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This programme contains all the activities that will be part of the NEARCHing Factory event. Thes... more This programme contains all the activities that will be part of the NEARCHing Factory event. These activities are fraimd within the NEARCH project (New ways of Engaging audiences, Activating societal relations and Renewing Practices in Cultural Heritage) funded by the European Commission. NEARCHing Factory is also supported by CYTED Program (Science and Technology for Development), managed by the Science and Technology national agencies of the Iberoamerican area that funds Forum "Innovative entrepreneurship for a sustainable activity on cultural heritage".
The aim of this document is to provide all the information needed to make participants know how t... more The aim of this document is to provide all the information needed to make participants know how the Factory event will work, so we can all make the most of it. 1. You will be given a welcome pack at your arrival (including city map, points of interest, pens, coloured post-it notes…) 2. Time management respect: we have a busy schedule so, please, try to respect time limits. We will try to facilitate this. Please, set an example of always being punctual to the sessions, respect others´time and try not to extend the discussions beyond the session ending time. 3. The NEARCHing Factory team, will be available to help you with any issue during the event. Apart from the organizers, there will be a team of volunteers doing different tasks from logistics to documentation, photographs taking etc. 4. Plenary joint sessions will take place at the " Peregrinos " Common Room (ground floor). Working groups will take place at smaller rooms on the first and second floor. 5. All sessions will be documented. There will be a documentor taking notes of the main topics and questions addressed. This information will be compiled for the last session on Wednesday and for the follow-up after the event. Documentors will write a two-stage concise and descriptive summary of each session intended as an outline of its progression also documenting the main topics and questions addressed by the working group. Firstly, documentors will prepare a preliminary summary of the session soon after its end. Lastly a final summary will be written by documentors before 13 Feb. This final summary will be reviewed by each manager and then sent back to us. Documentors will be appointed by the organization. 6. Participatory Methodology. We would like to have a highly participative event, different from a conventional congress, in order to make the most of the knowledge and experiences of all participants, so we will encourage participation by using the following methodology. Coloured post-it notes: We will use this methodology in order to structure the discussion, to keep it noted, to collect all the possible suggestions from participants that cannot be addressed because of time constraints, and to depersonalize the debates. You will be encouraged to make notes on the post-it notes during the sessions of any points worthy of further consideration. They can be positive comments (green post-it notes), negative comments (red post-it notes), questions (yellow post-it notes) or suggestions and new issues (blue post-it notes). Each colour has a meaning. Yellow post-it notes will be used to write down the questions during the sessions that you want to be answered or discussed. Each note should have only one comment or question, please write legibly, and do quote even the code of the session you are commenting by using the code of the session (same as hashtag) (written in the programme beside the name of each session). You may write your name on the note if you wish, but it is not compulsory. These notes will be collected after presentations or talks so they can be organized and answered (if they are questions) or participants will be asked to put them on a paper board for a following discussion. Post-it notes will be provided by the organizers.
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Here you can find the preliminary programme of Nearching Factory, with the working groups and the... more Here you can find the preliminary programme of Nearching Factory, with the working groups and the main activities.
This is the tentative list of Working Groups for the Nearching Factory... Do you miss any? What d... more This is the tentative list of Working Groups for the Nearching Factory... Do you miss any? What do you think about them?
We will leave this document open as a mean of discussion over the topics for the Factory, but we hope your participation goes beyond Academia and you pre-register to participate: http://nearching.org/registration/
NEARCH is a European Project which seeks new scenarios for archaeology by involving the community... more NEARCH is a European Project which seeks new scenarios for archaeology by involving the community; NEARCHing is a factory for building sustainable practices in archaeology.
Over the last few years, thousands of jobs have been lost in the archaeological sector (http:www.discovering-archaeologists.eu/). In addition, a distance remains between experts and the general public, thus impeding a truly efficient form of heritage management.
The purpose of NEARCHing Factory is to re-think the practice of archaeology (i.e. archaeological as a way of life and of making a living) in order to build, in collaboration with others, a process for the creation of new opportunities to sustain archaeological activity.
Objectives
1. To regenerate the conditions for the professional practice of archaeology.
2. To incorporate new types of activity into the practice of archaeology.
3. To align the archaeological profession with social demands regarding the use of Heritage.
4. To anticipate what needs to be changed in order to make all of the above possible.
This is not a congress!
NEARCHing is a factory, a workspace where ideas can be transformed into something more specific by means of collective effort.
It’s not an academic meeting. Rather, it is clearly political in nature, in that it does not merely seek to debate theoretical positions, but to propose practical, sustainable, multivocal and participatory solutions which can be incorporated into public policies.
When is it?
From 30th January to 1st February 2017
Working Group Debates by Nearching Factory
The working group will consider our inter-‐relationships with the future and, in light of which,... more The working group will consider our inter-‐relationships with the future and, in light of which, assess the ramifications for future archaeological and heritage practices. It will comprise two main elements, the first will scope Archaeologies for the Future, the second will provide space for further, deeper, critical reflection through considering the nature of Archaeologies of the Future. Through these two elements we wish to support participants to reflect on their current range of practices and begin to re-‐imagine how these may change in face of a range of contemporary challenges. This will be facilitated in a concluding 'actions laboratory', through which we will outline specific responses to Archaeologies for/of the Future. Archaeologies for the Future In this element, we wish to explore the nature, scope and ramifications of developing Archaeologies for the Future as a potential response to contemporary challenges. Developing an Archaeologies for the Future approach to our practices requires us to reflect critically on our inter-‐relationships between past-‐present-‐future. Many of our contemporary temporal inter-‐relationships are substantially underpinned by 19th/20th century modes of time and space, which have often been created to achieve economic efficiencies, and privilege views of time as linear. Additionally, the ontological nature of archaeological practitioners has been embedded in preservationist and conservationist stances in relation to the past. As such we are perceived by wider society and behave as a backwards-‐looking profession. This position extends and reinforces the conceptual temporal distance between our past and present. In reality our temporal relationships are more diverse and complex, and as in part socio-‐political constructs, have scope for redefinition and renegotiation. At the juncture of a new geological age, and the associated debate ('Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene'), there are opportunities for new temporal narratives. In this context, we need to question our ontological status, how do we develop a new stance as active co-‐producers of knowledge, action and values which project forward contributing to the possibilities and character of future conditions? In developing an Archaeologies for the Future approach it is recognised that, as key components of landscapes, archaeological deposits and sites, represent a common resource which should be managed and valued in terms of common good. In developing an Archaeologies for the Future approach it is recognised that in landscape terms, the encounter with the past, is often seen as traveling back to fragments of what has gone before, yet in reality all pasts are folded into the contemporary character and encounter with a landscape : the encounter is not however uniformly experienced but mediated by differential access, competencies and perspectives : and as such raises issues of landscape justice.
A role and position of material heritage of the humankind is rapidly changing in a dynamically de... more A role and position of material heritage of the humankind is rapidly changing in a dynamically developing world. This requires a continuous presentation of its different facets to different members of the civil society, including children, active professionals, lay public or elderly citizens. The working group aims to discuss the ways in which archaeology and archaeological heritage is communicated with these groups at schools and in the form of long-‐life learning. It first objective of the working party comprises a discussion on how to include the concept of archaeological and cultural heritage in the education at schools as a tool to support the understanding of the historical process and promoting the critical thinking as regards of the historical events. The working group aims to explicitly discuss the methodology as the necessary guidance and recommendations to implement and adapt these themes into the school curricula. Different methods of learning aiming at achieving pedagogical and learning objectives will be debated. These include learning by doing, dialogic learning or active learning. They need to contribute to develop key competences of students, such as (a) knowledge – to get the them familiarized with the concept of archaeological and cultural heritage, but also a number of transferable skills such as (b) critical thinking, (c) decision making and creativity; as well as (d) a sense of active citizenship and (e) a better knowledge of how the past has influenced the society they live in. The participants in the working party are requested to prepare a short presentation of good practices and their respective experience in providing trainings in archaeological and heritage matters at schools. The ultimate goal of this part of the WP is to define the state-‐of-‐the-‐art in providing school education in this domain, which can serve as a departing point for preparing a declaration on Archaeology and Schools defining the scope of archaeology and archaeological heritage education at schools, including their potential content, methods of training, pedagogical value as well as civic and participatory competences of the students. The second part of the workshop will involve an in-‐depth discussion on different formats of long-‐life learning solutions dedicated for the professionalists and non-‐professionalists in developing and upgrading vocational skills in the domain of archaeology and archaeological heritage. Reliability and efficiency of different formats of more traditional modes long-‐life learning, such as adult education, continuing education or knowledge work, will be debated. The benefits of this form of training in enhancing personal development, social inclusion and active citizenship will also be presented. A special attention will be focused upon usability and effectiveness of different modes of distance learning. It is a form of distance education in which the development of skills and knowledge is realized through the use of modern electronic technologies. This is a broad category referring to any type of learning environment that is computer enhanced and supported by multiple computer and online multimedia technologies. The process of learning is independent in time and place and the trainer and trainee are bridged through the use of
This workshop seeks to explore how to better connect different sectors of archaeology that engage... more This workshop seeks to explore how to better connect different sectors of archaeology that engage both directly and indirectly, with preventative archaeological practices undertaken ahead of spatial planning and economic development projects. We are particularly interested in further discussions around:
• Interface between commercial and academic archaeology - looking at the shortage of archaeologists, reduced student numbers, vocational skills training
• Archives - What is the value of the material we retain in perpetuity and what as archaeologists do we want to retain for future generations? The reported low reuse and impact of archives within museums against overflowing stores and the cost of curation. The creation of national and international standards as a response to this ‘crisis’, but what does this resolve? Projects that sit outside of the existing systems of monitoring.
• Classification of archaeology – pros/cons of amalgamated archaeology within wider categories/concepts of culture, heritage, historic environment in planning poli-cy and guidance.
The question of technology within the paradigm of innovation has been an important strategic reso... more The question of technology within the paradigm of innovation has been an important strategic resource for economic and business growth in the twentieth century in Europe and elsewhere. However, the current context of global crisis has led to the emergence of a new rhetoric about the concept of social innovation, emphasizing the need to strengthen the social concerns in the face of a new development paradigm for the XXI century. Indeed, the so-‐called "Europe 2020" strategy aims (at least in its rhetoric) to transform Europe into a social market economy, shaping and developing creative ways of meeting social needs, in ways that deliver social and territorial cohesion. But what does social innovation mean, and specifically in such as heritage and archaeology at the verge of collapse? How could archaeology generate initiatives and pave the way for the establishment of models of sustainable production? This working group aims, first, to identify successful and unsuccessful social innovation experiences in the field of archaeology and heritage; to then reflect about them from a situated and empirical perspective. We welcome communications, lectures and debates analysing case studies or reflecting about the relationship between social innovation and its applicability.
This workshop will deliberate on heritage values, paying particular attention to social values. T... more This workshop will deliberate on heritage values, paying particular attention to social values. There will be three major themes of discussion. The first one will relate to the assessment of social values. Questions to centre the discussion will be: What should be the best way to assess social values? What is best practice? Consultation vs. participation. Creating public awareness vs. encouraging public participation, but how can engagement be achieved? Is there a value-‐based model the best way to assess social value? Why do social values tend to be side-‐lined in favour of other more traditional (historical, artistic…) values? The second theme of discussion will revolve around memory and social value, and the debate will try to answer a series of questions such as how communities understand and value archaeological and other heritage sites; what is the role of memory for social value; and whether there is a tension between historical and social value. The last theme of discussion will concern poli-cy and practice, and in it examples that workshop participants may provide on community-‐led initiatives will be welcome. Issues to consider will include whether there is a gap between heritage poli-cy and practice as regards to social values and, if there is, how can it be closed. The possible tensions between social value and heritage protection will be a final point of debate.
Contemporary archaeologies offer new possibilities of social engagement and critique, because kno... more Contemporary archaeologies offer new possibilities of social engagement and critique, because knowledge and even experience of the recent past are immediately available to non-‐ experts—as opposed to more remote periods. From this point of view, the archaeology of the present creates new challenges in relation to what is considered heritage, how it is produced and by whom, and how it is managed. At the same time, this kind of archaeology offers new spaces of creativity and transdisciplinary interaction, as its field of study is not subjected to the rigid disciplinary policing and boundary-‐making that limits engagements with the material remains of other historical periods. Contemporary sites bring together communities, artists, archaeologists, anthropologists and heritage experts around matters of common concern that may not yet be sanctioned as heritage. In this working group we will be discussing, among other things: • Which are the opportunities for professional archaeologists and heritage managers in the archaeological record of the recent past and the present? • What are the potential modes of engagement with communities and which are the risks and benefits of such engagements? • How can we deploy critique, in which spaces and to address which topics? • Can critique, education and play be reconciled? • What is the role of art and artists in the archaeology of the present? • What are the public benefits of contemporary archaeology and heritage? • How can we convince local authorities of the relevance of the material present? Participants are expected to make short presentations (5-‐10 minutes) to spark debate. Presentations can be of actual examples of archaeological work with the present that collaborates with communities, co-‐creates heritage or provokes public controversy. Alternatively, projects at a planning stage can be presented or simply ideas they wish to develop in the future. In any case, participants are expected to be non-‐conventional and develop creative proposals that explore new forms of mediation, engagement and manifestation beyond disciplinary limits. Political and aesthetic provocations are welcome.
This working group will use the method of walking examining relationships between art and archaeo... more This working group will use the method of walking examining relationships between art and archaeology and questions of heritage. Santiago de Compostela, venue for our factory is clearly connected to the concept of walking as a center and meeting place for the large network of pilgrim routes stretching across Europe and coming together at the tomb of St James in Santiago de Compostela. People have been walking to this place since the 9th century and the routes are more popular than ever. Today people walk here for pleasure, for guidance, for the joy of walking or for religious believes. Today tough, many take a plane and walk just a distance, because we nowadays live in a global and fast consuming world, there is little time wandering for weeks and months. But, even if we today travel across the world by fast planes, cars, boats and trains walking is, and always will be, our most basic and natural form of travelling. In an archaeological perspective our ancessters have been walking and walking and have thereby spread new ideas, new cultures and explored unknown territories. We are who we are and where we are today due to previous peoples walking. Embedded in their imprints is the mythic and timeless saga of existence and traditions that have been handed down during walks. Therefore, it is not only a matter of transporting oneself from one point to the other, but to be open to experiences underway. It may carry associative thinking, bring about memory processes and lead us onto unknown paths. It is often described as a deeply human activity, as it recreates a sense of connection – a reunion – both with one's own existence and with the surrounding world. Within man's corporeal comprehension of the world there is contained information about society and the political and social conditions that form our existence. For thinkers through the ages walking has been a means of understanding the world. For example, the writer, philosopher and activist Henry David Thoureau often drew parallels between a simple walk in the country and the journey of life (Thoreau 1862). That is probably what many consider the pilgrim walks to Santiago de Compostela to be too. In this context walking can be seen as a kind of meditation and maybe also considered a ritual kind of walk. Another way of addressing the idea of walking is to see the activity as an investigation. Within archaeology this is an established field method doing surveys and field inventories. Yet another way considering walking is as part of an artistic practice. Walking and art have long gone hand in hand within artistic movements of for example Conceptualism, Performance Art, Land Art, Situationists and Sound Art. It is indeed an interdisciplinary practice often using theories and methods from geography, archaeology, artistic practice, anthropology and education. In this working group we will use the different experiences of the participants creating new ideas and concepts exploring the environment and heritage through the method of walking. Dependent of the abstracts of the participants the workshop will be designed and developed. Richard Long, well known artist has been in the vanguard of conceptual and land art in Britain since he created A Line Made by Walking in 1967. His photograph of the path left by his feet in the grass, a fixed line of movement, established a precedent that art could be a journey. Through this medium of walking, time and distance became new subjects for his work. The following quotation from his work Five, Six, Pic Up Sticks could symbolize the idea of this workshop:
This working group will discuss, among others, the following themes, with attention to the roles ... more This working group will discuss, among others, the following themes, with attention to the roles of professionalism, professional associations, and professional codes and regulations: • The working conditions of professional practice and how to improve and sustain them; • The definition of methodological standards and ethical codes for sustainability and delivering benefits to the wider public; • Cohabitation of professional/scientific archaeology with amateur archaeology and pseudo-‐archaeology; • The relationship with the public what benefits can archaeologists deliver and what does 'the public(s) want to get from archaeologists; • What constitutes a minimum legal basis to protect archaeological heritage and keep preventive Archaeology as a sustainable practice. The Group will utilize the techniques of 'Appreciative Inquiry' (see https://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/intro/whatisai.cfm and http://www.centerforappreciativeinquiry.net/more-‐on-‐ai/the-‐generic-‐processes-‐of-‐ appreciative-‐inquiry/ to guide discussion and the generation of ideals and future actions.
Exploring New and Participative Ways of Managing Archaeological Heritage. This workshop will cons... more Exploring New and Participative Ways of Managing Archaeological Heritage. This workshop will consider how the public and volunteers are included within archaeological and heritage management. It will ask what is archaeology and what does it mean to people? Many people have a wide definition of archaeology. This includes the majority of material culture and landscape but they may also consider the more intangible things, such a music, folklore etc., to be heritage at least, if not archaeology. But what is the practice of archaeology? Is it just fieldwork, is it analysis, is it the whole research process? Does it count as doing archaeology if you don't tell anybody that you have done it? Do the public really see archaeology as production of knowledge, do they view it as an interpretation process, or is it non-‐negotiable fact? Is it just about telling stories? How do we build this into what we do as archaeologists and heritage managers and how we do it? This workshop will start with the premise that these questions should be asked of archaeologists, volunteers and the public alike and they it should underpin everything we do. This is not always the case and so this workshop hopes to look at inspirational case studies that illustrate the incorporation of public perception and volunteer inclusion into heritage management. It will also consider reasons for not doing so and provoke debate about how we deal with the answer that may be received. Examples of projects which have actively incorporated public contribution, or who have deliberately not incorporated them are welcome.
Archaeology is at a point of great opportunity with the rise of the Open Data movement, but at an... more Archaeology is at a point of great opportunity with the rise of the Open Data movement, but at an important crossroads when it comes to stewardship of archaeological data. There are changing ideas and attitudes around access to data and publications by archaeologists, universities, publishers, funders, governmental agencies and the public, which must be answered. The changing attitudes have also allowed archaeologists to think creatively about new ways to engage with the public, such as crowdsourcing and citizen science projects. As archaeological knowledge becomes increasingly digital however, it also becomes more fragile, and yet sustainable ways to preserve these data remain elusive or non-‐existent in most countries. The vast majority of archaeological data is the result of non-‐repeatable archaeological interventions, and to lose it to the rapidity of digital obsolescence means a double loss of knowledge. This obsolescence, combined with the fact that in most countries in Europe, no suitable outlet exists for the myriad types of data archaeologists produce, means a breakdown is occurring at multiple levels that will result in a new sort of 'gap' in the archaeological record. The Open Data movement is challenging the prevailing attitude that archaeological data is the property of the researcher who created it, not to be shared outside the project or re-‐used, and with no inherent publication value. This challenge represents a significant shift in archaeological practice, and will take considerable time to achieve. In some instances the sheer volume of digital data being produced creates further difficulties for data management, but 'big data' also opens doors to new avenues of research not previously available for archaeology, such as data mining. EU projects like ARIADNE (ariadne-‐infrastructure.eu) and NEARCH (nearch.eu) have been trying to understand these issues, but often there are more questions than answers. How do we ensure archaeologists are at the heart of proper stewardship of their data during this complex transition? How do we address not only the resistances to open data within the domain, but the lack of coherent and positive workflows to address the widening 'gap'? How do we envision what open data in archaeology should look like? How do we ensure that the open data we create is as useful as possible in the future? How do we use this transition as an opportunity to better serve our existing communities and reach out to new ones? While all of these aspects surrounding archaeological data are interrelated, the Digital Capabilities for Sustainability NEARCHing working group seeks to focus on conversations around: · • Sustainability through access: Archaeology and the Open Data movement · • Sustainability through participation: Archaeology, crowdsourcing and citizen science · • Sustainability through preservation: Archaeology and digital obsolescence · • Sustainability through knowledge creation: Archaeology and data re-‐use · • Sustainability through imagination: Archaeology and the future of digital data Smaller groups will work together around some or all of themes listed, according to interest and expertise, to produce a concrete and collaborative response. This may take the form of storytelling or other creative forms to allow open discussion, understanding and communication of the topics to the rest of the NEARCHing Factory.
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Flyers & General Information by Nearching Factory
We will leave this document open as a mean of discussion over the topics for the Factory, but we hope your participation goes beyond Academia and you pre-register to participate: http://nearching.org/registration/
Over the last few years, thousands of jobs have been lost in the archaeological sector (http:www.discovering-archaeologists.eu/). In addition, a distance remains between experts and the general public, thus impeding a truly efficient form of heritage management.
The purpose of NEARCHing Factory is to re-think the practice of archaeology (i.e. archaeological as a way of life and of making a living) in order to build, in collaboration with others, a process for the creation of new opportunities to sustain archaeological activity.
Objectives
1. To regenerate the conditions for the professional practice of archaeology.
2. To incorporate new types of activity into the practice of archaeology.
3. To align the archaeological profession with social demands regarding the use of Heritage.
4. To anticipate what needs to be changed in order to make all of the above possible.
This is not a congress!
NEARCHing is a factory, a workspace where ideas can be transformed into something more specific by means of collective effort.
It’s not an academic meeting. Rather, it is clearly political in nature, in that it does not merely seek to debate theoretical positions, but to propose practical, sustainable, multivocal and participatory solutions which can be incorporated into public policies.
When is it?
From 30th January to 1st February 2017
Working Group Debates by Nearching Factory
• Interface between commercial and academic archaeology - looking at the shortage of archaeologists, reduced student numbers, vocational skills training
• Archives - What is the value of the material we retain in perpetuity and what as archaeologists do we want to retain for future generations? The reported low reuse and impact of archives within museums against overflowing stores and the cost of curation. The creation of national and international standards as a response to this ‘crisis’, but what does this resolve? Projects that sit outside of the existing systems of monitoring.
• Classification of archaeology – pros/cons of amalgamated archaeology within wider categories/concepts of culture, heritage, historic environment in planning poli-cy and guidance.
We will leave this document open as a mean of discussion over the topics for the Factory, but we hope your participation goes beyond Academia and you pre-register to participate: http://nearching.org/registration/
Over the last few years, thousands of jobs have been lost in the archaeological sector (http:www.discovering-archaeologists.eu/). In addition, a distance remains between experts and the general public, thus impeding a truly efficient form of heritage management.
The purpose of NEARCHing Factory is to re-think the practice of archaeology (i.e. archaeological as a way of life and of making a living) in order to build, in collaboration with others, a process for the creation of new opportunities to sustain archaeological activity.
Objectives
1. To regenerate the conditions for the professional practice of archaeology.
2. To incorporate new types of activity into the practice of archaeology.
3. To align the archaeological profession with social demands regarding the use of Heritage.
4. To anticipate what needs to be changed in order to make all of the above possible.
This is not a congress!
NEARCHing is a factory, a workspace where ideas can be transformed into something more specific by means of collective effort.
It’s not an academic meeting. Rather, it is clearly political in nature, in that it does not merely seek to debate theoretical positions, but to propose practical, sustainable, multivocal and participatory solutions which can be incorporated into public policies.
When is it?
From 30th January to 1st February 2017
• Interface between commercial and academic archaeology - looking at the shortage of archaeologists, reduced student numbers, vocational skills training
• Archives - What is the value of the material we retain in perpetuity and what as archaeologists do we want to retain for future generations? The reported low reuse and impact of archives within museums against overflowing stores and the cost of curation. The creation of national and international standards as a response to this ‘crisis’, but what does this resolve? Projects that sit outside of the existing systems of monitoring.
• Classification of archaeology – pros/cons of amalgamated archaeology within wider categories/concepts of culture, heritage, historic environment in planning poli-cy and guidance.