REACH at “Citizen participation and the changing meaning & value of cultural heritage across Europe” Workshop

29 November 2019, Brussels

Posted on: 8 November 2019

Share

belgium-3590656_1920The 29th November, in Brussels, KIK-IRPA and FARO held a workshop titled “Citizen participation and the changing meaning & value of cultural heritage across Europe”.

The event was one of the outcomes of the Action Programme 2016-2019 related to the four main themes of the Strategic Research Agenda of the EU Joint Programming Initiative, Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI-CH).

Focus of the event was to discuss the opportunities and challenges of heritage participation and learn from examples from all across Europe.
Questions to be answered:

  • How can heritage professionals and policy makers be stimulated to include the meaning(s) people attach to heritage as an essential element in the way they handle heritage?
  • How can citizen participation engage population groups that are difficult to reach (young people, migrants…)?
  • Which best practices are available in Europe?
  • how can experiences with citizen participation in other sectors can be use in the heritage sector? what can they teach the heritage sector?

Prof. Neil Forbes, coordinator of the REACH project, contributed to the event as a speaker, presenting: “Participation, commitment and resilience: cultural heritage and community in Europe”

Read the programme and more information here.

 

Leave a Reply

Related Articles

REACH Kick-Off Meeting
On Dicember 1st and 2nd 2017, the Institut für Museumsforschung Staatliche Museen zu Berlin hosted the REACH Kick-off Meeting, organized by partner SPK. The REACH project is based on the proposition that Cultural Heritage (CH) plays an important role in contributing to social integration in Europe, and that a fuller and more detailed picture of the range, type and impact of research and participatory research methodologies, current and future, associated with these subjects, will further en...
IMP Concluding Symposium: Museums and intangible heritage: towards a third space in the heritage sec...
- How can museums avoid the trap of “freezing” intangible cultural heritage in time by integrating it into more static collections? - How may we assure that heritage practitioners and communities are sufficiently being heard in display settings? - What are the best ways to bring audiences into the museum, allowing for participatory experiences, yet avoiding the commodification of intangible heritage? These are some of the main themes faced by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Project a...
Museums and intangible heritage: towards a third space in the heritage sector
On February 26, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Project will hold its final symposium in Brussels. The conference aims to draft the conclusions of the cognitive and investigative activities started in 2017 and developed through a series of meetings all focused on identifying the best way to combine the tangible cultural heritage preserved in museums with the tangible cultural heritage related to practice and way of living. The symposium organizers explain that cooperation between intangible he...
PLUGGY final event "Europeans to become online heritage curators"
Pluggy, the Pluggable Social Platform for Heritage Awareness and Participation, is a 3 year EC funded project with the aim to involve actively the whole society in cultural heritage.   The platform provides innovative tools and apps (i.e. 3D audio, augmented reality, geolocation and collaborative games) to enable users to share their local knowledge and experiences by allowing professionals and citizens to actively contribute to the promotion and preservation of cultural heritage. ...