Periodic Reporting for period 1 - HERILAND (Cultural HERItage and the planning of European LANDscapes)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2019-04-01 do 2021-03-31
European countries are proud of their rich heritage and landscape assets, both urban and rural. They have a lengthy and successful history of conserving them and capitalising on them culturally and economically. Throughout the 20th century, particularly since the 1960s, great progress has been made in creating structures and promulgating principles (often in conjunction with the international community through UNESCO) to guide heritage and landscape conservation. As the 21st century proceeds, however, it is becoming increasingly clear that a further paradigm shift is required. There are new far-reaching drivers for change, including rising and moving populations, greater connections through the digital world between communities, environmental degradation and climate change, as well as calls for democratisation in decision making and management. The significant steps forward made in heritage theory, aims and practice are no longer sufficient. Confronted with such a fast-changing context, heritage management needs to become more proactive. More powerful ideas, tools and training are needed to ensure that interdisciplinary, research-based heritage and landscape management and spatial planning are positively integrated with business activity, with city and rural development, and with democratic participation in decision making that shapes the future landscape. HERILAND participants have individually played a leading role in the development of such a new socially-embedded approach to heritage. They have now united in a consortium with the aim to train a new generation of academics, policy makers, practitioners, professionals and entrepreneurs. This new generation must devise and guide transdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and mainstreamed planning and design strategies for regenerating European heritage and landscape, foster social inclusiveness, and create socially, economically and environmentally sustainable future landscapes. HERILAND will achieve this by defining, evaluating and anchoring a new, pan-European research and training standard along these lines.
Drawing on the above, HERILAND sets itself six specific objectives: 1/ to conceive and operationalise a transferable research design with which to investigate at a multi-national level how heritage should be managed and planned in the context of contemporary spatial and societal transformations and related sustainable development goals; 2/ to develop a skill set with innovative analytical concepts, methods and tools, implementing and evaluating them in practice; 3/ to provide researchers and practitioners of spatial heritage planning with an innovative and diverse set of concepts, techniques and skills for promoting and supporting co-creative approaches; 4/ to establish a new European ESR-training standard in the transdisciplinary area of heritage and spatial planning; 5/ to offer ‘on the job’ training of scientific and complementary professional skills, expose the students to multiple audiences (also in dissemination) and raise students’ future job opportunities; 6/ To guarantee sustainability of the HERILAND College as a European-wide platform for collaborative research and training along the lines set out by HERILAND.
Drawing on the above, HERILAND sets itself six specific objectives: 1/ to conceive and operationalise a transferable research design with which to investigate at a multi-national level how heritage should be managed and planned in the context of contemporary spatial and societal transformations and related sustainable development goals; 2/ to develop a skill set with innovative analytical concepts, methods and tools, implementing and evaluating them in practice; 3/ to provide researchers and practitioners of spatial heritage planning with an innovative and diverse set of concepts, techniques and skills for promoting and supporting co-creative approaches; 4/ to establish a new European ESR-training standard in the transdisciplinary area of heritage and spatial planning; 5/ to offer ‘on the job’ training of scientific and complementary professional skills, expose the students to multiple audiences (also in dissemination) and raise students’ future job opportunities; 6/ To guarantee sustainability of the HERILAND College as a European-wide platform for collaborative research and training along the lines set out by HERILAND.
The HERILAND team has collectively worked towards the creation of an overall research design. The work has included three, closely linked components
1/ The first component concerns the research and development of concrete heritage planning strategies towards the major societal challenges that we consider key to future heritage practice. These challenges are: the spatial turn (WP1), democratisation (WP2), digitalisation (WP3), shifting demographies and contested identities (WP4) and changing environments (WP5). To each challenge we have dedicated a WP. All WPs host three ESR projects, each of these dedicated to research of the central challenge of the respective WP;
2/ The second component concerns the development and evaluation of a heritage planning skill set of concepts, methods and tools vital to study these challenges. This engages all WPs.
3/The third component supports and tests the research through multiple levels of reflection and practice. This also engages all WPs.
In WP1, ESRs 1 to 3 have studied and experimented with the spatial turn which characterizes current trends in the cultural heritage field; they focus on how heritage can be perceived through the lens of landscape, and how this can inspire spatial planning and design processes. In WP2, ESRs 4 to 6 have analyzed democratisation processes, concepts and tools with regard to the definition, management and planning of heritage landscapes. In WP3, ESRs 7 to 9 have investigated the impact of digital transformations on access to, perceptions of and meanings and values attributed to heritage. In WP4, ESRs 10 to 12 have developed and tested procedures and tools that can challenge European key social-demographic issues like gentrification, multi-culturalism, and population decline and growth. Finally, in WP5, ESRs 13 to 15 have focused on the role of heritage in changing environments, in particular in climate change adaptation and, in particular with regard to water management, urban-rural interactions and the future of post-industrial landscapes. Together, the five work packages provide a model for research into how heritage can be planned sustainably. All WP training and research on the above challenges have been focused on both traditional and innovative scientific skills: concepts, methods and tools relevant to various cross-disciplinary fields, ranging from critical heritage studies to spatial planning, spatial economics, governance and smart technology.
1/ The first component concerns the research and development of concrete heritage planning strategies towards the major societal challenges that we consider key to future heritage practice. These challenges are: the spatial turn (WP1), democratisation (WP2), digitalisation (WP3), shifting demographies and contested identities (WP4) and changing environments (WP5). To each challenge we have dedicated a WP. All WPs host three ESR projects, each of these dedicated to research of the central challenge of the respective WP;
2/ The second component concerns the development and evaluation of a heritage planning skill set of concepts, methods and tools vital to study these challenges. This engages all WPs.
3/The third component supports and tests the research through multiple levels of reflection and practice. This also engages all WPs.
In WP1, ESRs 1 to 3 have studied and experimented with the spatial turn which characterizes current trends in the cultural heritage field; they focus on how heritage can be perceived through the lens of landscape, and how this can inspire spatial planning and design processes. In WP2, ESRs 4 to 6 have analyzed democratisation processes, concepts and tools with regard to the definition, management and planning of heritage landscapes. In WP3, ESRs 7 to 9 have investigated the impact of digital transformations on access to, perceptions of and meanings and values attributed to heritage. In WP4, ESRs 10 to 12 have developed and tested procedures and tools that can challenge European key social-demographic issues like gentrification, multi-culturalism, and population decline and growth. Finally, in WP5, ESRs 13 to 15 have focused on the role of heritage in changing environments, in particular in climate change adaptation and, in particular with regard to water management, urban-rural interactions and the future of post-industrial landscapes. Together, the five work packages provide a model for research into how heritage can be planned sustainably. All WP training and research on the above challenges have been focused on both traditional and innovative scientific skills: concepts, methods and tools relevant to various cross-disciplinary fields, ranging from critical heritage studies to spatial planning, spatial economics, governance and smart technology.
Results beyond the state of the art
• HERILAND advances a unifying and developmental landscape perspective in the field of heritage planning, positioning heritage within spatial and social transformation processes;
• HERILAND implements and tests new concepts, methods and tools in the heritage field, linking theory and practice;
• HERILAND develops tools and techniques for co-creation in heritage management;
• HERILAND transcends the still strongly institutionalised boundaries between distinct academic disciplines, governmental agencies and professional and business fields, creating a shared, sustainable, interdisciplinary, intersectoral and Pan-European training and education model.
• HERILAND combines the expertise of an interdisciplinary and cross–sectoral group of key players in the heritage field: heritage specialists, social scientists, spatial economists, urbanists, civic planners and designers and (geospatial) technology engineers from public agencies, universities, NGO’s, SMEs and other stakeholders.
Impact
Heriland
• enhances career perspectives and employability of its researchers and contributes to their skills development
• contributes to build inclusive, vibrant and accessible communities
• develops strategies for smart spatial transformation
• Promotes transdisciplinary co-creation in research and innovation.
• Stimulates job creation and economic growth.
• Delivers ESRs as a major impact factor.
• HERILAND advances a unifying and developmental landscape perspective in the field of heritage planning, positioning heritage within spatial and social transformation processes;
• HERILAND implements and tests new concepts, methods and tools in the heritage field, linking theory and practice;
• HERILAND develops tools and techniques for co-creation in heritage management;
• HERILAND transcends the still strongly institutionalised boundaries between distinct academic disciplines, governmental agencies and professional and business fields, creating a shared, sustainable, interdisciplinary, intersectoral and Pan-European training and education model.
• HERILAND combines the expertise of an interdisciplinary and cross–sectoral group of key players in the heritage field: heritage specialists, social scientists, spatial economists, urbanists, civic planners and designers and (geospatial) technology engineers from public agencies, universities, NGO’s, SMEs and other stakeholders.
Impact
Heriland
• enhances career perspectives and employability of its researchers and contributes to their skills development
• contributes to build inclusive, vibrant and accessible communities
• develops strategies for smart spatial transformation
• Promotes transdisciplinary co-creation in research and innovation.
• Stimulates job creation and economic growth.
• Delivers ESRs as a major impact factor.