Sustainable Heritage Management Foundation Course
Module 5: Heritage Education and Interpretation (HED)
Led by: Ahmedabad University
Aim: Ensuring that local stakeholders, visitors, decision-makers and the wider public are aware of heritage properties, their purpose and values, and how they are governed and managed.
This module will begin on 5th February 2021.
I. INTRODUCTION AND MODULE OBJECTIVES
The Sustainable Heritage Management Foundation Course is introduced by UNESCO Bangkok in cooperation with Think City Institute and the Asian Academy for Heritage Management. It focuses on the ‘Core Competencies’ defined under the new “Competence Framework for Cultural Heritage Management.” Participants are expected to develop capacities to respond intelligently and effectively to the real-world demands in sustainable heritage management.
This module will cover the topic of Heritage Education and Interpretation (HED) as one of the core competencies identified under UNESCO’s recently published Competence Framework for Sustainable Development.
Module Objective: Ensuring that local stakeholders, visitors, decision-makers and the wider public are aware of heritage sites, their purpose and values, and how they are governed and managed.
Module learning outcomes:
- Appraise the importance and concepts applicable in heritage education and interpretation, as a key aspect of sustainable heritage management.
- Apply pedagogical and interpretive techniques to prepare educational and interpretation materials as relevant to convey the heritage values and management processes.
- Promote inclusion of diversity and application of technology in educational and interpretive practices in sites management.
II. TEACHING TEAM
Dr. Neel Kamal Chapagain
Associate Professor and Director
Centre for Heritage Management Ahmedabad University
E-mail: neel.kamal@ahduni.edu.in
Dr. Ioannis Poulios
Associate Professor
Centre for Heritage Management Ahmedabad University
E-mail: ioannis.poulios@ahduni.edu.in
Dr. Ioannis Poulios is Associate Professor at the Centre for Heritage Management, Ahmedabad University. Ioannis conducted PhD research in heritage management, tourism and sustainable development at University College London, and attended MBA electives in business strategy and management at London Business School.
He has taught at the Hellenic Open University and at the UNESCO annual School on ‘Sustainable Energy Governance in World Heritage Sites’, and has been invited to present at various universities and conferences in Europe and Asia.
He provides consultancy services to international organization ICCROM, national and local organizations and private companies on living heritage, business and sustainable development, and on reconciling development/energy plants to archaeological sites and local communities.
He has published a series of papers, edited books, and authored the book ‘The Past in the Present: A Living Heritage Approach – Meteora, Greece’ (open access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bak). His paper ‘Discussing Strategy in Heritage Conservation: a Living Heritage Approach as an Example of Strategic Innovation’ was selected as the Outstanding Paper in the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. He was also invited –two professionals internationally– to review Nara+20 Document: paper ‘Gazing at the ‘Blue Ocean’, and Tapping into the Mental Models of Conservation: Reflections on the Nara+20 Document’.
Ioannis serves as the Vice President of the A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholars Association.
Dr Aditya Prakash Kanth
Assistant Professor and Programme Chair
Centre for Heritage Management
E-mail: aditya.kanth@ahduni.edu.in
Dr. Aditya Kanth is an Assistant Professor and Programme Chair at the Centre for Heritage Management at Ahmedabad University. His area of research is the scientific characterization of art and archaeological objects and development of conservation methodologies. He teaches courses on Heritage Documentation, Conservation and Preservation Science, Environment and Climate Change, etc. at the University. He has served National Museum, New Delhi as senior conservator prior to joining the university. He has also worked on various conservation and condition assessment projects across India. He has obtained his Master’s and PhD degree in Art Conservation from National Museum Institute, New Delhi. He has received training in art conservation from Tate Gallery London, University of Applied Arts Vienna, on national and international scholarships. He has been invited to deliver lectures in various universities and conservation laboratories across India. He has published in national and international peer reviewed journals. His research publications can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8s6mAr8AAAAJ&hl=en.
Vijay Ramchandani
Senior Executive
Centre for Heritage Management Ahmedabad University
PhD Student, Central European University
E-mail: vijay.ramchandani@ahduni.edu.in
Vijay Ramchandani is Senior Executive (Academics and Research Projects) at the Centre for Heritage Management, Ahmedabad University. He teaches an undergraduate elective Heritage Concepts & Practices and facilitates the courses including Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Practicum and Field Immersion for students of Master of Heritage Management programme at the University. He is coordinator of the annual International Conference on Heritage Management Education and Practice, and the Assistant Editor of Journal of Heritage Management.
Vijay comes with a background of working with the development sector and community-driven heritage management initiatives. He worked with Indicorps, a US-based non-profit in Ahmedabad and ran a group Volunteer Ahmedabad to promote the spirit of volunteerism and civic responsibility amongst the youth of the city. His areas of interest include Critical Heritage Studies, Heritage Education and Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
He is a PhD candidate at Central European University, Vienna. His topic is related to examining the grassroots initiatives in western India to explore the relationship between prevalent heritage discourse and desired sustainable development.
III. MODULE FORMAT
The Module format is divided into the following:
- Self-learning component
- Interactive tutorial sessions
The self-learning components consist of lecture videos, curated readings and quizzes that are accessible via Think City Institute website. Participants must engage with these materials and complete the tasks required at their own time and pace before attending the corresponding interactive tutorial sessions.
The interactive tutorial sessions will be real-time online sessions that will take place on the specified dates and times (please refer to the detailed course schedule in the following section). These sessions will recap the content from the corresponding self-learning component, discuss the participants’ exercises, and reinforce the core concepts of the Module.
This Module explores applicable concepts and techniques related to heritage education and interpretation for the participants to further their heritage practices in their home contexts. This includes reflecting on philosophical and theoretical concepts, examining relevant techniques and methodologies for heritage education and interpretation, and practicing them within the participants’ respective sites and countries.
Participants are required to take a pre-session survey before starting Session A, and undertake reflection exercises after each Sessions. The participants, during this Module, will also be asked to engage in a group activity on rethinking/redesigning heritage education and interpretation materials in a selected heritage site
Recommended readings
Theme: Communication
Fiske, J. 1990. Introduction to Communication Studies, London
Berger, A. 2010. ‘The Objects of Affection’ – Semiotics and Consumer Culture, New York.
Theme: Education
World Heritage Education Kit: https://whc.unesco.org/en/educationkit/
Heritage Education in the Social Studies, ERIC digest: https://www.ericdigests.org/pre-929/heritage.htm
Raynel Mendoza, Silvia Baldiris, Ramon Fabregat, Framework to Heritage Education Using Emerging Technologies, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 75, 2015, Pages 239-249, ISSN 1877-0509, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.12.244.
Proceedings of an international seminar on ICH and higher education (though it is focused on ICH, much of it may be applicable to heritage education in general as well, please click on pdf button to download the entire publication in the following link): https://www.unesco-ichcap.org/publications-archive/aphen-ich-international-seminar-on-ich-pedagogy-in-higher-education/
Heritage education through fine art: Potočnik, R. 2017, Effective approaches to heritage education: Raising awareness through fine art practice, International Journal of Education through Art 13(3):285-294: https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/245/6/062002.
Cody, Jeff, and Kecia Fong. 2007. “Built Heritage Conservation Education.” Built Environment 33 (3): 265–74. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.33.3.265.
Theme: Interpretation
Charleston Declaration on Heritage Interpretation: https://usicomos.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2005-USICOMOS-International-Symposium-Charleston-Declaration.pdf
Freiburg Declaration on Heritage Interpretation: http://www.interpret-europe.net/fileadmin/Documents/publications/Fbg-declaration-web.pdf
Silberman, Neil; Process Not Product: The ICOMOS Ename Charter (2008) and the Practice of Heritage Stewardship, available at https://www.nps.gov/CRMjournal/Summer2009/view.html
Shalaginova, Ethical Principles of Heritage Presentation for World Heritage Sites: http://openarchive.icomos.org/86/1/77-M4nS-252.pdf
Thorsten Ludgwig; Basic Interpretive Skills; http://www.interp.de/dokumente/topas_course_manual.pdf
Sense of Place: An Interpretive Planning Handbook: https://web.archive.org/web/20140708084054/http://www.jamescarter.cc/files/place.PDF
Writing Gallery Texts Guideline from V&A Museum UK
EU ‘Intangible Treasures – Capturing the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Learning the Rare Know-How of Living Human Treasures’ Project, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/600676/results
Continenza, Romolo, Fabio Redi, and Ilaria Trizio. 2017. “Heritage Interpretation: A Tool for Conservation, Protection and Management of Environmental and Cultural Heritage.” Scires-It 7 (1): 39–44. https://doi.org/10.2423/i22394303v7n1p39.
Freeman, Tilden; 1957. Interpreting our heritage: principles and practices for visitor services in parks, museums, and historic places. Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Beck, L, Cable,T. (1998) Interpretation for the 21st Century: Fifteen guiding principles for interpreting nature and culture. Sagamore Publishing, ISBN 1-57167-133-1
McManamon, F.P., 2000. Archaeological messages and messengers. Public Archaeology, 1(1), 5–20
Neil A. Silberman (2012): Heritage interpretation and human rights: documenting diversity, expressing identity, or establishing universal principles?, International Journal of Heritage Studies, DOI:10.1080/13527258.2012.643910
John Jameson; Cultural Heritage Interpretation, in Encyclopedia of Global Archaoelogy, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2
Avrami, Erica, Randall Mason, Susan Macdonald & David Myers (eds.) (2019). Values in heritage management: emerging approaches and research directions, Los Angeles, California: The Getty Conservation Institute, 14-58. https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/pdf/9781606066195.pdf
de la Torre, Marta (ed.) (2002). Assessing the values of cultural heritage, Los Angeles, California: The Getty Conservation Institute. https://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/pdf/assessing.pdf
Myers, David, Stacie Nicole Smith & Gail Ostergren (eds.) (2016). Consensus building, negotiation, and conflict resolution for heritage place management, Los Angeles, California: The Getty Conservation Institute. https://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/pdf/consensus_building.pdf
The Burra Charter: the Australia ICOMOS charter for places of cultural significance (2013). http://openarchive.icomos.org/2145/2/The-Burra-Charter-2013-Adopted-31.10.2013.pdf
UNESCO (2016). The HUL Guidebook. Bad Ischl, Austria: UNESCO. http://historicurbanlandscape.com/themes/196/userfiles/download/2016/6/7/wirey5prpznidqx.pdf
Theme: Engaging and Collaborative Tools: World Café Method
(Example of application in heritage education and interpretation: Museum of Science and Industry / MOSI, Tampa, Florida, US): Brown, J., & Isaacs, D. (2005). The World Café: Shaping our futures through conversations that matter. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, p. 28-30
Theme: Designing ‘Experiences’ for the Visitors: Linking Heritage and Business
(The experience model: key concepts, and methodologies): Gilmore, J. & Pine, J. 1999. The Experience Economy: Work is Theatre & Every Business a Stage, Boston.
Theme: Conservation and Interpretation
Cody, Jeff, and Kecia Fong. 2007. “Built Heritage Conservation Education.” Built Environment 33 (3): 265–74. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.33.3.265.
Drury, Paul, and Anna McPherson. 2008. “Conservation Principles, Policies and Guidance.” English Heritage, no. April: 78.
Fitri, I., Ratna, A. Marisa, and R. Sitorus. 2020. “Challenges for Heritage Conservation and Management in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.” IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 452 (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/452/1/012047.
González Martínez, Plácido. 2017. “Built Heritage Conservation and Contemporary Urban Development: The Contribution of Architectural Practice to the Challenges of Modernisation.” Built Heritage 1 (1): 14–25. https://doi.org/10.1186/bf03545666.
Gulotta, Davide, and Lucia Toniolo. 2019. “Conservation of the Built Heritage: Pilot Site Approach to Design a Sustainable Process.” Heritage 2 (1): 797–812. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage2010052.
Hoppenbrouwers, René. 2013. “Conservation-Restoration Education and the Development of the Profession.” CeROArt, no. EGG 3. https://doi.org/10.4000/ceroart.3283.
Icomos Quebec. 2008. “ICOMOS Charter for the Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage Sites.” International Journal of Cultural Property 15 (4): 377–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0940739108080417.
Jokilehto, Jukka. 1998. “The Context of the Venice Charter (1964).” Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 2 (4): 229–33. https://doi.org/10.1179/135050398793138762.
Siguencia Avila, M. E., D. Avila Luna, and M. A. Hermida. 2019. “SURVEYING to GAUGE STAKEHOLDERS’ PARTICIPATION in URBAN HERITAGE CONSERVATION.” International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences – ISPRS Archives 42 (2/W15): 1097–1104. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W15-1097-2019.
Torre, Stefano Della. 2020. “Italian Perspective on the Planned Preventive Conservation of Architectural Heritage.” Frontiers of Architectural Research, no. xxxx. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2020.07.008.
Wang, Shusheng, Yuan Jiang, Yuqian Xu, Linjie Zhang, Xinpeng Li, and Ling Zhu. 2019. “Sustainability of Historical Heritage: The Conservation of the Xi’an City Wall.” Sustainability (Switzerland) 11 (3). https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030740.
Zivdar, Narjes, and Ameneh Karimian. 2020. “Integrative Conservation of Tehran’s Oldest Qanat by Employing Historic Urban Landscape Approach.” Urban Book Series, no. January: 207–27. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22762-3_14.
Theme: Technologies useful for Heritage Education
Bekele, Mafkereseb Kassahun, and Erik Champion. 2019. “A Comparison of Immersive Realities and Interaction Methods: Cultural Learning in Virtual Heritage.” Frontiers in Robotics and AI 6 (September): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2019.00091.
Corallo, Angelo, Marco Esposito, Mariangela Lazoi, Manuela Marra, and Mariangela Sammarco. 2019. “Innovating Cultural Heritage Promotion through Virtual and Interactive Technologies.” IMEKO International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, MetroArchaeo 2017, 504–9.
Ion, Rodica-Mariana, Vasile, D.A. 2020. “Digital Restoration and Preservation of Deteriorated Mural Paintings by Advanced 3D Measurement Technologies”.Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage 2020, 207-212.
Hess, M., C. Schlieder, A. Troi, O. Huth, M. Jagfeld, J. Hindmarch, and A. Henrich. 2019. “Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation. Methods of Teaching and Learning This M.SC. Degree, Unique in Germany.” Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12240-9_7.
Koya, Kushwanth, and Gobinda Chowdhury. 2020. “Cultural Heritage Information Practices and ISchools Education for Achieving Sustainable Development.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 71 (6): 696–710. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24283.
Maye, Laura A., Dominique Bouchard, Gabriela Avram, and Luigina Ciolfi. 2017. “Supporting Cultural Heritage Professionals Adopting and Shaping Interactive Technologies in Museums.” DIS 2017 – Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 221–32. https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064753.
Ott, Michela, and Francesca Pozzi. 2011. “Towards a New Era for Cultural Heritage Education: Discussing the Role of ICT.” Computers in Human Behavior 27 (4): 1365–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.07.031.
