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APPLIED HERITAGE RESEARCH
Outlines of a research agenda
Jan Kolen
VU University Amsterdam/CLUE
Leeuwarden, 8-12- 2010
The academic debate about heritage:
• Heritage versus history
• Heritage is a construction of the past for present-day purposes
Trends in heritage practices and management:
• From a “culture of loss” to a “culture of profit”
• Revitalizing heritage and cultural landscapes
Programs for the Wadden region:
• Applied heritage research
• Heritage and cultural landscape as valuable environmental resources
• Role of heritage and the cultural landscape in spatial transformations, regional developments and spatial issues
HERITAGE AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES AS ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES
Applied Heritage Research
Heritage and cultural landscape as valuable social resources:
• Medium for anchoring and storing personal and shared memories
• Identification with the living environment
Oudeschild, Texel: war memorial
Middag-Humsterland (dwelling mounds)
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1966)
“Space is a society of named places, just as people are landmarks within the group”
Regional identity (Groningen)
Heritage and cultural landscape as valuable ecological resources:
• Small-scale, human induced biotopes
• Rich in gradients
Texel: “tuunwallen”
Heritage and cultural landscape as valuable economic resources:
• Heritage tourism
• Creative industry (reuse of buildings)
Tourism in the Wadden region
Creative industry
Heritage and cultural landscape as aesthetic values:
• Belvedere policy (1999)
• Conservation through development (architecture, urban planning, landscape design)
Heritage and cultural landscape as technological resources:
• Revitalising old land use systems
• Water management
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER REGIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS: “BEST PRACTICES”
Applied Heritage Research
Drentse A
Fence in the Vechtstreek
Designed fences: Vechtstreek
Strijp S (Eindhoven)
Lankheet (Twente): vloeiweide system
SPATIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WADDEN REGION:• Population growth
• Economic growth (tourism; creative industry)• Population decline (“shrinking regions”)
Applied Heritage Research
“Growing regions” in the Netherlands (red brown)
Den Helder
Venice ( heritage): gentrification
“Shrinking regions” in the Netherlands (dark blue)
Shrinking region: Het Bildt
“Shrinking Regions”: Possible scenarios
• Development of leisure landscapes tourism)
• Large-scale farming• Bigger houses in green areas
Blauwe Stad (Winschoten)
Heritage Programs for the Wadden region
• Environment-based (European Landscae Convention)
• Differentiated scenarios• Knowledge-based rather than policy-based• Interdisciplinary• Adopting a “dwelling perspective”
Heritage Programs for the Wadden region
• Environment-based (European Landscae Convention)
• Differentiated scenarios• Knowledge-based rather than policy-based• Interdisciplinary• Adopting a “dwelling perspective”
Tim Ingold
“The landscape unfolds the lives and times of predecessors who, over the generations, have moved around in it and played their part in its formation. To perceive the landscape is therefore to carry out an act of remembrance, and remembering is not so much a matter of calling up an internal image, stored in the mind, as of engaging perceptually with an environment that is itself pregnant with the past”.
Tim Ingold (2000)
