Day School
Friday 17 June: Aberdeen 2022 Day School
Venue
Town & County Hall, Town House, Broad Street, Aberdeen AB10 1AQ (Entry to the building is via the main door under the Clocktower on Union Street)
Registration
Registration for in person Day School delegates.
NB: Virtual School delegates and Full School delegates already registered do not need to re-register.
Image © Fiona Newton
Keynotes
Address
- Angus Robertson MSP (In-person)
Setting the scene for Heritage on the Edge
- Griff Rhys Jones on ‘heritage on the edge’: In conversation with the IHBC (Recorded)
The IHBC’s Aberdeen 2022 Day School, on 17 June, offers options for both in-person attendance and ‘virtual’, online participation.
IHBC Chair David McDonald will chair the programme, with delegates participating ‘virtually’ being welcomed at 9AM.
At 9.15AM delegates and speakers in the venue will be welcomed.
To help delegates prepare for the talks, links and other learning and CPD resources will be posted here as they are compiled.
Regular ‘Question and Answer’ sessions take place across the day. To be sure to get your question to the top of the list, please submit yours as soon as possible HERE.
NB: Virtual Day School fees (or equivalent) will be reimbursed to the delegate with the most useful question submitted in advance, as selected by the Chair.
From 9.00 AM: Welcomes
Address
- Angus Robertson MSP (In-person)
Setting the scene for Heritage on the Edge
- Griff Rhys Jones on ‘heritage on the edge’: In conversation with the IHBC (Recorded)
The Challenge of New Legacies - Miles Oglethorpe: 9.50 - 10.20 (In person)
Miles is President of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH), and is also Head of Industrial Heritage at Historic Environment Scotland, the national body responsible for the built heritage in Scotland. He has worked with international partners on industrial heritage, notably in Norway and Japan, and led the team responsible for preparing the successful World Heritage nomination for the Forth Bridge in 2015. He also advises ICOMOS on industrial World Heritage related issues.
He has edited, authored and co-authored a number of books and papers relating to industrial heritage, and energy in particular.
Overview
Even before the arrival of North Sea oil and gas, Aberdeen was an important industrial city, with a thriving hinterland extending across north-east Scotland well beyond Aberdeenshire. However, change was already under way by the time the first oil and gas came ashore in the mid-1970s, with major consequences for the historic environment. This presentation focuses particularly on the industrial heritage of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, reflecting on what has been a period of major transformation.’
CPD Resources
The Heritage of Oil and Gas of Scotland
Capturing the Energy | The University of Aberdeen
The Heritage of Oil and Gas in Norway
Heritage – Documentation projects from the Norwegian Petroleum Museum
The history and heritage of Aberdeen
Doric Columns | The History & Heritage of the City of Aberdeen
Aberdeen’s Industrial History
Category:Town - Aberdeen - Graces Guide
TICCIH website
Historic Environment Scotland website
The Challenge of Climate - Ditte Lysgaard Vind: 10.20 - 10.40 (Virtual)
Ditte is a circular economy and design expert currently writing her second book Danish Design Heritage and Global Sustainability. She is author of A Changemakers guide to the future she is the founder of The Circular Way, Director of partnerships at Lendager and Chairwoman of The Danish Design Council as well as a member of the Executive board of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation and global SDG innovation hub UNLEASH.
Overview
Circularity is a tool to build within our planetary boundaries through transformation, reuse and recycling. I will talk of our experience and my philosophy on transforming the built environment by moving from despair, towards repair and to ultimately reimagine our existing building structures. I will also look at how, if we can’t transform them, we can make sure that materials are harvested and recycled.
CPD Resources
www.thecircularway.com
danishdesigncouncil.dk
www.lendager.com
The Challenge of Place - Laura Sinclair Willis: 10.40 - 11.00 (Virtual)
Laura is the Chief Executive of the Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, a small but globally significant group of uninhabited UK islands in the South Atlantic ocean. Formerly a member of the Senior Management Team for National Trust Wales, she is responsible for ensuring that the unique human heritage of these islands is managed and preserved sympathetically and appropriately, without inflicting any further damage on the islands’ fragile ecosystems.
Overview
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands is a remote UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, approximately 800nm South East of the Falkland Islands. The territory is home to a unique industrial heritage in the form of abandoned shore-based whaling stations and sealing sites, dating back to the 18th-20th centuries. Managing and preserving these unique sites, in one of the world’s most geographically remote and meteorologically inhospitable locations, is an ongoing challenge for the Government. This talk aims to summarise some of the challenges, as well as some of the solutions, to heritage management at the very edge of the world.
CPD Resources
5 minute outreach video – summarising the work of the territory and the government
South Georgia Heritage Framework & Strategy 2017
Live picture from the South Georgia webcam
South Georgia government website
South Georgia Association website
South Georgia Heritage Trust
New energy (Nuclear): understanding values in new heritage - Egle Rindzeviciute 11.40 - 12.00 (Virtual)
- Egle Rindzeviciute, Associate Professor, Kingston University): Heritage in the nuclear industry - Identification and understanding (Virtual)
New construction - supporting communities with new heritage - Dara Parsons: 12.00 - 12.20 (In person)
- Dara Parsons, Head of Designations, Historic Environment Scotland: Engaging with communities: Communicating values in modern places (In-person)
New roles - curating new heritage - Bjorn Lindberg: 12.20 - 12.40 (Virtual)
- Bjorn Lindberg, Head of documentation and Research at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum: Curating challenging heritage (Virtual)
Sustainable heritage - care and practice - John Edwards: 14.00 - 14.25 (In person)
- John Edwards, Director Edwards Hart Consultants and Professor in Practice Professor in Practice, UWTSD: Sustainable conservation in practice - Tools and standards (In-person)
New masterplanning in old places - Sandy Beattie: 14.25 - 14.50 (In person)
- Sandy Beattie, Aberdeen City Council: Masterplanning for Aberdeen’s City Centre (In-person)
Design/Retrofit - Sandy Halliday: 14.50 - 15.15 (Virtual)
- Sandy Halliday, Director, Gaia Group Ltd: 'A Short History of Good Ideas and their Design Impacts: Gaia, SEDA and more' (Virtual)
Fraserburgh: Layered investment in heritage-led town regeneration - Nick Brown and Christine Webster: 16.10 - 16.35 (In person)
Nick is a Chartered Town Planner and Architect who is well known in North East Scotland area being passionate about community, the environment and quality of life. He has received over a dozen national or regional awards for work in various fields, has made many successful applications for external funding, and has negotiated significant private sector leverage and volunteer time for NE communities. As well as being a founding member of IHBC and the Scottish Ecological Design Association, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquities in Scotland, an active member of the Scottish Vernacular Building Working Group, and is one of only a handful of architects in Scotland to be accredited in both Conservation and Sustainable Design.
Christine has led the regeneration and town centres team at Aberdeenshire Council since 2015. inspiring businesses, communities and individuals to improve their places. The place plans for north Aberdeenshire are economic, physical and social interactive interfaces which have delivered everything from a Grade A listed Victorian Glasshouse and bothy into a 3rd sector operated wellbeing hub, to a cinema, digital sector and seaweed projects. Building driven and dynamic partnerships is a speciality to achieve hard outcomes in localities where change is needed. Prior to working with Aberdeenshire Council, Christine delivered projects for Scottish Enterprise, in both Dumfries and Galloway and Fife, ranging from a national shipbuilding strategy, to renewable energy, food and drink and community regeneration in Wigtown and Kirkcudbright.
Overview
This ‘interview’-style discussion will centre around the benefits of taking a more strategic and heritage-led approach to economic improvements in one of Aberdeenshire’s more challenging conservation areas. Fraserburgh is an area of significant depravation, and has suffered economically not least due to its geographic location.
The talk will cover the challenges faced and the more innovative approaches to delivering improvements in an area where there are widespread and varied economic and social issues.
CPD Resources
Fraserburgh 2021 - Heritage Regeneration | Facebook
Fraserburgh 2021 Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme | Fraserburgh 2021
https://www.nb-planning-and-architecture.co.uk/
https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/business/support-and-advice/communities/regeneration-in-aberdeenshire/
http://publications.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/dataset/e5f9112d-9bfc-4a6e-b281-2ea185034514/resource/bddbb41b-3fcb-4e37-849d-19fe0a447af2/download/pifmay2020.pdf
http://publications.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/dataset/local-regeneration-fraserburgh
Heritage under a pandemic: funding survival and recovery in England - Ian Morrison OBE: 16.35 - 17.00 (In person)
Ian was appointed Director of Policy and Evidence at Historic England to help shape the future direction and strategies of the organisation and lead the delivery of its specialist services, strategy and central listing and research functions. Ian’s primary role is to champion and strengthen protection for England’s historic environment and to maximise its value to the public.
Ian was previously Chief Executive of the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) and prior to joining the AHF, Ian was Head of Historic Environment at the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). His early career was spent with Historic England (formerly English Heritage).
Overview
Ian will reflect back on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic and give some insight on the need for and design of the Culture Recovery Fund and its operation in England. He will also share some observations of what the pandemic has shown us and how we might use this information to improve the appreciation of the historic environment and how it is managed going forward.
CPD Resources
https://historicengland.org.uk
https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/closed-programmes/culture-recovery-fund-for-heritage-0
https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/culture-recovery-fund-emergency-resource
https://historicengland.org.uk/coronavirus/culturerecoveryfund/map/
Questions, answers and discussion on next steps: 17.00-17.30
c. 5.30 PM: Close of the Day School for all delegates
We are especially grateful to Aberdeen City Council for their support for the venue.
*All programme arrangements subject to change
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