scholarly journals Building Stories: Oral History, Built Heritage & Numinous Fabric

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Miranda Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Heritage Studies

<p>Carman and Sørensen’s book Heritage Studies: Methods and Approaches challenges us to reconsider and extend methodologies in heritage studies. This thesis takes inspiration from their book to ask how and why heritage practitioners and academics researching built heritage should use oral history as a useful qualitative tool in their research process. In the New Zealand context, researchers find it difficult to find information for the period that spans the Second World War to the present, due to the common practice of restricting access to recent official records and government documents, in most cases due to sensitivities about privacy, and the cessation of the Papers Past newspaper resource. This thesis asks if researchers could fill this gap by drawing on tools from the fields of public history and oral history and by doing this extend and refine the theory and practice of heritage studies and heritage management.  To test this approach, I have undertaken a case study of the historic building, Ngaroma, in Wellington’s Lyall Bay. The methodology I have followed involved first delving into the building’s history through library and archival sources; I then conducted nine interviews with people who have had a connection to the building. The data I have gathered about both the physical and social fabric of Ngaroma and its history has built up a picture of life in the building. Memory, senses and emotion have emerged as important aspects of my findings.  In analysing the results, I have extended the established binary understanding of the physical and social fabrics of the building and developed the concept of ‘numinous fabric’. In doing so I argue that we can identify the overlap between physical fabric and social fabric which can guide and inspire the way we can go about interviewing people by linking extant fabric with intangible things such as memories. This thesis finds that oral history can be used to tap into a rich source of material that adds depth and dimension to our understanding of the built heritage around us. It encourages all academics and heritage professionals researching historic buildings to undertake oral interviews as a central qualitative methodology and in doing so to bring together heritage theory and heritage management practice.</p>

scholarly journals Building Stories: Oral History, Built Heritage & Numinous Fabric

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Miranda Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Heritage Studies

<p>Carman and Sørensen’s book Heritage Studies: Methods and Approaches challenges us to reconsider and extend methodologies in heritage studies. This thesis takes inspiration from their book to ask how and why heritage practitioners and academics researching built heritage should use oral history as a useful qualitative tool in their research process. In the New Zealand context, researchers find it difficult to find information for the period that spans the Second World War to the present, due to the common practice of restricting access to recent official records and government documents, in most cases due to sensitivities about privacy, and the cessation of the Papers Past newspaper resource. This thesis asks if researchers could fill this gap by drawing on tools from the fields of public history and oral history and by doing this extend and refine the theory and practice of heritage studies and heritage management.  To test this approach, I have undertaken a case study of the historic building, Ngaroma, in Wellington’s Lyall Bay. The methodology I have followed involved first delving into the building’s history through library and archival sources; I then conducted nine interviews with people who have had a connection to the building. The data I have gathered about both the physical and social fabric of Ngaroma and its history has built up a picture of life in the building. Memory, senses and emotion have emerged as important aspects of my findings.  In analysing the results, I have extended the established binary understanding of the physical and social fabrics of the building and developed the concept of ‘numinous fabric’. In doing so I argue that we can identify the overlap between physical fabric and social fabric which can guide and inspire the way we can go about interviewing people by linking extant fabric with intangible things such as memories. This thesis finds that oral history can be used to tap into a rich source of material that adds depth and dimension to our understanding of the built heritage around us. It encourages all academics and heritage professionals researching historic buildings to undertake oral interviews as a central qualitative methodology and in doing so to bring together heritage theory and heritage management practice.</p>

An Introduction to the Stone Age Archaeology of the Polihali Dam Area, Mokhotlong District, Lesotho

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Tim Forssman ◽  
Matt Lotter ◽  
John Parkington ◽  
Jeremy Hollmann ◽  
Jessica Angel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Eastern Highlands

Abstract Much of Lesotho’s cultural heritage has been studied as a result of dam developments. Where dams have been built, heritage studies have provided crucial data for improving our understanding of local archaeological sequences. Ahead of the construction of the Lesotho Highland Development Authority’s (LHDA) new Polihali Dam in Lesotho’s Mokhotlong District and following the recommendations of a heritage assessment (CES 2014), a large-scale five-year cultural heritage management program was launched in 2018 that seeks to excavate and mitigate a number of heritage sites. Here, we provide the background to one of southern Africa’s largest heritage mitigation contracts by contextualising the current research program. We then present the archaeology of Lesotho’s eastern highlands basalt region using data collected during the inception phase of this program. The findings challenge current preconceived notions about the sparsity of archaeological remains for this region.

scholarly journals Constructing the Identities of Place: An Exploration of Māori and Archaeological Heritage Practices in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elizabeth Dale Pishief
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Great Depth ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Refined Theory ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Heritage Studies

<p>This thesis examines a problem in current heritage practice, namely, the statutory management of archaeological sites separately from other heritage places with the consequent loss of many sites of importance to Māori. It explores places and the different meanings and practices of heritage constructed around them by archaeologists and Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand where such questions have not been critically examined in great depth. The study responds to this gap in the literature by setting out to develop a theory of heritage practice that enables the effective translation of peoples' heritage aspirations into a workable model of heritage management in place of the current framework. The research has used an interdisciplinary theoretical framework developed from the literature of heritage studies and related fields, which builds on Laurajane Smith's work on archaeology and the authorised heritage discourse, but also includes writing on governmentality, phenomenology, kinaesthesia, agency, and material culture. The research design employed a qualitative, interpretivist methodology. Discourse analysis of the evidence gathered from secondary sources, including legislation and policy; and an ethnography of current professional practice in the form of interviews and participant observation, all produced rich findings about heritage, place and practice that are fundamental to understanding the complex issues examined in this study. The main finding that emerges from the research is a refined theory of heritage. I argue that heritage is comprised of three tangible elements: person, performance and place, which create what Māori respondents refer to as the 'Connect', a contemporary Māori heritage practice related to customary concepts. Heritage is the Connect. The research has led to the formulation of a more appropriate trans-cultural, bi-national governance model of heritage. As one of the first sustained pieces of critical analysis of heritage management in New Zealand, this thesis thereby makes a significant academic contribution to critical heritage studies and the history, theory and practice of heritage management in this, and other post-settler nations.</p>

scholarly journals Constructing the Identities of Place: An Exploration of Māori and Archaeological Heritage Practices in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elizabeth Dale Pishief
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Great Depth ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Refined Theory ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Heritage Studies

<p>This thesis examines a problem in current heritage practice, namely, the statutory management of archaeological sites separately from other heritage places with the consequent loss of many sites of importance to Māori. It explores places and the different meanings and practices of heritage constructed around them by archaeologists and Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand where such questions have not been critically examined in great depth. The study responds to this gap in the literature by setting out to develop a theory of heritage practice that enables the effective translation of peoples' heritage aspirations into a workable model of heritage management in place of the current framework. The research has used an interdisciplinary theoretical framework developed from the literature of heritage studies and related fields, which builds on Laurajane Smith's work on archaeology and the authorised heritage discourse, but also includes writing on governmentality, phenomenology, kinaesthesia, agency, and material culture. The research design employed a qualitative, interpretivist methodology. Discourse analysis of the evidence gathered from secondary sources, including legislation and policy; and an ethnography of current professional practice in the form of interviews and participant observation, all produced rich findings about heritage, place and practice that are fundamental to understanding the complex issues examined in this study. The main finding that emerges from the research is a refined theory of heritage. I argue that heritage is comprised of three tangible elements: person, performance and place, which create what Māori respondents refer to as the 'Connect', a contemporary Māori heritage practice related to customary concepts. Heritage is the Connect. The research has led to the formulation of a more appropriate trans-cultural, bi-national governance model of heritage. As one of the first sustained pieces of critical analysis of heritage management in New Zealand, this thesis thereby makes a significant academic contribution to critical heritage studies and the history, theory and practice of heritage management in this, and other post-settler nations.</p>

Doctor Edwards Deming – a Thinker Against Time

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Yu.P. Adler ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Job Training ◽  
Sampling Methods ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Mathematical Statistics ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
On The Job Training

Dr. Edwards Deming, whose 120th birthday falls on October 14, 2020, has made outstanding contributions to management theory and practice, mathematical statistics and many other areas of human endeavor. This work, written for the anniversary of E. Deming, examines the paradoxes arising from his teachings. They relate, inter alia, to competition, motivation and remuneration, the use of sampling methods, on-the-job training, operational definitions and much more. Resolving these paradoxes is the path to a deeper understanding of the modern world and to the improvement of management practice. Already during Deming’s lifetime, numerous attempts were made to revise his teachings, and now there is a desire to abandon the use and development of his heritage. This is alarming and worrying.

A Review of Medical Waste Management in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaniyi FC ◽  
Ogola JS ◽  
Tshitangano TG
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
South African ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
African Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Medical Waste Management

Background:Poor medical waste management has been implicated in an increase in the number of epidemics and waste-related diseases in the past years. South Africa is resource-constrained in the management of medical waste.Objectives:A review of studies regarding medical waste management in South Africa in the past decade was undertaken to explore the practices of medical waste management and the challenges being faced by stakeholders.Method:Published articles, South African government documents, reports of hospital surveys, unpublished theses and dissertations were consulted, analysed and synthesised. The studies employed quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods and documented comparable results from all provinces.Results:The absence of a national policy to guide the medical waste management practice in the provinces was identified as the principal problem. Poor practices were reported across the country from the point of medical waste generation to disposal, as well as non-enforcement of guidelines in the provinces where they exit. The authorized disposal sites nationally are currently unable to cope with the enormous amount of the medical waste being generated and illegal dumping of the waste in unapproved sites have been reported. The challenges range from lack of adequate facilities for temporary storage of waste to final disposal.Conclusion:These challenges must be addressed and the practices corrected to forestall the adverse effects of poorly managed medical waste on the country. There is a need to develop a medical waste policy to assist in the management of such waste.

scholarly journals La catalogación del patrimonio arquitectónico de la ciudad de Valencia

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Teresa Broseta Palanca
Keyword(s):  
Land Development ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
The Right ◽  
Heritage Policy ◽  
Development Regulation

ÍndiceIntroducción1 El catálogo urbanístico en Valencia   1.1 Catálogo de Bienes y Espacios Protegidos del PGOU de Valencia    1.2 Normas urbanísticas sobre protección de inmuebles catalogados         1.3 Contenido normativo del catálogo   1.4 Los niveles de protección frente a convenciones de intervención en patrimonio arquitectónico   1.5 Modificaciones del catálogo: la Cárcel Modelo y la Tabacalera2 La ampliación y revisión del catálogo   2.1 La ampliación del Catálogo con los Planes Parciales   2.2 El Catálogo BYEP de Planes Especiales y Planes Especiales de Reforma Interior   2.3 Catálogo BYEP de Palnes Especiales de Protección   2.4 La Revisión Simplificada del Plan General de Valencia. Catálogo Estructural de Bienes y Espacios Protegidos   2.5 La multiplicidad de catálogos en el Término Municipal de Valencia3 La Catalogación de los Planes Especiales de Protección   3.1 Planes de Acción Territorial y Catálogos de Paisaje   3.2 Catálogo de Bienes y Espacios Rurales Protegidos del Plan de Acción Territorial de Protección de la Huerta (PATH)   3.3 Intervenciones en la Huerta Protegida de Valencia: La Punta y La Torre4 La catalogación de los Planes Especiales de Protección   4.1 Planes Especiales de Protección de la ciudad de Valencia    4.2 Normativa Urbanística del PGOU de Valencia sobre Palnes Especiales de Protección   4.3 Propuesta de ordenación de los PEPRI del Conjunto Histórico de la ciudad de Valencia   4.4 La catalogación. Niveles de protección propuestos en los Planes   4.5 Conclusión: cuadro comparativo de los diferentes criterios de intervención sobre inmuebles catalogados en los PEPRIS valencianos5 Catalogación de entornos BIC. La duplicidad de catálogos   5.1 PE de Protección del entorno BIC de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia de Campanar   5.2 PE de Protección del entorno de los BIC: Puerta de los Serranos, Iglesia y Convento de Santo Domingo, Museo de Bellas Artes, Monasterio del Temple, Palacio de Justicia, Exconvento del Carmen e Iglesia de Santa Cruz y Palacio de los Condes de Cervellón6 Conclusiones7 BibliografíaResumenEl presente trabajo es una adaptación del capítulo cuarto de la tesis doctoral realizada por la autora donde se analiza el tratamiento del patrimonio urbano arquitectónico en el ámbito del urbanismo y se aportan propuestas para la mejora de la conservación y difusión de los valores patrimoniales, a través de la optimización de los medios de catalogación. Para ello se comprueba la vigencia de los instrumentos de protección del patrimonio arquitectónico y su aplicación en la planificación urbanística de la Comunidad Valenciana, tanto a escala territorial como en los ámbitos urbanos de la ciudad de Valencia y núcleos de menor población. Asimismo, se analizan las técnicas de registro y catalogación de inmuebles y la adaptación de las TICS a estas prácticas tradicionales, mediante un sistema “e-heritage” como plataforma digital de datos, que garantice la operatividad de la gestión, y la comunicación y difusión del patrimonio por las administraciones. Como contribución, se propone la actualización y digitalización del catálogo de la ciudad Valencia, exportable al resto de catálogos municipales, como herramienta básica en la gestión del patrimonio, en consecución de la primera fase hacia su conservación, el conocimiento de los valores que llevaron a su catalogación.Palabras clave:Catálogo urbano / Patrimonio arquitectónico / Planeamiento / Gestión urbanística / ValenciaAbstract:This work is the fourth chapter adaptation of author’s doctoral thesis, whose main purpose is the knowledge of the validity of heritage preservation tools in town planning and land development management, with the aim to get useful proposals to improve the preservation and dissemination of the heritage values. The document explains the traditional methods of registration and cataloguing and their adaptation to ICT by an e-heritage digital data system, as guarantee of effective heritage policy of preservation, communication and diffusion by public administration. In the same way, the study provides the relation between built heritage management and land use and development regulation of Comunidad Valenciana, either on large territory scale or on urban area of Valencia and underpopulated towns. Given the right study, it provides improvements in the method of heritage identification and designation, as well as progress in built heritage protection rules for Valencian historic towns; furthermore, it contributes to update and digitize the heritage city catalogue of Valencia, with a system exportable to other cities, as a basic tool in cultural heritage management, towards the better identification of the values which cause designation and preservation.Keywords: Urban catalogue / Built heritage / Town planning / Urban Development / Valencia 

Spatial and architectural memory in oral histories of working life

Hot Metal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Adams Stein
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Industrial Site ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Oral Testimony ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
Space Architecture

This chapter recovers the architectural and spatial qualities of so-called ‘ordinary’ factory buildings. Focusing on the modern building that housed the Gov, it explores spatial and architectural memory through an integration of archival research, oral testimony and photographs. This examination is informed by an awareness of how the oral history process contributes to a co-construction of spatial memory, developing between the interviewee and interviewer. Focusing on the built heritage of an industrial site can tell us only limited things about labour, technology and working life, and without oral history narratives, archives and photographs, the remnant built heritage can be historically misleading. Given this book’s broad argument that one can do both – that is, explore material and embodied histories and human stories of working life – it is necessary to consider closely the physical and spatial environment in which the print-workers laboured. This chapter is about those matters of place, space, architecture and embodied experience.

scholarly journals Development of a Web Application for Historical Building Management through BIM Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Rodrigues ◽  
J. Teixeira ◽  
R. Matos ◽  
H. Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Web Application ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Data Management System ◽  
Historical Building ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Supporting Tool ◽  
Historical Heritage

Nowadays the built heritage has been recognized as one of the main sectors that can support the economic and sustainable development of countries. In the last years, the built heritage has been subject to several levels of interventions, being now clear its need for a proper maintenance and conservation management. However, in several cases, the maintenance faces lack of building records, which makes the maintenance a harsh, long, and expensive process. Therefore, there is an opportunity and need to apply new technologies, like Building Information Modelling (BIM), as supporting tool to the management of historical heritage. By so, the aim of this work was the development of a management system to be used as a supporting tool to the maintenance and conservation of the existent buildings, in historical context, facilitating to the interested parties the automated and digitized information needed to carry out the most varied tasks, with the particularity to be directly connected to the 3D-BIM model of the building. But in order to test the developed system (its applicability and functionality), it was in an early phase, applied to a pilot project with the significant heritage value. This work follows a development methodology applied to the case study and had different phases: (1) the case study was modelled in Autodesk Revit software, in whose model was inserted all the parametric information and associated metadata; (2) then, a support database of the management system was developed in Microsoft SQL Server, which will support all the information exported from the BIM model; (3) a web application was developed in C# through Visual Studio 2015, which works through and application programming interface (API) allowing the communication between the web application and the BIM model, allowing not only the interaction with the parametric information of this one, but also, a persistent access to a data management system (drawings, inspection reports, specifications, etc.) that has been created. The development of the management system and its application to the case study allows us to show its potential as a tool for the historical heritage management, contributing to its permanent and constantly updated management and cross off the fragmentation and loss of information therefore reducing the consequent investment in data collection.

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