[BCMA] Heritage Conservation and Place - a learning opportunity at UVIC

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The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria is pleased to announce an upcoming course for heritage professionals:

Heritage Conservation and Place
HA 489E Topics in Heritage Conservation (1.5 units)

June 18- 23, 2012; on-campus offering
Instructor: Ned Kaufman

In conserving the built environment, it isn't enough to understand the artifact itself: one has to start by understanding its place as the source for much of its significance and value. This course explores the concept of place in depth.

Place is a concept that experts of many kinds - from conservation biologists to philosophers, psychologists to geographers, political scientists to poets - have struggled to define. This course exposes participants to some of the most promising conservation frameworks and draws on insights of specialists in other fields.

We emphasize insights into how the character and conservation of places support individual identity and productive social interactions. We draw especially on the work of environmental psychologists and cultural geographers. We also give special consideration to concepts of place formulated by Aboriginal peoples in Canada, the US, and Australia. In each case, we consider how these insights can be incorporated into the day-to-day heritage conservation decision-making, as well as the legal and procedural frameworks that define conservation practice.

Through this course, participants will:
*  learn to understand place as a multi-dimensional  concept, combining aesthetic and historical values with community traditions, living history, individual memories, and social interactions;
*  master leading frameworks for conserving the values and significance of places, including the concepts of social value and traditional cultural places;
*  be exposed to techniques for identifying place-values, such as activity mapping and interviewing, that lie outside standard conservation training yet are important parts of a well-rounded approach to conserving places; and
*  gain insight into how they can modify existing legal and procedural frameworks for conservation to achieve better results in safeguarding the values of places that make them important to communities.

Registration Deadline: May 21, 2012, late registrations accepted if space permits
Registration form available at:  http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/Course/Topics-in-Heritage-Conservation-Heritage-Conservation-and-Place/HA489E003/

Fee: CAD $693 (Canadian funds, credit and non-credit participation options) including a CAD$75 materials fee and a CAD$100 tuition/registration deposit is required with each registration form. The tuition balance of CAD$518 is due on or before the first day of the course. UVSS Fees will also be assessed to credit students only. Please refer to our registration and withdrawal policies.

Instructor:  Dr. Ned Kaufman is a heritage consultant and author of Place, Race, and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation (Routledge, 2009). He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute and Director of Research and Training for Rafael Viñoly Architects. Previously he was director of historic preservation at the Municipal Art Society of New York, where he shared in the National Trust's Institutional Achievement award, and founded and co-directed Place Matters. He earned a Ph.D. in architectural history from Yale.

How to contact us
Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies
University of Victoria
Phone 250-721-6119
Fax 250-721-8774
Email crmcoord at uvic.ca
Stay up to date; check our website regularly for more news:
www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/cultural

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