TY - JOUR
T1 - Urbino belonging
T2 - Exploring place-based community heritage with digital & participatory methods
AU - Pernarella, Marco
AU - Koed Madsen, Anders
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©, Marco Pernarella and Anders Koed Madsen.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - What we understand and choose as heritage is a question rooted in our individual and collective notions of identity and feelings of community. Critical heritage studies highlight the links between heritage and recognition, emotions, and the everyday lives of people and communities. We introduce a methodology for a digitally facilitated and participatory study of place-based community heritage. Inspired by Participatory Data Design and Photovoice methodologies, the Urban Belonging App enables participants to communicate phenomenological aspects of urban spaces by sharing, signifying, and evaluating pictures of familiar places in the city. A quali-quantitative analysis of the app’s data best exploits its multi-dimensionality: the characteristic of being both countable and measurable and semantically rich and relational. The case study illustrates how the methodology is used to study community heritage in an exploratory and descriptive way. Most valued and recognised heritage places, as well as less conventional understandings of heritage in Urbino, Italy, are identified. Two participants show how heritage differently embeds with everyday experiences, memories, and feelings of community. Its adaptability and ability to capture the contested and phenomenological nature of heritage and to operationalise complex definitions of community qualify the methodology to enable systematic research on bottom-up, situated heritage values.
AB - What we understand and choose as heritage is a question rooted in our individual and collective notions of identity and feelings of community. Critical heritage studies highlight the links between heritage and recognition, emotions, and the everyday lives of people and communities. We introduce a methodology for a digitally facilitated and participatory study of place-based community heritage. Inspired by Participatory Data Design and Photovoice methodologies, the Urban Belonging App enables participants to communicate phenomenological aspects of urban spaces by sharing, signifying, and evaluating pictures of familiar places in the city. A quali-quantitative analysis of the app’s data best exploits its multi-dimensionality: the characteristic of being both countable and measurable and semantically rich and relational. The case study illustrates how the methodology is used to study community heritage in an exploratory and descriptive way. Most valued and recognised heritage places, as well as less conventional understandings of heritage in Urbino, Italy, are identified. Two participants show how heritage differently embeds with everyday experiences, memories, and feelings of community. Its adaptability and ability to capture the contested and phenomenological nature of heritage and to operationalise complex definitions of community qualify the methodology to enable systematic research on bottom-up, situated heritage values.
KW - community heritage
KW - digital methods
KW - Heritage studies
KW - participatory design
KW - quali-quantitative methods
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85164680697&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13527258.2023.2231909
DO - 10.1080/13527258.2023.2231909
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85164680697
SN - 1352-7258
VL - 29
SP - 939
EP - 960
JO - International Journal of Heritage Studies
JF - International Journal of Heritage Studies
IS - 9
ER -