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