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From the editors,
Heritage can be said to be concerned with the conservation and preservation of historic buildings, districts, and landscapes, as well as the design and management of cultural heritage sites. The materiality of heritage resources through documentation, diagnosis, and the treatment of interventions is rich. Thus far, thus familiar.
Of course, heritage is not just a case of preservation and management but enters the realms of symbolism and memory. There are burgeoning fields of urban and cultural heritage that encourage a critical analysis and assessment of the cultural values that underlie and define preservation policies, laws, and professional norms. What a place – from village to connurbation – defines as its architectural heritage plays a significant role in creating a sense of belonging to communities and an architectural curation dependent on the subjective collective memory of the past. This is both a cultural and political exercise of power, a making of the past that is chosen to be its representation. The interpretation, presentation, management and conservation of urban and cultural heritage is a matter of urgency and significance for global cities and communities.
As built environment practitioners we face pressing challenges of rapid urbanisation, of economic and environmental sustainability and of social change.
This issue of EDGEcondition presents opinion, practice and projects from a variety of professional and global perspectives, all of which question the modern meaning of heritage as well as what it means to practice with it and within it.
Cara and Gem
Heritage can be said to be concerned with the conservation and preservation of historic buildings, districts, and landscapes, as well as the design and management of cultural heritage sites. The materiality of heritage resources through documentation, diagnosis, and the treatment of interventions is rich. Thus far, thus familiar.
Of course, heritage is not just a case of preservation and management but enters the realms of symbolism and memory. There are burgeoning fields of urban and cultural heritage that encourage a critical analysis and assessment of the cultural values that underlie and define preservation policies, laws, and professional norms. What a place – from village to connurbation – defines as its architectural heritage plays a significant role in creating a sense of belonging to communities and an architectural curation dependent on the subjective collective memory of the past. This is both a cultural and political exercise of power, a making of the past that is chosen to be its representation. The interpretation, presentation, management and conservation of urban and cultural heritage is a matter of urgency and significance for global cities and communities.
As built environment practitioners we face pressing challenges of rapid urbanisation, of economic and environmental sustainability and of social change.
This issue of EDGEcondition presents opinion, practice and projects from a variety of professional and global perspectives, all of which question the modern meaning of heritage as well as what it means to practice with it and within it.
Cara and Gem