On December 11, 2022, Heritage as Placemaking team members Dr. Monalisa Maharjan, Dr. Sabin Ninglekhu, and Binita Magaiya participated in a discussion hosted by the initiative Folk Lok as part of their initiative Dāphā Calling, an annual forum for the sharing of knowledge and practice on the Kathmandu Valley's historic Dāphā music tradition. The seminar presented the team’s experiences from the Heritage as Placemaking Summer School “Urban Heritage Mining.” Key questions included, “How can a historic city like Kirtipur be a space for a new generation of learners? While researchers worldwide can make Kirtipur a laboratory for themselves, how can Kirtipur benefit from studies on their people and places?”

For more on the work organized by Folk Lok and Dāphā Calling, please see their Facebook page and listen to the podcast episode “Where does our pati stand?” with Christiane Brosius as guest speaker.