Course Syllabus
Course description
Management systems are as varied as the types and contexts of heritage places where they are used. They include a combination of institutional arrangements, legislative and regulatory frameworks, and conservation processes that, together, ensure the effective safeguarding of places.
This course aims to provide knowledge and skills for the design of heritage management systems that are culturally adequate, respectful of a multiplicity of values, and that contribute to sustainable development. Students will also become familiar with a variety of management tools and approaches, placing a particular emphasis on addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in heritage management to strengthen communities of practice and to promote change in the field.
The course is structured around the following themes:
- From conservation planning to management systems: development of the field
- How to? Approaches and design process
- Managing heritage places: from governance and policy to decision-making and implementation
- Working in multistakeholder and rightsholders contexts: participation and inclusion.
- Management tools: heritage impact assessments, sustainable tourism, public use, etc.
- Streamlining sustainable development into heritage management and conservation.
Students will explore and apply management approaches and tools by working on their own case study. These cases will provide a rich context for discussion by exposing issues faced in the heritage field and will allow for the analysis of pressures and challenges in real scenarios.
The main objectives of the course are to:
- Examine the range of management systems and planning models for various types of heritage places and critically examine how these have perpetuated (or not) systemic racism, inequity, and exclusion.
- Explore methodologies/ approaches and improve student skills in the design of management systems that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Contribute to efforts to strengthen communities of practice and promote change in the field of heritage management.
- Provide skills to be able to engage in a significant dialogue with diverse interest groups, associated with heritage, to develop heritage management systems that are culturally adequate, respectful of a multiplicity of values, and that contribute to sustainable development (in all its dimensions).
Course format
The course is designed to include lectures, case studies, role play exercises, participatory discussion, and student presentations.
Each student will select a case study to work on throughout the duration of the course to apply theoretical concepts. The expected outcome of the course work will be the outline design of a management system for the selected case.
Cases will provide a rich context for discussion by exposing many of the problems and issues being faced in the practice of heritage management and the pressures and challenges that can be faced in the design of a management systems. Student cases will be used to facilitate discussion and demonstrate how different factors affect decision-making in heritage management and to illustrate the potential range of options in the design of management systems.
Course requirements
- Readings & Class Participation: Approaches and processes for the design of management systems will be reviewed through discussions of selected readings, lectures, and case studies.
- It is expected that students will fully participate and contribute to group discussions.
- Outline design of a management system: Students will apply theoretical concepts through the outline design of a management system for their own case study.
- Each student will deliver an in-class presentations about their case at the end of the course.
- There will be one (1) partial submission on the selected case during the semester, as well as a final submission of the developed case.
Due dates
January 22 Summary of proposed case study (see assignment)
February 7 Partial draft of case study (minimum 1500 words)
March 18 Final submission of developed case study (minimum 4000 words + graphics)
Grading
Class Participation: 20%
Presentations: 30%
Case study: 50%
Course Schedule
January 17 From conservation planning to management systems: development of the field
January 22 Approaches and introduction to the design process of a management system
January 24 Design process for a management system
January 29 Design process for a management system (cont.´)
January 31 Monitoring, review, and adaptation of management systems
Guest speaker Ms. Li Hong, WHITRAP Shanghai
February 5 Managing places: from governance to site decision-making.
February 7 Managing places: role play exercise.
February 12 Working in multistakeholder contexts and inclusive heritage management
February 14 Working in multistakeholder contexts and inclusive heritage management (cont.´)
February 19 Management tools, sustainable tourism and disaster risk preparedness
Guest speakers: Ms. Li Hong, WHITRAP Shanghai and Mr. Rohit Jigyasu, ICCROM
February 21 Management tools: Heritage Impact Assessments, HUL, Management effectiveness and streamlining sustainable development into heritage management and conservation.
February 26 Student presentations
February 28 Student presentations and wrap up of the course.
Course Summary:
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