RES.CO.PART · Research Consultation and Participation: developing a tool for managing cultural heritage and landscape

Research Consultation and Participation:developing a tool for managing cultural heritage and landscape

This is the final technical report for the MSCA-IF no. 657050 titled “Research Consultation and Participation: developing a tool for managing cultural heritage and landscape” (RES.CO.PART), implemented during 01/09/2015 to 31/08/2017 at Newcastle University, which was the lead beneficiary of the action. The last two decades have witnessed a marked turn in the cultural management debate towards the social values of culture and heritage. This could be considered a result of several ongoing processes, as political de-colonisation and democratic aspirations, economic refocusing of development processes, and reflexive criticism in social science research. These changes have led to alternative approaches, ranging from recognition of a multiplicity of pasts, through the analysis of power relations between experts and marginalised groups, to the recognition of cultural self-determination as a human right, as stated in the Fribourg Declaration 2007. Participatory tools for public inclusion are now common across Europe. However, such methodologies have borrowed much terminology and various tools for collecting and communicating data from the business administration field and in the process they have lost touch with significant concepts relating to the socio-cultural texture of cultural heritage; consequently, they tend to provide interpretations with an economistic and managerial perspective rather than a human one, leaving outside vital aspects as the role of culture in the local, national and European identities. In recent years strong concerns have emerged on the adequacy of such tools and their long-term impact on local communities. The Fellowship aimed to address the points above, devising and implementing a new tool for the sustainable management of cultural heritage, bridging theoretical study and practical application, by bringing together research, consultation, participation and decision-making.

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