Session: #838

Theme & Session Format

Theme:
3. The Life of Archaeological Heritage in Society
Session format:
Workshop

Title & Content

Title:
Community Engagement in Archaeological Heritage: Best Practices, Objectives, Conflicts, and Plans for the Future
Content:
In this workshop on community engagement in archaeological heritage management individual colleagues and/or initiatives that do community engagement from all over Europe meet to discuss methods, limitations, prospects, and plan for the future. Participants will be divided into different working groups and will engage in an organised discussion about methods that are put into practice, the selection of audiences,
the non-participants and the reasons for not getting involved, the power dynamics and the issues of conflict, the common values that can emerge from community engagement archaeological heritage projects, as well as the potential future steps to be taken. The purpose of this closed interactive workshop is to formulate a series of proposals for the development of a manual of best practices and methodologies for organizing actions to engage and activate local communities in archaeology and cultural heritage. The participants will be divided into groups that will work in round tables, and with the guidance of the moderators will be focused on the following topics: best practices that they have implemented so far, indicating the specific characteristics of the communities to which they were targeted, problems and / or conflicts they face in organizing their actions, goals and objectives for future actions and synergies. In the end of the workshop the topics from each group will be presented to all participants.
Keywords:
Community engagement, Cultural Heritage, Methods and Practices
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:

Organisers

Main organiser:
ELENI STEFANOU (Greece) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Aris Anagnostopoulos (United Kingdom) 3,1
Affiliations:
1. The Heritage Management Organization
2. Hellenic Open University, MSc Cultural Organizations Management
3. University of Kent