WHAT IS LIVING HERITAGE?

AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT HERE?

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EARLY STAGE CLIENT PRESENTATION

• These slides have been prepared as a practical tool for engaging the client in living heritage in the early stages of a project.

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• They are designed to act as an eight-page living heritage introduction, and template sheets have been included at the end where you might add your own project specific slides to complete the presentation.

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The Space, If_Do

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LIVING HERITAGE

WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND WHY DOES IT MATTER HERE?

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Pavillion on the Green, Fisher Cheng Architects

• Living heritage refers to places, traditions, practices, skills, and cultural meanings that remain actively used and valued by communities today.

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• Examples may include community gathering spaces, craft traditions, religious practices, markets, cultural landscapes, and local stories associated with a site.

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• Designing with living heritage means understanding what gives a place meaning to its community and ensuring that change strengthens, rather than erases, those relationships.

LIVING HERITAGE AROUND THE WORLD

WHAT IS THE WIDER CONTEXT?

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PORET Kindergarten, Studio Anna Heringer

• For many years, international heritage policies focused mainly on protecting important buildings, monuments and historic sites.

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• This meant that some forms of culture were overlooked, especially traditions, skills, knowledge and ways of life that are passed between people.

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• In 2003, UNESCO introduced the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage to help recognise and protect this heritage.

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• The convention highlights the importance of cultural practices, local knowledge, crafts, storytelling, music, celebrations and other traditions that communities value and keep alive.

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Found at : https://ich.unesco.org/en/dive

LIVING HERITAGE AROUND THE WORLD

UNESCO INTERACTIVE CONSTELLATION OF LIVING HERITAGE

LIVING HERITAGE HERE IN THE UK

WHAT IS THE NATIONAL CONTEXT?

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• After two decades of discussion, the UK ratified the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention in March 2024.

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• The UK framework includes UNESCO's five categories of intangible heritage: oral expressions, performing arts, social practices, nature-based knowledge, and traditional crafts.

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• It also recognises two additional categories that are particularly relevant in the UK context: sports and games, and culinary practices.

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• A key principle is that heritage must be living and community-led. It is not enough for a practice to have historical significance; it must still be meaningful to the people who pass it on.

Manchester Museum, Purcell

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Found at : https://livingheritage.unesco.org.uk

INVENTORIES OF LIVING HERITAGE IN THE UK

LIVING HERITAGE HERE IN THE UK

CASE STUDY 1

GARDEN OF REST, CLAIRE BANDY ARCHITECT

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Garden of Rest, Claire Bandy Architect

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Garden of Rest, Claire Bandy Architect

AN ONGOING PROCESS meant that the community were involved at all stages of the design.

SPACES WERE TESTED on site allowing the community to give the best possible feedback.

Garden of Rest, Claire Bandy Architect

SOCIAL PRACTICES were uncovered through engagement and used in the design.

CASE STUDY 1

GARDEN OF REST, CLAIRE BANDY ARCHITECT

Garden of Rest, Claire Bandy Architect

CASE STUDY 2

PARK PALACE PONIES, HARRISON STRINGFELLOW

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Park Palace Ponies, Harrison Stringfellow

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Park Palace Ponies, Harrison Stringfellow

SHARED MEMORIES of ‘being together’ were found in the buildings old use as a cinema.

ENGAGEMENT was used throughout the project as a design tool to really understand the place.

Park Palace Ponies, Harrison Stringfellow

TEMPORARY USE was a way of seeing what might work in the building, a bit like a rehearsal.

CASE STUDY 2

PARK PALACE PONIES, HARRISON STRINGFELLOW

Park Palace Ponies, Harrison Stringfellow

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