Heritage and landscapes of care: looking for positives

Description

Moving beyond perceiving them as mere products or physical artefacts to be ‘preserved’, this paper considers the consequences of thinking processually about both landscapes and heritage. Examining some existential, methodological and intellectual commonalities and trajectories, therefore, I will try to chart a way forward that involves a collaborative conversation between work on heritage and work on landscape. Reflecting on the experience of walking across a small stone bridge that keeps getting washed away, the paper seeks to open up a creative space of heritage landscaping, in which ‘small stories’, haptic experience, ephemerality and movement provide a productive possibility of radical conservation practice. The paper, therefore, raises questions about the work that heritage and landscape does – and can do – specifically in terms of the conceptualisation of temporality, issues of authenticity and the politics of care.

Period	22 Apr 2022
Event title	XVI Nordic TAG Conference: What's the use of theory?
Event type	Conference
Location	Oslo, NorwayShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International