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Enabling heritage involvement: participatory models for cultural heritage

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Ehrström, Margaretha, Kivilaakso, Aura, Kovanen, Kirsti, Latvala-Harvilahti, Pauliina and Vahtikari, Tanja (2020) Enabling heritage involvement: participatory models for cultural heritage. Technical Report. ICOMOS Finland, Helsinki, 35p. ISBN 978-952-68812-7-0 [print] & 978-952-68812-8-7 [PDF]. [Book]

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The perception of what constitutes cultural heritage has changed significantly over the last few decades, both among heritage professionals working in the field and within the research community. Our understanding of heritage has broadened significantly – cultural heritage today can include almost anything that people value and want to cherish as such. The division between tangible and intangible heritage, previously considered clear cut, has also narrowed. At the core of cultural heritage work is valuation, which always takes place in the present. Cultural heritage should therefore be seen as a process of meaning-making and a set of relationships with objects, places and practices of the past, as determined by the social, cultural and economic contexts of the time. The Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Faro Convention, 2005) places cultural heritage communities at the centre of concern. Heritage researchers, too, have already for some time been discussing the various issues regarding communities, as well as participation in and the senses of belonging to cultural heritage. The two-part publication at hand aims to outline the issues of participation in cultural heritage in broad terms. In the opening article, Tanja Vahtikari, Aura Kivilaakso and Pauliina Latvala-Harvilahti discuss the issue of participation in cultural heritage from the perspective of critical heritage studies. They highlight the need to understand cultural heritage comprehensively, to recognize the multivoiced character of heritage experiences, and to identify in a diverse way the factors that enable the participation of individuals and groups. In the second part of the report, Margaretha Ehrström and Kirsti Kovanen – drawing on the work carried out by ICOMOS Finland – outline a new type of stage-by-stage operational model for valuating and supporting participation in cultural heritage. The template process encourages everyone to work for the benefit of cultural heritage. The work has been carried out in close cooperation with the Governing Body of Suomenlinna and its staff and simultaneously with the preparation of Suomenlinna’s new Management Plan. The international seminar “Interpreting Shared Heritage Through Time”, organized by ICOMOS Finland and the Governing Body of Suomenlinna in June 2018, provided an important foundation for the work. ICOMOS Finland sincerely thank the people of Suomenlinna for their pioneering work and for sharing their experiences for the benefit of the entire cultural heritage field, as well as the wider group of stakeholders in Finland who have shared their ideas and thoughts on heritage participation. We hope that the present report will generate ideas regarding heritage participation and the outlining of new operational approaches and models. [Preface by Tanja Vahtikari]

Item Type: Book (Technical Report)
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Ehrström, Margaretha
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Kivilaakso, Aura
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Kovanen, Kirsti
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Latvala-Harvilahti, Pauliina
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Vahtikari, Tanja
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Vahtikari, Tanja
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Languages: English
Keywords: theory of conservation; participation; public participation; community participation; critical studies; tangible and intangible; modelling; legislation; international conventions; management plans; monitoring; case studies
Subjects: A. THEORETICAL AND GENERAL ASPECTS > 12. Theory of conservation
E. CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION > 07. Management
E. CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION > 08. Monitoring
E. CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION > 09. Social and economic aspects of conservation
K. LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES > 03. National/Regional legislations
K. LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES > 06. Doctrinal texts, conventions and charters
L. PRESENTATION AND TRANSMISSION OF HERITAGE > 04. Public awareness
L. PRESENTATION AND TRANSMISSION OF HERITAGE > 10. Other
Name of monument, town, site, museum: Fortress of Suomenlinna, Finland
UNESCO WHC Number: 583
National Committee: Finland
Number of Pages: 35
ISBN: 978-952-68812-7-0 [print] & 978-952-68812-8-7 [PDF]
Depositing User: ICOMOS DocCentre
Date Deposited: 23 Aug 2024 15:11
Last Modified: 23 Aug 2024 15:11
URI: https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/3332

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