Dear colleagues

The GEM Manifesto..

 

..is one year old and is the work of 24 people and 3 conference sessions (GEM, MA and ICOM-CECA, all in 2012)

 

It is also a living manifesto and unlike its Communist, Anarchist, Dadaist or October Manifesto forebears, it must always move with the times and embrace new thinking and new circumstances.

 

As at the end of August 2013, it states:

 

  

1.      Our heritage is not about things - it is about people and how they relate to things

2.      Heritage encompasses all sciences, technologies, environments and the arts

3.      Heritage is essential as the cradle of everyone’s tomorrow

4.      The multiple narratives of heritage deserve respect

5.      Everyone, regardless of age, ability, creed, gender, ethnicity or orientation, has a right to know about and be at ease with heritage

6.      All interaction with our heritage involves learning

7.      We stand for all realms of learning whether experienced in cognition, attitudes, behaviours, skills, styles, values or preferences

8.      Our development of heritage learning skills and techniques is and must be a perpetual excellence.

 

Thanks to everyone over the past year who has contributed, commented, shaped and reshaped the ideas, imperatives and syntax.. I hope you recognize and can spot your input

 

We’ll doubtless raise the stakes and move it along still further this coming week and I’d be glad of your reactions at this point just before our GEM conference in Leeds.

 

Kindest regards

 

N

 

Dr Nick Winterbotham

Chair, GEM

 

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