I was reading an article today by Felipe Criado-Boado y David Barreiro, "El patrimonio era otra cosa" ("Heritage Was Something Else"), which emphasizes that the formation of the meanings of cultural…
Several years ago, I read John Schofield's (2009) description of "allocentric" versus "autocentric" heritage. He associates allocentric heritage with objective, scientific, fixed, and detached meanings and autocentric heritage with subjective,…
In 2012, my colleague, Eleftherios Pavlides, who teaches environmental design research in the architecture program at Roger Williams University helped spearhead the creation of the Environmental Design Research Education Knowledge…
One of the things I really love about the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) is the multidisciplinary nature of their conference. It's one of the few venues where it doesn't…
Since 1972, over 600 students have participated in the University of Florida's historic preservation summer field school on the island of Nantucket (Massachusetts, USA) known as "Preservation Institute:Nantucket" or "PI:N".…
Last month, I was invited to participate in the "Future of Preservation" meeting at the UMass, Amherst campus that was co-organized by Max Page from UMass, Amherst, Tom Mayes from…
Earlier this year the Council for International Exchange of Scholars awarded me a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Recife, Brazil from August…