People-Centred Methodologies for Heritage Conservation

Rebecca Madgin is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow. Rebecca’s work explores the emotional value of historic places in the context of urban redevelopment initiatives in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.James Lesh is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne School of Design in the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage. His research examines twentieth- and twenty-first century urban history and heritage conservation.

• 1. Exploring Emotional Attachments to Historic Places: Bridging Concept, Practice and Method, 2. Attachment to Older or Historic Places: Relating What We Know From the Perspectives of Phenomenology and Neuroscience, Part 1: Cities and Towns, 3. Longing for the Past: Lost Cities on Social Media, 4. Lovability: Getting Emotional About Heritage, Dr Ursula de Jong, 5. Emoji as Method: Accessing Emotional Responses to Changing Historic Places, Part 2: Neighbourhoods, 6. Narrating Places - Blurring Boundaries: Co-Creating Digital Histories of Place, 7. Living in and loving Leith: Using Ethnography to Explore Place Attachment and Identity Processes, 8. Re-Creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotion, 9. Visual Research Methodologies and the Heritage of ‘Everyday’ Places, Part 3: Sites, 10. Building EGIS (Emotional GIS): A Spatial Investigation of Place Attachment for Urban Historic Environments in Edinburgh, Scotland, 11. Observing Attachment: Understanding Everyday Life, Urban Heritage and Public Space in the Port of Veracruz, Mexico, 12. It’s Only a Joke If You Don’t Take the Fitness Industry Seriously: Feeling Through the Archive of People’s Relationship to the Early-Twentieth-Century Gym, 13. Making Visible Attachments: Artists as a Lever for Highlighting a Sense of Place and Emotional Attachments to Heritage. Articulating Public Art and Urban Renovation in Porto-Novo (Benin), 14. Emotional Attachments to Historic Urban Places: Heart-bombing Heritage