The cultural landscape & heritage paradox

The cultural landscape & heritage paradox

by J. H. F. Bloemers

Part of Landscape & heritage studies

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The basic problem is to what extent we can know past and mainly invisible landscapes, and how we can use this still hidden knowledge for actual sustainable management of landscape's cultural and historical values. It has also been acknowledged that heritage management is increasingly about 'the management of future change rather than simply protection'. This presents us with a paradox: to preserve our historic environment, we have to collaborate with those who wish to transform it and, in order to apply our expert knowledge, we have to make it suitable for policy and society. The answer presented by the Protection and Development of the Dutch Archaeological-Historical Landscape programme (pdl/bbo) is an integrative landscape approach which applies inter- and transdisciplinarity, establishing links between archaeological-historical heritage and planning, and between research and policy.

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    How does Bloemers' central concept of managing "future change" rather than simply focusing on static protection challenge your traditional understanding of historic preservation?

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    In what ways have you personally witnessed historical or cultural landscapes in your local community being altered, overlooked, or successfully integrated into modern development?

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    Bloemers highlights the paradox of having to collaborate with those who wish to transform the historic environment in order to actually preserve it; how can communities balance the tension between progress and preservation without compromising their heritage?

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