Key Ideas

Act, Connect, Reflect, Situate

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About the Project

Heritage is about what we value: places, buildings, objects, memories, cultures, skills or ways of life. So why can it be so hard to get actively involved in heritage decision-making?

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DIY Heritage Manifesto
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Research

The research carried out in phase 2 of the project

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Heritage activism poster
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Project news

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Synthesizer Bingo
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About the project

Welcome to the ‘How should decisions about heritage be made?’ website. The project ran between 2013-2015.

Here you can find out the project, about the processes we went through to collaboratively design the research project, what we did during our research process and about our key project ideas.

The outcomes of the ‘How should heritage decisions be made?’ are focused on ‘how to increase participation from wherever you are’. Through a research process which emphasized both learning from the know-how of the practitioners and activists in the research team and our experimental research techniques, we identified four ways of working….

Make a change from where you are
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Cross boundaries and collaborate
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See your work through other people’s eyes
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Understand your work in context
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News

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Gareth Maeer, Head of Research & Evaluation, Heritage Lottery Fund All communities are imagined. Geographic dividers help our minds to...

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By Liz Stainforth, PhD research based in the Centre for Critical Studies Museums, Galleries and Heritage, University of Leeds Over...

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The Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities Festival 2016 will take place across the UK culminating in a series...

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We’ve pulled together in this booklet both an overview of the York strand of the ‘How should heritage decisions be...

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