Do really the Audience's Views Efficiently Boost Built Heritage Conservation Policies?

Abstract

The role of the audience in re-manufacturing built heritage sites and formulating their conservation policies has often been outlawed by the full control of the site authority through its singularity in formulating these policies. Excluding the locals from efficient participation in setting up these policies is usually attributed by the authority to the vague role that they would precisely play. However, the rich body of ICOMOS Charters and UNESCO Conventions has frequently considered the locals as "real custodians" of these sites, legitimising their participation in drawing up heritage conservation policies. This is due to the diverse cultural potential that can be made by them for the conservation policies of these sites. This paper investigates the precise role that the audience can demonstrate within re-manufacturing heritage and constructing its futuristic policies. It is indicated that the audience"s views possess different motives culturally, historically and touristically that enable them to efficiently participate in re-manufacturing the architectural heritage of their traditional environments. Therefore, the public"s deep experience towards their heritage issues can revive the site with some practical ideas stemming from its reality.

Propuesta De Restauración en Las Cuevas De Los Reyes De Juárez, Puebla; Una Oportunidad Para El Turismo

“…Entoces se parte del supuesto que si con los integrantes de la comunidad Reyes de Juárez se realiza una sensibilización efectiva sobre la importancia de las cuevas como un punto importante, puede motivar a la comunidad a involucrarse activamente en su protección y mantenimiento. Al comprender la relevancia de estos lugares como parte integral de la identidad colectiva, los miembros de la comunidad pueden sentirse inspirados a contribuir a su preservación a través de acciones concretas (Jasim et al, 2017). La conciencia de la importancia de conservar los sitios históricos puede fomentar un sentido de responsabilidad compartida y un compromiso colectivo hacia la salvaguarda de estos tesoros patrimoniales (Muhamad, 2018).…”

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“…In fact, this often leads to ostensible reconnaissance of these meanings, and thus superficial ties with them that result from an invalid access of some very local cultural assets of heritage. An example of this comes from Angkor heritage where its policies, drawn up through an imported approach, led to ignoring the site's anthropological accounts including oral history, local traditions and beliefs across generations (Jasim et al 2017). Due to its incompatibility with the establishment of the site's cultural assets within heritage tourism, its policies have been reformulated according to a purely local-traditional approach.…”

“…Whereas this aim is apparently valid, still the tools for its achievement are perhaps worthless. If the site authorities represent one of the main two powers that should make decisions for the renovation, its local community is regarded the second power who can give valid solutions in this regard based on their uninterrupted deep correlation with the site (Jasim et al 2017). Therefore, if the demolitions perhaps indicate a clear lack of knowledge that the renovation team possessed about the site, this supposedly should redirect the process towards the engagement of the inhabitants.…”

“…Local participation of the inhabitants is often regarded as a vital pillar for setting genuine policies of heritage conservation owing to the diverse cultural potential that their knowledge may contribute to these policies (Jasim et al 2017, ICOMOS 2013a, 2013b. True deciphering of the site's histo-cultural story, as an interlocking conglomeration of specific sociocultural values, vernacular traditions and bygone events, and thus their realistic employment within the conservation policy, might therefore be far-fetched without the concrete engagement of the inhabitants (Salazar 2010, Park 2014).…”