[BCMA] Heritage Conservation and Place - June course at UVIC

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The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria is pleased to announce a unique learning opportunity for individuals working with places of heritage value, including heritage professionals and community practitioners, municipal, community and parks planners, architects, landscape architects, and others from associated disciplines.

Heritage Conservation and Place
HA 489E (1.5 units)

June 18- 23, 2012 in Victoria, BC.
Instructor: Ned Kaufman, PhD. (bio follows)

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

Fee: CAD $693 (includes tuition and learning materials; Canadian funds, credit and non-credit participation options available) Please refer to website for details and policies.

Instructor: Ned Kaufman, PhD, is a heritage consultant, author, Professor of Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute, and Director of Research and Training for Rafael Viñoly Architects. His Place, Race, and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation (Routledge, 2009) and numerous articles challenge professionals to expand the focus of traditional heritage conservation to relate to broader social roles. 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 curated the inaugural exhibition of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and has been an invited speaker at the 2010 and 2011 Heritage Canada national conferences. He earned a Ph.D. in architectural history from Yale.

Complete course description and registration form available at:  http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/Course/Topics-in-Heritage-Conservation-Heritage-Conservation-and-Place/HA489E003/

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<mailto:crmcoord at uvic.ca>
www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/cultural<http://www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/cultural>
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