The document discusses strategies and tactics for designing a regional heritage program focused on Binchester Roman town and northern borders of Roman Britain. It proposes taking an interdisciplinary, process-based approach involving academics, amateurs, communities and institutions. Specific tactics mentioned include synthetic themes of common human concern; shifting from history to historiography; project and performance-based pedagogy; social software to enable collaboration; deep mapping; located media; and developing complementary synergetic components like excavation, interpretation centers and reenactment.

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Binchester Roman town
and the northern borders - Britannia/Caledonia
designing a regional heritage program
Michael Shanks Stanfo rd University, California

2. reframing the Roman Empire

3. raising the bar on an archaeological summer school

5. wo r l d h e r i t a g e s i t e s

11. the challenges
regi on a l study - how to do c ument a region
cu l t u r al , as well as ec o no mic , enrichment and
development
academic outreach - the academy in the community
coordinating professional, amateur, and community
stakeholder interests
i n t e r- i n s t i t u t i o n a l c o l l a b o r a t i o n

12. strategy
creat e a di verse , dy namic , pro cess-bas ed ecolog y of
publicatio n/ manifestation
active alliances of institutions, agencies, associations,
c o mmunities, individuals
con n ect i n g lo cal fo c us with international s cope
ar ticulating matters of common human concern
en ab l ed thro ugh pro fessio nal exper tis e

13. t act i c
synthetic themes
focus on matters of common and pressing
human concern

14. c it i e s a n d tow n s ?

15. l o c a l s a n d n ew c o m e r s ?

16. m i l i t a r y o c c upa ti o n?

17. what became of Rome?

18. me di eva l my t h o g r ap hy
Joyous Ga rde - La ncelo t’s c astle (acc o rding to Thomas Malor y)

19. borde r l a n d s

20. t act i c
shift from histor y to
historiography
making the past

23. l e a r n i n g t h ro u g h d o i n g

24. t act i c
project and
performance-based
pedagogy
student and community initiated
“do it - don’t just tell it!”
Cocreating Cultural Heritage - a Stanford/Göteborg project,
Wa l l e n b e r g F o u n d a t i o n 2 0 0 5

25. t act i c
sociality and inclusivity

26. t act i c
active amateur involvement
particularly those typically marginalized by
professions (eg metal detector enthusiasts)

28. t act i c
We b 2 . 0 and Archive 3.0
active IT enabled
co-creation and collaboration

30. t act i c
social software
complementing sociality/inclusivity
- community building

32. t act i c
storytelling
- against narrative
and consider the potential of
digitally-enabled storytelling

34. i n c l u s i v i t y - a m a t e u r a n d c o m mu n i t y i nvo l ve m e n t

35. t act i c
deep mapping
temporal topography

38. t act i c
theater/archaeology
th e re - a r tic ul at i on of fragment s of the past as
real - t i me event
c o lla borat i on wi t h t he fi ne ar ts

39. Tri Bywy d (Three Lives ) - 1995

41. t act i c
chorography
learn from old and familiar genres

43. one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the world

44. Lordenshaws - Coquetdale

45. Lindisfarne

46. t act i c
chorography
the itinerary
Dere Street

48. Dere Street - the road north - Ad Fines - Chew Green

50. t act i c
located media
GPS enabled tagging
(eg Google Maps)
first-person peripatetic video
itinerant learning

51. t act i c
reception studies
“ Ta l e s o f t h e F r o n t i e r ”
a p r o j e c t l o o k i n g a t v i e w s o f H a d r i a n ’s Wa l l
from the 15th centur y

52. t act i c
flat management structures
networks rather than hierarchies
avoiding gatekeepers

53. t act i c
artifact life stories
rooted in quotidian detail
the “thing” as a gathering

56. t act i c
complementary synergetic
components
excavation - interpretation center - TV -
exhibition - re-enactment - analysis

59. replication and reenactment in
cyberspace

60. Roma - a community in Second Life

61. the “ Ti me Te am” @ Binchester
2009
t he most popul ar
archaeological TV program in the world

63. a new interpretation center

66. an international summer school

69. v isito rs we l come - col l ab or ation welc om e

70. mi chael shanks.o rg
mshanks. com
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