5th AHRC Connected Communities Heritage Network Symposium
We are presenting at the 5th AHRC Connected Communities Heritage Network Symposium
on 12th February 2021. Heritage themes include: Covid, Communities, Textiles, Technology and Diversity. Invitation to watch the live stream available at www.facebook.com/HeritageNetwork/live
Programme:
COVID
9.15 CAER Heritage: Reacting to Community Need in the time of Covid-19 Dr Oliver Davis, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology/Co-director CAER Heritage Project, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
9.30 What’s On(line)? UK Museum Exhibitions during the COVID Crisis, March-June 2020 Ellie King , PhD Student, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick/Oxford University Museum of Natural History
9.45 Puzzling through the pandemic – a Community Heritage Experience Judith Green, St. James Heritage and Environment Group
10.00 Online teaching and learning with digitised collections
Catherine Eagleton and Kamila Oles (University of St Andrews), Neil Curtis (University of Aberdeen), Maria Economou (University of Glasgow), Susannah Waters (Glasgow School of Art)
COMMUNITIES
10.15 The Politics of Heritage-Futures: beyond preservation integration and rejuvenation -What are the possibilities and limitations imposed when power and ownership are contested?
Elizabeth Gardiner, Doctoral Researcher and Professor Katarzyna Kosmala University of the West of Scotland
10.30 Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience: responses and recommendations
Rebecca Farley, , Judith King, and Andrew Burton (PI), School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University
10.45 Break
INTERNATIONAL
11.00 A Whole Life of a Bicycle: The Design, History and Narrative in Visa Dzīve Vienā Divritenī Exhibition Dr. Zhiyu Zhao, Beihang University, China
11.15 Preserving Chinese shadow puppetry culture through digitisation
Ken Tin-Kai Chen Associate Professor, Department of Comic Design Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan
11.30 ‘Engagement and Impact’: the challenges of translating Fiji heritage across communities Karen Jacobs, Senior Lecturer, Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia
11.45 The Earth Museum: Connecting collections, people and place to foster generations of global storytellers
Dr Janet Owen, Executive Director, The Earth Museum
12.00 Don’t touch! From hands-on to virtual – 3D access to Bristol Museum’s Japanese Netsuke Xavier Aure, Research Fellow, Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE and Kate Newnham, Senior Curator, Visual Arts, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
12.15 Preserving, Presenting and Prolonging the Life of Living Heritage: The Multivariate Pattern of the Dali Puzhen Bai People Tie-dye Museum
Shuye Zhang PhD student, History of Design, Royal College of Art
TEXTILES
12.30 Embroidering the River Lugg: an exploration of its affective importance to its community
Jackie H Morris, PhD Researcher, Manchester Metropolitan University
12.45 Stitching Traditions – Our experience of co-curating with communities
Esther Shaw. Community Participation Worker, Leicestershire County Council
1.00 Lunch
TECHNOLOGY
2.00 Surrounding with sound: augmenting the visual world with soundscapes and dialogue. Thom Corah, Senior Lecturer, De Montfort University
2.15 Reconstructing the Rose Playhouse, Dr E W Tatham, Mixed Reality Ltd
2.30 Thinking with History: Projecting London;s Industrial History using Immersive Technologies
Dr. Atif Mohammed Ghani Heritage 5G Ltd and Dr Jim Clifford Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan.
2.45 ‘Glossop Times’ Cotton Mills App: Should we have built a Website instead?
Nick Higgett, Connected Communities Heritage Network
3.00 Connecting with the crowd: creating and supporting citizen research online
Pip Willcox, Head of Research and Louise Seaward, The National Archives
3.15 Developing a CRAFTED pedagogy for engaging schools with digital cultural heritage
Jo-Anne Sunderland Bowe, Heritec, UK , Jenny Siung, Chester Beatty, Republic of Ireland and Pier Giacomo Sola, Michael Culture AISBL, Belgium
3.30 Break
3.45 Walk My City: An Innovative Digital Architectural Heritage Tour for the City of Liverpool
Jemma Street, PhD Researcher, Transformation North West doctoral programme, Department of Architecture, University of Liverpool
DIVERSITY
4.00 A Proposal For Radical Hospitality
Matilda Pye , National Outreach Curator, Royal Museums Greenwich
4.15 African Perspectives on David Livingstone
Simon Ferrigno, Belong Nottingham
4.30 Reclaiming the British country house as a site of African Caribbean heritage: The making of the co-produced film Blood Sugar Lisa Robinson (Bright Ideas Nottingham), Susanne Seymour (University of Nottingham) Shawn Sobers (University of the West of England)
4.45 Participation as an effective way to counter Authorized Heritage Discourse?
Nana Zheng (PhD Student), Faculty of Humanities｜CLUE+, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Holland
5.00 Closing words
The Programme can be found here www.heritagenetwork.dmu.ac.uk
AHRC Connected Communities
We all belong to communities – at home, in our neighbourhoods, at work, at school, through voluntary work, through online networks, and so on. Communities are vital to our lives and wellbeing. But their importance means we need to understand their changing place in our lives, their role in encouraging health, economic prosperity and creativity, their history and their future.
The AHRC is leading on Connected Communities, a cross-Council programme designed to help us understand the changing nature of communities in their historical and cultural contexts and the role of communities in sustaining and enhancing our quality of life.
The programme seeks not only to connect research on communities, but to connect communities with research, bringing together community-engaged research across a number of core themes, including community health and wellbeing, community creativity, prosperity and regeneration, community values and participation, sustainable community environments, places and spaces, and community cultures, diversity, cohesion, exclusion, and conflict.
A growing body of work under the programme is exploring the temporal dimension to communities, while other clusters of projects are exploring issues such as cultural value in community contexts and ‘community and performance’. Another strand of research is exploring the potential for arts and humanities to support approaches to engagement with communities to active participants in the research process, through the creative arts and media, narratives, crafts and by enhancing consideration of issues such as ethics, power and voice.