AUDITING PLACEDNESS: LINKS & REFERENCES

COOLABAH Vol 11 2013 – Placescape, placemaking, placemarking, placedness … geography and cultural production ... CLICK HERE

COOLABAHplacedness – IMAGES – Online images in support of papers & essays in Vol 11 ... CLICK HERE

Community of Ownership & Interest: Landscapes ... CLICK HERE

Mapping LandsCape Ownerships ... CLICK HERE

MUSEUMS: Stakes Shares & Ownerships ... CLICK HERE

CULTURE & LANDliteracy ... CLICK HERE

THE REDreadTREE ... CLICK HERE

COGITATIVE OWNERSHIP: Boyd, W.E. 2012. ‘A frame to hang clouds on’: Cognitive ownership, landscape and heritage management. Pp. 172-198 in Skeates, R., McDavid, C. & Carmen, J, (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

COMMON GROUND (UK) .... CLICK HERE

Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship? By Robert Fuller ... CLICK HERE

Breaking Ranks: Modeling a Dignitarian Society, By Robert Fuller ... CLICK HERE

INTRODUCTION

‘Place Audits’ for geographic locations, community events, architectural spaces and places like cultural institutions are useful in identifying the dimension and diversity of the Communities of Ownership & Interest (COI) associated with, and attached to, ‘places’. Moreover, the various ways they are, and can be, understood and valued changes once they are described.

Equally, such audits are an effective strategy in discovering and articulating the layerings of interests, the cultural meanings and the various significances attached to these places, organisation and institutions.

However, it needs to be understood that such audits are by necessity subjective, ideally multidimensional and typically determined within various and variable cultural contexts and best described from within the COI itself.

THE PLACESCAPING

In essence a ‘place audit’ is about discovering and enunciating ‘the site’s’ placedness. Places are defined by the human interactions that goes on within them and that in turn shapes them, gives them significance, bestows the site/place/event with a ’form’ that is determined by the cultural realties brought to by its COI.

A ‘place audit’ is as much about – arguably more about – the articulation of the human relationships, and the attendant cultural realities, that give a place its form, functionality and utility.

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