Conferences

REGENERATION: Heritage Leads the Way

HERITAGE CANADA FOUNDATION 40th Anniversary Conference

in association with the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP)

October 31 – November 2, 2013

Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel

Ottawa, Ontario

Canada’s heritage conservation movement has made great strides in the last 40 years. It is now being challenged to respond to the changes taking place in Canadian society, culture, and economy: from the shift to smaller government and the drive for sustainable communities, to an emphasis on new conservation strategies and legislative tools. We are a diverse community and a new vision for heritage is emerging that will contribute to a new age in Canada. 

HCF’s 40th Anniversary National Heritage Conference will explore how older communities, cultural landscapes, buildings and intangible heritage are finding new relevance at this watershed moment.

Keynote Speaker

Graham Fairclough – Over the past two decades, Graham Fairclough’s work with English Heritage developing methods of historic landscape characterisation has placed him at the forefront of new landscape-informed and inclusive ways of ‘doing’ heritage. These new methods extend heritage concepts to the everyday surroundings of life, not only to special sites. Fairclough has worked and written particularly closely on the relationship of heritage with land use planning, on the integration of heritage with nature conservation and environmental protection, on the interaction between heritage approaches and sustainability theory, and on the wider social (and cultural) uses of heritage and heritage assets. The idea of landscape – in its widest conceptual sense, and as an intellectual framework – has become increasing central to his thinking in all these areas. He has worked with the Council of Europe on the European Landscape Convention, and on the Faro Convention ‘on the Value of Cultural Heritage to Society’, and has been a participant in several landscape-focussed European network projects, currently with a network called COST IS1007, Investigating Cultural Sustainability. Currently a free spirit in institutional terms, he is joint Editor of the British journal Landscapes, and a Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University (UK). Read Graham Fairclough’s article “New Heritage Frontiers” – see page 29.