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Web Conference 2020 Fostering Heritage Communities – Proceedings, 2Nd Ed Web conference 2020 Fostering heritage communities – Proceedings, 2nd ed. 1 Interpret Europe – European Association for Heritage Interpretation Interpret Europe Web conference 2020 Fostering heritage communities Proceedings 2nd edition 2 Web conference 2020 Fostering heritage communities – Proceedings, 2nd ed. To cite this document: Interpret Europe (2020) Web conference 2020 Fostering heritage communities – Proceedings, 2nd edition Witzenhausen: Interpret Europe ISBN 978-3-947745-08-1 Interpret Europe’s Conference 2020, Fostering heritage communities, was due to be held in Haapsalu, Estonia, from 8-11 May 2020, organised by SALM – the Foundation of Haapsalu and Läänemaa Museums. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the physical conference was cancelled and for the first time Interpret Europe hosted an online web conference in its place. The web conference included 35 presentations and workshops from participants, in addition to a selection of other activities, including a welcome address from UNESCO, four keynotes, three panel debates (covering the Faro Convention, participation and the impact of the coronavirus), ten round table discussions, speaker’s corner, and 31 short video contributions and podcasts. Themed entertainment activities were also provided for the three evenings. The full papers and abstracts of presentations delivered at the web conference are followed in these proceedings by the abstracts of presenters who had been accepted by the review committee to the programme for the Haapasalu conference but whom were then unable to present at the web conference. Their contributions to the theme of the conference are also acknowledged. The following participants submitted full papers to be published in the proceedings: Yael Bamberger & Eyal Mitrani Stuart Frost Friederike Hansell Manuela Hvratin Michael Jungmeier & Anneliese Fuchs Thorsten Ludwig Lesley Hatipone Machiridza Ave Paulus & Riin Alatalu Dimitra Siridopoulou Orsolya Szilágyi et al. Mirela Tase Elena Weber & Michael H Glen The abstracts of the other presentations and workshops are included after the full papers. All opinions expressed are the authors’ own and are not necessarily endorsed by Interpret Europe. All images are copyright of the individual authors unless otherwise specified. Compilation of the proceedings: Marie Banks Copy editing and proofreading: Marie Banks with assistance from Michael H Glen 3 Interpret Europe – European Association for Heritage Interpretation Contents Welcome addresses ......................................................................................................................... 6 Thorsten Ludwig, IE Managing Director ................................................................................................................... 6 Louise Haxthausen, Director, UNESCO Liaison Office in Brussels ................................................................... 8 Matteo Rosati, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe........................................... 9 Keynotes ........................................................................................................................................... 11 Opening keynote: The Faro Convention and heritage interpretation Kathrin Merkle, Council of Europe’s Head of Culture and Cultural Heritage Division .......................... 11 Other keynote speakers ...................................................................................................................................... 17 Dirk Gotzmann ................................................................................................................................................................. 17 Agnes Aljas (Estonia) ...................................................................................................................................................... 17 Lisa Brochu (USA) ............................................................................................................................................................ 18 Conference wrap up ........................................................................................................................ 19 Peter Seccombe (UK) ..................................................................................................................................................... 19 Full papers ........................................................................................................................................ 22 Behind the Scenes visits to foster peer learning in the heritage interpretation community Yael Bamberger and Eyal Mitrani (Israel) ............................................................................................................... 22 Developing volunteer-led LGBTQ tours at the British Museum Stuart Frost (UK) ............................................................................................................................................................... 27 Case study of the Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region: Together we are World Heritage! Friederike Hansell (Germany) ...................................................................................................................................... 36 Fostering active citizenship through heritage interpretation: The Istra Inspirit project Manuela Hrvatin and Nevenka Lorencin (Croatia) .............................................................................................. 46 Engaging heritage communities by citizen science – Considerations, experiences and lessons learnt Michael Jungmeier and Anneliese Fuchs (Austria) ............................................................................................. 50 The relevance of UNESCO learning concepts for the development of heritage interpretation Thorsten Ludwig (Germany) ........................................................................................................................................ 61 Minus us, it’s your white elephant: Old Bulawayo and the challenges of community participation Lesley Hatipone Machiridza (Zimbabwe) ............................................................................................................... 72 Empowering Heritage Communities. Rights-Based Approaches – Principles and Practice Ave Paulus and Riin Alatalu (Estonia) ...................................................................................................................... 85 Heritage approaches have their own past. How can we exploit this kind of experience?98 Dimitra Sidiropoulou (Greece).................................................................................................................................... 98 4 Web conference 2020 Fostering heritage communities – Proceedings, 2nd ed. The past and the future of the Roman military site of Călugăreni/ Mikháza Orsolya Szilágyi, Szilamér-Péter Pánczél, Katalin Sidó, Koppány-Bulcsú Ötvös and Csongor Lukácsi (Romania) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 104 The challenges of eco-tourism and perception among residents in Albania Mirela Tase (Albania) ................................................................................................................................................... 107 Translations must be meaningful, not just faithful Elena A Weber (Russia) and Michael Hamish Glen (UK) ................................................................................ 114 Abstracts of other presentations (web conference) ................................................................... 118 Abstracts accepted to the Haapsalu conference but not presented at the web conference 129 5 Interpret Europe – European Association for Heritage Interpretation Welcome addresses Thorsten Ludwig, IE Managing The second group is the one who had been Director preparing this conference since May last year, including lots of elaborate study walks to amazing Dear colleagues and friends, sites on the Baltic Coast – up until two months ago, when they suddenly learnt that the event in I’m sure you know those speeches starting with: If Estonia would not happen. You can imagine what we could have known in advance… I’m now this meant for them. I thank especially Karin Mägi, tempted to add to this genre. representing our organising partner, the Foundation of Haapsalu and Läänemaa Museums One month ago, when we decided to go for this (SALM), and Bettina Lehnes, as our former adventure, we had considerable experience with Conference Coordinator, for their dedication. Karin our webinar programme but we definitely didn’t will introduce SALM on the fourth day of the know what was involved in preparing a four day conference, and I hope that many of you will find web conference. What we did know was that your way to this session in order to acknowledge almost all who work as interpreters with people the great work they do. suddenly lost their income, that many lost their contracts, and that some even lost a friend or Our conference theme is ’Fostering heritage relative. When we realised that we cannot do communities’. Yesterday, I took a last pre- much to help others, we decided that we must get conference walk through a river valley in active and offer our community something Germany, close to where I live. High above that different than this crisis to focus upon. We really river, there is a castle, and five years ago, the didn’t expect that more than 150
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