Beskrivelse
Abstract:The presentation will explore the situatedness of Évora’s site-specific characteristics by a presentation that invites participation through a workshop taking place in a carefully selected public place in the historic town. The workshop will explore how the UNESCO heritage site is valued differently by the people attending the conference by orchestrating them to subjectively registrate and interact with the place. The workshop will work as an intervention, which is a planning method that strives to move the decision-making into the public space (Oswalt et al 2013).
The workshop is inspired by research conducted in three different heritage sites in Denmark: On an old fishing harbour, in a former meatpacking district and in a former freight rail area. The research studies are conducted by the authors and they have explored a heritage management method that balances the everyday life, a top-down and bottom-up decision-making, an anthropological slow living approach along with an investigation of how heritage has different meanings for different people.
Professor Laurajane Smith states that physical heritage is intangible since it is given value by the people living in it, using it or experiencing it (Smith 2006). In the matter of architectural management, the journalist Jane Jacobs is one of the first to advocate a more democratic approach to the built environment (Jacobs 1992). These theoretical views outline the importance of local understanding and citizens involvement when dealing with the physical environment. This is interlinked with an understanding of the built environment as being more than its physical performance.
The workshop will ask the question: Can an inclusive approach work as a democratic heritage management method? Furthermore, the workshop is an exploration of the site-specific characteristics, of physical interventions as a means to include, and of the intangible nature of the seemingly physical heritage.
References in the abstract:
Smith, L., 2006, “Uses of Heritage”, published by: Routledge, Abingdon, England and New York, USA.
Jacobs, Jane 1992, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, originally published: New York: Random House, [1961], this edition published by: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, inc., New York, USA
Oswalt, P., Overmeyer, K., Misselwitz, P., 2013, “Urban Catalyst: The Power of Temporary Use” published in Berlin, Germany, DOM Publishers
| Periode | 10 maj 2023 → 12 maj 2023 |
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| Sted for afholdelse | ELIA – European League of Institutes of the Arts , Holland |
| Grad af anerkendelse | International |