Guanajuato, Gto., November 16, 2016.- From today until November 18, national and international experts will analyze the policies and proposals to address the needs of growth and at the same time preserve what we have; within the "International Seminar Historical Cities and Downtowns, the challenges of living and habitability."

This seminar will be developed in the auditorium "Victor Manuel Villegas" in the venue Belen of the Division of Engineering of Campus Guanajuato, organized by the University of Guanajuato and the Themed Network of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) Historical Downtowns of Mexican Cities.

To the opening ceremony attended, Dr. Maria Isabel de Jesús Téllez García, Academic Secretary of the Division of Architecture, Art and Design (DAAD), representing the Director of the Division, Dr. Francisco Javier González Compeán.

In her message, she highlighted that there was a time where the cultural forms are overwhelmed by a demanding and mercantilist globalization, the conservation becomes a central value for the elaboration of the identities, which will be the own seal of the diverse regions of the country and the planet in the upcoming years.

The program of the Master degree of Site and Monument Restoration, she said, inserts in the trend to express the referents of the sensitivity of our culture, facing the weight of imposed forms from the outside, but with which you must combine, since next to the expression of the own identities, they address the need to incorporate the best produce and processes of the world vanguard in a creative dialogue; dialogue that in this international seminar, has more importance.

On his part, M.A. Javier de la Fuente, Director of the National School of Higher Studies (ENES) of UNAM, Unit Leon, observed the importance of addressing the needs of growth and preserve what we have, since the state of Guanajuato suffers one of the most important growths in terms of industrialization and change of services.

This is, he said, a key moment for Mexico, to review the phenomenon of living and habitability from a transversal perspective, not only from architecture, but from social sciences, governance and private initiative; because facing the enormous necessity of generating employment and give opportunity to the youth, you must take care of the heritage at the same time.

Architect Arturo Balandrano, National Coordinator of Historical Monuments of INAH, asserted that in the Department of Culture there is a very large trust to sum efforts, collaborate to achieve the objectives that this themed network from CONACYT seeks and must translate in actions that generate quality of life and guarantee to transmit the heritage legacy from generation to generation.

Also present were, Dr. Claudia Gutiérrez Padilla, Academic Secretary of Campus Guanajuato, representing the Rector, Dr. Teresita de Jesús Rendón Huerta Barrera; as well as Dr. Alicia Ziccardi, Director of the University Program of Studies about the City, from UNAM.