Initial Ideas for TRT3 Topics & Activities: 

How to Approach the TRT 3 Topics in Research?

  • Decolonization and democratization of (institutional) knowledge, culture & heritage
  • Heritage engagement, inclusion, co-creation through participatory methods (digital tools, storytelling, oral history, raising awareness, education, participatory mapping…)
  • Tackling needs of heritage communities
  • Researching civil society, individuals and community initiatives & uses of heritage (and through it the questions of identity, social cohesion…)
  • Heritagization process – heritage making, interpretation and transmission, relations among actors (not only heritage actors)
  • Questioning and (re)defining universal, European, national heritage and identities

 

What Research Lines Are Important to Tackle?

  • Interpretation of CH by different communities
  • Building narratives
  • CH building identity & promoting inclusion
  • Empowerment through heritage & participatory and co-creation methods
  • Instrumentalization of heritage
  • Heritagization process
  • Good practices on the TRT topics

 

Expectations

  • Sharing different points of view, debate and develop knowledge & projects
  • Networking
  • Understanding mechanisms behind social & identity aspects of heritage and their values
  • Help doctoral candidates in their research & building their career

 

Desired activities

  • Meetings, lectures, seminars, workshops
  • Publications
  • Networking
  • Exchanges, discussions
  • Fieldworks – working together on a case study to get to know each other, respective expertise & engage the Doctoral candidates (i. e. giving them to prepare the initial presentation of the case study)
  • Collaboration with heritage professionals
  • Developing common projects

 

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TRT3 Meeting / June 24, 2022: This meeting began with an informal discussion that included introductions, the general role of Una Europa’s Transnational Research Teams (TRTs), and a follow-up to a Google Form team members had populated with preferences and ideas for the theme of Social Capital, Mutuality and Volunteering prior to the meeting.

Participants gave presentations of their work in the context of TRT3, as well as proposals for future activities. The meeting included the use of stories and historic language in heritagisation. There were discussions of social inclusion and participatory methods, the act of decolonialising knowledge, the needs of heritage communities, civil society and community initiatives to interrelate, as well as a questioning of how society and its institutions use heritage.

Overall, it was a chance for TRT3 to revisit ideas of heritagisation, face certain problematics of Europeanisation throughout the globe, and to build a collective with an awareness of the range of forces creating what we call Cultural Heritage. The meeting ended with a conclusion of collective thoughts and agenda that included future “Get-Togethers” as well as introductions to non-academic stakeholders.