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Gareth Maeer, Head of Research & Evaluation, Heritage Lottery Fund All communities are imagined. Geographic dividers help our minds to segment – a road, a river, a mountain range – but our attachments to ‘place’ spring from the connections we all make between heritage, identity and place. Beneath all the bluster, the blizzard of competing...
By Liz Stainforth, PhD research based in the Centre for Critical Studies Museums, Galleries and Heritage, University of Leeds Over the weekend of the 24-26 June some of the My Future York team headed down to London in a minibus to take up our stall at the Utopia Fair (Somerset House). I went, along with...
The Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities Festival 2016 will take place across the UK culminating in a series of stall and workshops to be held 24 to 26 June. The Festival is part of the Somerset House’s UTOPIA 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility which commemorates the 500th anniversary of the publication...
We've pulled together in this booklet both an overview of the York strand of the 'How should heritage decisions be made?' project and the proceedings of the 'York: What has heritage ever done for us?' event ran in June 2015 as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Connected Communities Festival. We're using all...
The Heritage Decisions research team will take part in a live discussion organised by the Heritage Lottery Fund, on the subject of heritage participation on Thursday 17 September from 12.30 to 1.30pm. Live chat: heritage participation (17 September, 12.30pm) From getting your own heritage idea off the ground, to attracting others to support your new...
The Heritage Decisions team were engaged in four events as part of the Connected Communities Festival. On 20th June Rachael Turner at MadLab hosted a Heritage Hit Squad event which explored some of the issues facing Manchester's building and streetscapes at the moment and has generated follow up activity related to London Road Fire Station....
Report by Simon Bramley, MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies As strange as it sounds, I have often found myself taking simple pleasures in train journeys. Of course they operate as an enclosed vessel that transports you from one locale to another; yet at the same time, I often find the time spent contained...
What has heritage ever done for us? York 20th June 2015, 1-4pm Part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities Festival Report by Helen Graham, University of Leeds The Monty Python Life of Brian reference in the title was not lost on any of the speakers at the event – which included local...
Heritage Hit Squad 20th June, 11am-5pm Manchester Digital Laboratory Report by Naomi Roberts, MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies, University of Leeds Themes running through the conversations at the Heritage Hit Squad event – held as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Connected Communities Festival – centered around a lack of local government...
Project Press Release: 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? Drawing on innovative practice and research experiments, the Heritage Decisions team have developed a website, publications and a series of events to...