One of his specialties is how to deal with different stories from different cultures. and talks about his personal history in development of the internet.

10: Cooperation between museums in Hungary and Croatia

In this cooperation culture radio broadcast, we have guest from Hungary and Croatia. We talk with Sanjin Mihelić, the Director of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, Szilvia Fábián and Szabolcs Czifra, both researchers at the Hungarian National Museum about the way how to make research interesting for tourists and go in depth about their scientific cooperations and travels. We are getting details about the „Old Kings of Europe“ exhibition in the U.S.A. and the touristic route „Iron Age“. Cooperation for them is not just a phrase, it is a lively concept.

More info about the project where the two museums cooperate you can find here: https://underground4value.eu/
LINK: https://cba.fro.at/631412