This webinar covers heritage and how communities can get involved in heritage projects. It discusses what heritage is, examples of heritage, and why heritage is an important community asset. It provides guidance on planning heritage projects, steps to avoid failure, asset transfers, and increasing community involvement. A case study on a community heritage project is presented, along with resources and further reading.
Heritage remains most valuable asset inherited by human beings and communities from nature and society. Known as built and natural , heritage needs to be preserved, conserved, valued and promoted. Promoting heritage needs understanding of its origin, fabric, structure and the context. Considering the same it needs to be protected with appropriate sensitivity and understanding. Heritage hold enormous potential in leveraging, economy, generating employment, reducing poverty and making society culturally rich and vibrant. Unfortune heritage in India is not valued and is grossly misused, abused, manipulated and commercialized. Manpower remains low and the capacity , capability and willingness to identify, manage and promote remains marginalised. India , as a nation, house enormous wealth of heritage with history spanning over 5,000 years need to identify and create capacity to preserve, promote and make value addition to its valuable heritage. It will help in not only creating awareness but will also help in promoting environment and ecology
Heritage remains most valuable asset inherited by human beings and communities from nature and society. Known as built and natural , heritage needs to be preserved, conserved, valued and promoted. Promoting heritage needs understanding of its origin, fabric, structure and the context. Considering the same it needs to be protected with appropriate sensitivity and understanding. Heritage hold enormous potential in leveraging, economy, generating employment, reducing poverty and making society culturally rich and vibrant. Unfortune heritage in India is not valued and is grossly misused, abused, manipulated and commercialized. Manpower remains low and the capacity , capability and willingness to identify, manage and promote remains marginalised. India , as a nation, house enormous wealth of heritage with history spanning over 5,000 years need to identify and create capacity to preserve, promote and make value addition to its valuable heritage. It will help in not only creating awareness but will also help in promoting environment and ecology
The majority of India’s architectural heritage and sites are unprotected. They constitute a unique civilisational legacy..This unprotected heritage embodies values of enduring relevance to contemporary Indian society.The objective of conservation is to maintain the significance of the architectural heritage or site.
Significance is constituted in both the tangible and intangible forms. The tangible heritage includes historic buildings of all periods,their setting in the historic precincts of cities and their
Relationship to the natural environment.The overarching objective for undertaking unprotected architectural heritage and sites is to establish the efficacy of conservation as a development goal.
HERITAGE MANAGEMENT AND THE EMERGING CHALLENGES IN HERITAGE PRESERVATION IN I...Arnab Gantait
here present status of heritage management in Indian context has been stated and also we have tried to find out the challenges in heritage preservation and finally have suggested to implement heritage tourism to preserve the heritages
The great challenge to museum architecture lies in providing for the often conflicting uses of the building. On one hand, the important objects in the collection must be preserved, and preservation often requires very specific environments. On the other hand, museums make parts of their collection available to the public, so the environment must be comfortable for people, enabling their movement through the space and providing for their safety.
Architectural conservation_laws and practices_authenticityJoarder Hafiz Ullah
“Antiquity”
BNBC:
Definitions of Conservation
General Guidelines for Heritage Buildings and Sites
Promote cultural continuity
Integrate development with conservation
Outstanding Universal Value
Authenticity
Aspects of Authenticity
Heritage is the identity of every respective state, and they are putting considerable efforts to preserve and protect their centuries old rich heritage. India is one of the countries possessing rich cultural and natural heritage. In this regard, the preservation of historical structures has to have an objective of safeguarding national cultural identity various policies and laws are framed for preservation, protection and proper management of the cultural heritage at the state and central level in India.
This ppt evaluates the cultural heritage in China and Spain declared by the Unesco. It explain the main mechanism used to preserved the heritage and what the China´s law discuss about the cultural property and Spanish law.
( General features)
The majority of India’s architectural heritage and sites are unprotected. They constitute a unique civilisational legacy..This unprotected heritage embodies values of enduring relevance to contemporary Indian society.The objective of conservation is to maintain the significance of the architectural heritage or site.
Significance is constituted in both the tangible and intangible forms. The tangible heritage includes historic buildings of all periods,their setting in the historic precincts of cities and their
Relationship to the natural environment.The overarching objective for undertaking unprotected architectural heritage and sites is to establish the efficacy of conservation as a development goal.
HERITAGE MANAGEMENT AND THE EMERGING CHALLENGES IN HERITAGE PRESERVATION IN I...Arnab Gantait
here present status of heritage management in Indian context has been stated and also we have tried to find out the challenges in heritage preservation and finally have suggested to implement heritage tourism to preserve the heritages
The great challenge to museum architecture lies in providing for the often conflicting uses of the building. On one hand, the important objects in the collection must be preserved, and preservation often requires very specific environments. On the other hand, museums make parts of their collection available to the public, so the environment must be comfortable for people, enabling their movement through the space and providing for their safety.
Architectural conservation_laws and practices_authenticityJoarder Hafiz Ullah
“Antiquity”
BNBC:
Definitions of Conservation
General Guidelines for Heritage Buildings and Sites
Promote cultural continuity
Integrate development with conservation
Outstanding Universal Value
Authenticity
Aspects of Authenticity
Heritage is the identity of every respective state, and they are putting considerable efforts to preserve and protect their centuries old rich heritage. India is one of the countries possessing rich cultural and natural heritage. In this regard, the preservation of historical structures has to have an objective of safeguarding national cultural identity various policies and laws are framed for preservation, protection and proper management of the cultural heritage at the state and central level in India.
This ppt evaluates the cultural heritage in China and Spain declared by the Unesco. It explain the main mechanism used to preserved the heritage and what the China´s law discuss about the cultural property and Spanish law.
( General features)
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Strategy and Options for Preserving Indian HeritageJIT KUMAR GUPTA
presentation tries to define agenda for identification, preservation, conservation and making value addition to the valuable manmade heritage in the Indian context, looking at various facets of heritage including their context in the human settlements, their planning, development and management, making it community centric , sourcing funds and making it integral part of urban planning and development process. Heritage needs to be respected, preserved and promoted by making value addition.
Connecting Collections, March 2010. Cathy Smith and Fleur Soper, Archives for...Collections Trust
Accompanying handout for the presentation by Cathy Smith, Senior Manager, Strategic Collection Development and Fleur Soper, Collections Advisor at The National Archives, given at the Connecting Collections event, 5 March 2010, BT Centre, London.
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Heritage remains muted, diluted and marginalized, in the parlance of urban planning, development and management, which has led to loss of large volume of valuable built heritage in the country over the period of time. India with history spanning over 5000 years has created enormous wealth of heritage, which unfortunately, has not been identifies and quantified. Despite having distinct advantage of being the oldest civilization on this planet earth, India as a nation sufferers from the malady of the lack of capacity, resources and willingness to conserve, preserve, and manage heritage. Haphazard and unplanned development has led to large scale misuse and abuse of the heritage. Lack of adequate capacity and willingness at the local level has led to destruction of the heritage on large scale. In- adequate availability of the qualified manpower in the domain of the heritage management has done lot of damage to all kinds of heritage available in the country. Lack of resources and low priority accorded t heritage has led to marginalization of heritage. Existing Legal framework has done more damage than good to promote the heritage. Ignoring the cultural heritage at the altar of built heritage ,has led to losing the context of intangible cultural heritage. Divorcing heritage from communities and making it a state-led program has led to non-involvement of communities. Policy framework put in place has also led to heritage losing its importance in the parlance of heritage management. Limited use of technology has also contributed to marginalization of all efforts involved in identification, mapping, conservation and preservation of heritage. It is time when all parastatal agencies have to put in its best foot forward to help achieve the objective of identification and preservation of valuable heritage before it is lost to prosperity. Nation/states need to relook at the issue of heritage in a holistic manner and evolve rational policies and program which comprehensively looks at the issue of conservation and preservation of heritage. Leveraging heritage has enormous potential in leveraging economy, generating employment, removing poverty and making human settlements smart and sustainable. For promoting planned development in urban areas, master plans/development plans prepared for human settlements should include and involve the identification of heritage and suggest options for its management. Unless and until heritage is made integral part of the planning process, India will continue to lose valuable heritage. Role of urban planning assumes importance in the context of heritage management.
Scotland – Ireland Archaeological Collaboration
On the 30th October 2014 Historic Scotland hosted a gathering at Edinburgh Castle. Over 50 archaeologists from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland gathered together with experts in funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Scotland Europa, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Resourcing Scotland’s Heritage and Creative Scotland (Creative Europe). There was also a delegate from the Isle of Man. The presentations from the day are on this slideshare.
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2. Welcome to Big Local webinar:
‘People make buildings, and
the built environment shapes
people's lives’
heritage explained
3. Introduction
We will cover the following issues:
• What is Heritage?
• Examples of Heritage
• Why Heritage is an important Community Asset
• Planning your Project
• Steps to avoid failure
• Asset Transfers
• Increasing Community Involvement
• Case Study
• Further Reading
• Resources
4. What is Heritage?
• Heritage is an integral part of the historic environment but it can be hard to define
as it is never one element, but a meshing together of several.
• Character, identity and cultural variety are built up in layers of detail over time
and it is the mixture of these layers that helps to make up the heritage of an area.
• Heritage is all the things that have shaped you and your community. Not just the
grand old buildings but wharfs, the view, ordinary housing and most important, the
people - the ones there now, as much as those who were there before.
• Your cultural heritage includes local songs and stories, paths and parks, means of
travel, occupations, recreations, everything that makes your community special .
5. Examples of heritage:
• Archaeological heritage
Locally important visible features, such as hill forts, burial mounds, moats, field systems, ridge and
furrow, and ancient village sites.
• Built heritage
Locally distinctive built heritage elements and small features, such as field barns, pumps, wells, gates
and walls, bridges, railings, milestones, architectural details, cobbles, memorials, village greens or
traditional signs.
• Customs and traditions
Historic and cultural associations with the land and activities of local people. Heritage features relating
to how people lived, worked and played, such as place names, field names, parish boundaries, open
spaces, viewpoints, rights of way of significant heritage value, including country lanes and drove
roads.
• Industrial heritage
Physical features related to locally important industries, such as chimneys, lime kilns, packhorse
trails, wagon-ways, canals, quarries, mineral pits, spoil heaps, mills, mines, smithies and coopers.
6. Why heritage is an important
community asset (1)
• A heritage project is a great way to involve your community in fun activities and inspire learning.
It's also an opportunity for volunteers to develop new skills as well as to share their experience
and knowledge.
• The historic environment is a proven source of benefit to local economies, particularly through
tourism.
• An attractive heritage environment assists in attracting external investment as well as
maintaining existing businesses of all types, not just tourism-related.
• People are very proud of their local history, but don’t always express how much they value a
place until it’s threatened.
• Because it adds character and distinctiveness to an area, heritage is a fundamental in creating a
‘sense of place’ for a community.
• Adaptive reuse of heritage buildings is an important factor in creating sustainable communities.
• Heritage places can be a potent driver for community action.
7. Why heritage is an important
community asset (2)
• Heritage buildings add value to regeneration projects, both in terms the economic and environmental
advantage of reuse over new build and in adding character to a precinct.
• Increased community values and greater social inclusion can be achieved through a focus on heritage
matters.
• The heritage places are an excellent local educational resource for people of all ages. Learning
about the history of a place is a good way of bringing communities together through a shared
understanding of the unique cultural identity heritage places give to an area.
• Areas where the heritage is understood and valued tend to be better looked after than those where
heritage items have no link with the community. Such links help to foster civic responsibility and
citizenship and contribute to everyone’s quality of life.
8. Planning your project
Before you start your project, you will be need to think about what you want to achieve and who
your project is for.
•You may already have offers of help from members of the community but what about other people
or organisations with whom you could work?
•Working in partnership with other groups and organisations is likely to bring you more success. So
creating the right partnership with a strong shared vision, a clear set of objectives and realistic
expectations is essential.
•What ever the scale of project, ensure that the project team has access to expert professional advice
on heritage and regeneration issues from the start.
•To reduce risk, seek to establish an appropriate planning policy framework for the project - reflecting
both regeneration and heritage objectives.
•Work out how much your project is likely to cost, how much grant you need.
9. Steps to success:
“A few simple steps can avoid the failure of development projects in the historic environment” - says 'Heritage
Works', a publication written by English Heritage, the British Property Federation, the Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors and Drivers Jonas. Below are some key points highlighted by the report:
• Understand the heritage assets in question
Early consultation with English Heritage and the local planning authority is crucial for all parties to gain a full
understanding of the conservation value of the asset, the project, its costs and the opportunities. Consultation
provides certainty for developers by avoiding surprise problems later in the process and helping all parties to reach
early agreement.
• Find a viable economic use
This must support the initial refurbishment, provide the owner or developer with a reasonable return on their
investment and also generate enough income for the long-term maintenance of the building.
• Pay the right price for the asset
Purchasers and owners should make sure they pay a price that reflects full knowledge of the conservation
constraints and realistic repair costs. It is vital at this stage to work with and get the advice of experienced
specialists.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/advice/advice-by-topic/urban-and-rural-regeneration/heritage-works/
10. Asset transfer
The transfer of property assets from local authority to a community organisation can be a complicated business
with all sort of legal, financial and regulatory issues.
To guide you through the land mine of assets transfer, English Heritage and a number of other organisations in
the heritage sector have joined forces to produce a guide explaining asset transfer, management of public assets
and conservation of the historic environment.
Key things to think about:
• Have unforeseen costs or unexpected price rises been planned for?
• Is sufficient business expertise available, in-house, on the management board or from external advisers?
• Have running costs been estimated for the next five to ten years?
• Will the project continue to attract community support once the initial
Guide Pillars of the Community: The transfer of local authority heritage Assets – Full guidance January 2011
http://www.communityplanning.net/pub-film/pdf/PillarsOfTheCommunity.pdf
12. Increasing community Involvement (2)
To increase community involvement in heritage issues local groups should be offering:
• Opportunities which are local and immediate
• Flexible in terms of amount of commitment required and when it is required
• Personal incentives. ‘Making a difference’ is often a secondary reason for people getting involved, people get
involved because they want to have fun, meet people or get out the house.
• Most importantly people need to be invited to get involved, and preferably by someone they know.
Civic Voice and the Heritage Alliance have produced a checklist which local heritage and community organisations
can use to strengthen links to the wider community:
http://hc.english-heritage.org.uk/content/pub/2011/health-check-local-groups.pdf
13. Case study
Ravensthorpe Community Heritage Project
The Ravensthorpe Community Heritage Project aims to promote a sense of pride and ownership amongst the
residents of Ravensthorpe.
The project is supporting local communities by bringing together people from diverse backgrounds to explore the
history of their community. There are lots of practical, creative and hands-on activities linked to the history of the
neighbourhood. People are gaining a stronger sense of belonging to their local community by taking part.
http://www.communitykirklees.org.uk/learning/ravensthorpe-community-heritage-project/
14. Further reading
Heritage Counts 2011
http://hc.english-heritage.org.uk/
Heritage Works: The Use of Historic Buildings in Regeneration
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/heritage-works/
Knowing your Place: Heritage and Community-Led Planning in the Countryside
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/knowing-your-place/knowing-your-place12.pdf
Guide Pillars of the Community: The transfer of local authority heritage Assets, January 2011
http://www.communityplanning.net/pub-film/pdf/PillarsOfTheCommunity.pdf
Community-led Spaces a Guide for Local Authorities and Community Groups
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/CABE/Resources/CABE-publications/Community-led-spaces/
Historic Environment Forum: Health Check for Local Groups
http://hc.english-heritage.org.uk/content/pub/2011/health-check-local-groups.pdf
Spaces for Everyone: the Big Local Guide to Environment
http://www.localtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/BL-Spaces-for-Everyone-v1-25A.pdf
Social Impact of Heritage-led Regeneration
http://www.ahfund.org.uk/docs/Report%20Social%20Impacts%20of%20Heritage-led%20Regeneration.pdf
15. Resources
Archival research techniques and skills - General advice on planning your research and using
archives http://arts-scheme.co.uk/
Community Archives and Heritage GroupThe Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG) aims to
monitor and inform developments in the field of Community Archives, and to act as an expert body on best
practice in this area.
http://www.communityarchives.org.uk
Archives 4 AllThe Archives 4 All website features collections from archives and community groups around
England. Archives 4.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/projects.htm/a4a/
University of East Anglia’s Research in Community Heritage Ideas Bank Project is about bringing
academics and local communities together to support one another in finding out more about community heritage.
http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/uea-research-community-heritage-ideas-bank-starting-your-idea
Community Archives and Heritage GroupThe Community Archives and Heritage Group (CAHG) aims to
monitor and inform developments in the field of Community Archives, and to act as an expert body on best
practice in this area.
http://www.communityarchives.org.uk