Travelling Stories Conference - New Session

[David Roe]

NEW SESSION

Subscribers to OzArch may be particularly interested in a new session that will held during the Travelling Stories Conference in October.  It will address issues that are regular discussion points on OzArch and will allow for the canvassing of a wide range of opinions on a topic that is both topical and often contentious:

Interpretation and Public Outcomes in Consulting Contexts

It is generally accepted that public dissemination should be a key outcome of archaeological excavation. Consulting archaeologists are often faced with a range of opportunities, and constraints, when working on sites where public engagement during or after archaeological research or excavation has the potential to provide positive outcomes.

The general success of site open days, articles and archaeology events show that the public are interested in the volume and range of projects that consultants are working on around Australia. However, practical constraints such as costs, project timing, safety and/or access issues hinder this important component of projects. The dissemination of results and project information may also be stunted by client control over public outputs. This session seeks papers that address these issues and the broader challenges of the consulting arena such as: the role of heritage in urban design and planning; the language and legibility of archaeological information that should be communicated to public readers; or methods of evaluating our past successes and failures.

 

Please note that the closing date for submission of all abstracts for papers is August 14th !!

Conference details, updates and registration facilities are on the website at:  http://portarthur.org.au/activities/travelling-stories/

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