‘Presence’ and ‘absence’ in themed heritage

Abstract

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Presence in affective heritagescapes: connecting theory to practice

“…Through multisensory activities, the presence of the past 'can move you, [and] you can only tell from its wake that it has been there' (Runia, 2006a, p. 310). The power of evoking the past in the present through multisensory means has also emerged in similar literature on time travel, which involves a much deeper immersion of role-playing in a specific event or period in the past (Goodwin, 2017;Holtorf, 2017;Samida, 2017).…”

“…Others have less explicitly discussed presence, but have used different words such as 'life awake' (Tuan, 1986), 'mindfulness' (Moscardo, 1996) or 'atmosphere' (Bille, Bjerregaard, & Sørensen, 2015;Bjerregaard, 2015;McCormack, 2013) to describe a certain level of awareness in the present moment and all the forces at play. Further work also discusses presence in terms of the absence of somethingwhere there is a paradox between the absence of presence and the presence of absence (Degen & Hetherington, 2001;Goulding, Saren, & Pressey, 2018;Wylie, 2009). Research using the concept of haunting, for example, explores 'the dialogical experiences found between subject and object, presence and absence, past and future' (Degen & Hetherington, 2001, p. 2).…”

Landing in affective atmospheres

“…Unlike in ‘Exorcism’, this is not an opportune moment, instead, we are faced with a ‘behind the scenes’ perspective of the consumption context, coming at it late, experiencing the residue of the ‘spirit of [the] place’ (Hill et al, 2021). Following Goulding et al (2018: 25), ‘absence is not simply a case of what is not there’, rather it is felt, absence therefore has agency, rendering the invisible, visible.…”

A Preliminary Field Work on Digital Heritage and the Use of Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage Management

“…Multidisciplinary scientific research and studies are being realised since then, mostly in communications, archaeology, heritage management, and tourism practices of VR (e.g. Gillings, 2000;Wheatley & Gillings, 2000;Gergen, 2002;Rose & Wylie, 2006;Barcelo, 2009;Smith, 2012;Farman, 2014;Liritzis et al, 2015;Bucher, 2017;Young, 2017;Goulding et al, 2018;Kidd, 2018;Rahaman, 2018;Doğan & Kan, 2020).…”