Publicomos

Réf.

44733

Type

technical report

Titre

Enabling heritage involvement: participatory models for cultural heritage

Langues

English

Auteurs

Ehrström, Margaretha / Kivilaakso, Aura / Kovanen, Kirsti / Latvala-Harvilahti, Pauliina / Vahtikari, Tanja

Éditeurs

Vahtikari, Tanja

Lieu de publication

Helsinki

Pays de publication

Finland

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS Finland

Date

2020

Pages

35 p.

ISBN

978-952-68812-7-0 [print]
978-952-68812-8-7 [PDF]

Mots-clés

theory of conservation / participation / public participation / community participation / critical studies / tangible and intangible / modelling / legislation / international conventions / management plans / monitoring / case studies

Monuments et sites

Fortress of Suomenlinna, Finland

N° Patrimoine mondial

583

Résumé en anglais

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]

URL

https://icomos.fi/wpolku/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/KYK-raportti_eng_17122020-web.pdf

Document joint

KYK-raportti_eng_17122020-web.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)