Hi All,
I sent these comments to Nick earlier, but since others have done, I thought I’d share with the list too. I agree with much of what has been said this morning.
This is a fantastic idea and great to see. I’m a bit uncomfortable with the first one though –‘heritage is not about things it is about people’.
Of course I agree that heritage is about people – but I also believe it is about things, and that through our material and emotional grasp of these objects and things, we relate to people as people.
There’s a lot of research in this area of the materiality of objects and their meanings for people (which I am involved in –see my web page below), so for me, I’d rather the first article didn’t place the two things in opposition somehow.
Anyway it’s a great document and useful to have this sort of thing – to keep us discussing and sharing our thoughts and ideas on the subject.
Best wishes,
Alex
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/research/phd-student-research/AlexandraWoodall
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