List members may be interested in the following free event being hosted by the Centre for Media & Cultural Research at Birmingham City University.
Date: 03 June 2015
Venue: Room P349, Parkside Campus, Curzon St, Birmingham, B4 7XG
Time: 16-18.00pm
Networked practices of urban intangible heritage: the changing professional roles of Dutch urban heritage practitioners.
Dr. Arno van der Hoeven
Department of Media and Communication // Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication // Erasmus University Rotterdam
This study examines the changing roles of heritage professionals by focusing on urban practices of intangible heritage. Cultural institutions and welfare organisations use practices like community exhibitions, oral histories and memory websites to collaboratively document the history of places and their communities. Many of these participatory heritage activities follow on from an increasing recognition that intangible aspects of the urban past (e.g. traditions, memories and social practices) form an essential part of the temporal experience of cities. In particular, the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage requires heritage professionals to increasingly work with local communities. Furthermore, processes of digitization afford new forms of interaction between heritage professionals and their audiences. Finally, communities and non-professionals increasingly initiate their own 'bottom-up' heritage activities.
Although these developments allow greater participation of local communities in preserving the urban past, it also challenges heritage practitioners to redefine their professional role. In a context where 'top-down' approaches to heritage are being questioned, they have to rethink how they relate to their audiences.
The focus in this project is on Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam, because innovative heritage practices are emerging in these cities. They host a wide variety of heritage organisations, which increasingly cross boundaries between institutional and non-institutional forms of intangible heritage, commercial and non-commercial preservation activities, and online and offline realms. This study therefore moves beyond an exclusive focus on established heritage institutions (i.e. museums and archives) by examining the manifold ways which in the urban past is documented through what I define as networked practices of intangible heritage. In so doing, I draw upon interviews with heritage practitioners and a qualitative content analysis on policies, annual reports and business plans of urban heritage organisations and projects.
http://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/personal/hoeven/
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