In this session our speakers will offer different perspectives on heritage sites as places of occupation – both past and present – and what this means when caring for and interpreting these sites today.
Unlike many museums which display histories in purpose-built spaces divorced from the lives of the people who made, used or traded the collections they display, heritage sites are inscribed (often literally) with the traces of occupants – past and present – who have lived, worked, studied or visited these places.
What stories and what objects do we privilege over others?
What lives do we tell, and how do we do it?
How do we read an object when it is absent, broken, ephemeral, enigmatic, everyday?
How does living in and engaging with heritage benefit people today?
Speakers:
Peter Aiers OBE is CEO of The Charterhouse, an almshouse community living in a unique historic site in the heart of London.
Dr Rachel Conroy is Senior National Curator at the National Trust, responsible for Decorative Art and the North region.
Please can OOC DTP students at Oxford register via this booking link . OOC DTP students at Cambridge and the Open University, please email training@humanities.ox.ac.uk if you wish to book a place.
