Theme:
3. Heritage Narratives and Representations
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Different Stories for Different People? Shaping Narratives: From Individual Research Sites to Major Infrastructure Projects
Content:
Major Infrastructure projects through their sheer scale clearly have the potential to both generate and challenge archaeological narratives. They also have a responsibility to communicate narratives more widely as part of realising the benefits of such extensive programmes of work. This session will focus on the potential ways of communicating archaeological narratives from projects of all sizes, and from long running research excavations such as those at Nea Paphos, Cyprus, to large commercial infrastructure programmes.
There may be much to learn for large scale infrastructure from approaches taken at individual sites and research projects which have focussed on communicating the outcomes of their work to a variety of audiences. From the implementation of the Historic Environment Research and Delivery Strategy on HS2 Phase 1, a number of themes emerge:
• How does fieldwork practice and decision-making influence narratives?
• To what extent do question-led approaches change narratives?
• How are narratives communicated to wider audiences?
• Who are those audiences and which narratives do we choose to present?
• How do we consider less heard voices and ensure we are inclusive?
We invite papers from a range of cultural heritage projects, both small and large scale, that consider how archaeological narratives are generated and how those narratives are communicated more widely. To what extent are different narratives communicated to different audiences and how do we identify the stories we wish to tell? What are the types of communication and dissemination that best reflect results and to what extent do they differ between different types of investigation?? How can dialogue with a range of audiences contribute to the shaping of narratives? To what extent can different delivery mechanisms be used to reach different audiences?
Keywords:
Narratives, communication, research, Infrastructure, audiences
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
John Halsted (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Tomomi Fushiya (Poland) 2
Affiliations:
1. HS2 Ltd
2. University of Warsaw
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