The 7th National Forum on Historic Preservation Practice: A Critical Examination of the Next 50 Years March 19-20, 2016 To be held at Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Call for…
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,…
Second announcement ACHS 2016 call for sessions and papers VENUE The conference What does heritage change? is an initiative of the Canada Research Chair on Urban Heritage at the…
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…
Students in many graduate programs are faced with what is, at times, a daunting challenge of researching and writing a thesis. This is especially true when the thesis is empirical--in…
At Roger Williams University, where I teach in the historic preservation program, we give our masters' students the opportunity to complete an empirical (research) thesis or a capstone project. While…