Resilience, Sustainability and Creativity in Heritage Practice: Addressing Matters of Care

Resilience, Sustainability and Creativity in Heritage Practice: Addressing Matters of Care will be presented by Hanneke Booij, University of Stirling and chaired by Professor Sian Jones, University of Stirling.

Abstract

My PhD is a collaborative ethnographic research project with the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust. In this PhD, I am investigating how small Scottish heritage organisations with social purpose navigate resilience and sustainability in their daily practices. By framing their mission and strategies in dialogue with the government and funding requirements relating to sustainability, heritage practices become practices of care. These care practices concern people, buildings, collections, memories, stories, and the environment. Small heritage organisations navigate dereliction, marginalisation, and environmental decline aiming to co-produce more connected and hopeful futures.

Hanneke Booij is an interdisciplinary scholar working in the field of heritage studies currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Stirling in collaboration with Glasgow Building Preservation Trust.

In this PhD, Hanneke investigates how small Scottish heritage organisations with social purpose navigate and configure resilience and sustainability in their daily practices and through the use of creative methods. Prior to the PhD, Hanneke completed an MSc Heritage at Stirling with a dissertation in collaboration with National Trust for Scotland focusing on archaeology resource management and sustainability on Canna and Fair Isle in 2018.