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SUMMARY:PhD school seminar: Interrogating heritage and creativity
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Michael Herzfeld\, Florence Graezer Bideau & Peter Bille Larse
 n\nThis PhD school aims to introduce contemporary debates around heritage 
 and creativity. Descriptions of heritage\, guidance and norms rarely denot
 e the central role that innovation and creativity play across a wide range
  of different forms and types of heritage.\n\nFrom special sites and monum
 ents to everyday cultural practices\, emphasis in narrative terms tends to
  focus on connections to the past\, the nation and essentialized tradition
 s rehearsing long-standing dichotomies between authentic heritage and chan
 ge. Many times\, creativity\, innovation and the ensuing transformations o
 f both rural and urban spaces tend to remain hidden behind exposed artefac
 ts and official representations\, silenced by authorized heritage discours
 e or simply relegated as vernacular practices.\n\nSimilarly\, representati
 ons of cultural or ritual practices are often reified\, essentialized and 
 even commodified. Ranging from massive infrastructure construction\, specu
 lative architecture and total material transformations of heritage sites t
 o micro-level restoration and beautification techniques by local craftsmen
 \, creativity and innovation clearly take different forms\, values and pos
 itionalities in the context of heritage. Furthermore\, creativity is often
  at the heart of intangible cultural heritage such as adapting cultural pr
 actices potentially innovating in terms of both form and meaning over time
 . In addition to this\, there is a strong emphasis on heritage\, technolog
 y and innovation at our host institution\, EPFL\, offering further element
 s for consideration and inspiration.\n\nTargeting an interdisciplinary aud
 ience amongst others PhD students from urban studies\, architecture\, anth
 ropology and digital humanities\, the phd workshop also aims to build an i
 nterdisciplinary community and strengthen linkages between students.\n\nPa
 rticipants: Giacomo Alliata\, Pascale Bugnon\, Nathaniel Danishwara\, Doro
 ta Kozaczuk\, Phi Nguyen\, Sanja Platisa\, Helena Roux\, Pierrick Porchet\
 , Alina Volynskaya\, Mengke Zhang
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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