20 February 2024 - 20 February 2024
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Online
Free
Heritage X aims to support knowledge exchange and collaboration opportunities across the five Universities based in the North-East of England (NE5) for heritage-facing challenges and solutions. The NE5 have been working collaboratively to develop a common understanding of each other’s research and strategic ambitions to leverage their respective institutional resources and expertise in heritage facing research and innovation, as an example across cultural and natural Heritage.
Cultural heritage event web
Find out more and sign up using the links below. Our series of lunchtime seminars will be online for one hour from 1pm and will feature:
Date: Tuesday 20 February, 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Register here: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrfu6srz4qHte6rRSwUiwZ9c2_cY7M05-L
Remote sensing has developed over the past decade so that it can be safely applied to heritage objects in their home environments, so the scientists can take the laboratory to the library or anywhere it may be required. The work of Team Pigment has shown that this can deliver new insight into the material production of medieval manuscripts, which will provide illustration for this talk, but the technologies and techniques developed in this project have far wider applications to the heritage sector and beyond. Future collaborative opportunities: As the talk will illustrate there are a diverse range of potential collaborations from environmental and archaeological site surveys with drone mounted sensors, image and data processing tools can be applied to forensic analysis of a host of materials (even stained laundry to prescribe the best treatment plan!) from cell imaging to detection of gunshot residue.
Date: Wednesday 28 February, 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Register here - https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kd-ivrjwvHdy9tDscVham5vs5Vzi4xtbr
MIMA’s exhibition People Powered: Stories from the River Tees (July-December 2023) began as a collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery.
It was acclaimed, including winning a North East Culture Award, for its storytelling, place narrative, community inclusion, creativity and reimagining of a river and its environments.
The exhibition led us to a bigger question – How do we tell the story of a river? – and into thinking about what comes next.
Date: Wednesday 6 March, 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Register here – https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpfuChrDosGdETbpPSVYBGLm7Q92QsIYYn
SeaScapes: Tyne to Tees, Shores and Seas (SeaScapes) brings together partners working within the natural, cultural and heritage sectors to reveal and better manage the ‘hidden heritage’ of the seascape between the rivers Tyne and Tees. SeaScapes Co/Lab is an experimental curatorial model of public engagement that brokers cross-sector collaborations between diverse coastal communities, multi-disciplinary artists and creatives, practice led researchers and marine and maritime sector specialists drawn from the SeaScapes consortia.
The three-year practice research led project aims to critically explore the role that art and curatorial knowledge and processes can play in supporting marine environmental protection. The aspiration is to co-create sustainable modes of coexistence and stewardship between coastal communities (both human and non -human) and their marine ecology and maritime heritage for greater social benefit.
I will share the rationale, methods and early outcomes of SeaScapes Co/Lab through the presentation of a selection interdisciplinary projects delivered to date. These include: Be the Sea (Durham Wildlife Trust), Blue Wave (National Trust), soundmirror and Whitburn Resonances (Tees Archaeology). These enquiry-led projects are engaging communities with their marine heritage through deep listening, immersive dance, sonic archaeology, photogrammetry, crowd sourced environmental data and algorithmic sound manipulation.
Date: Thursday 14th March, 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Register here - https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYodO6uqzkiHNf66Ih2Tr_Ok0VOm8uP0qv5
In her talk, Lisa-Marie will discuss the breadth and depth of the skills and expertise of Newcastle University’s heritage science department, focusing on the comprehensive suite of imaging and scanning technologies, enabling new approaches for understanding and accessing heritage spaces.
These short highlights are the start of an engagement programme to enable us to unlock more potential together and collectively use our strengths to support the challenges.
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If you have any questions about the Heritage X lunchtime seminar series, please contact Caitlin Davis at ris.support@durham.ac.uk
Heritage X, in partnership with all North East Universities, represents a new cross disciplinary, cross-sectoral, research-led programme, within which natural and cultural heritage is treated not only as a portal to our past, but a driver for challenge-led solutions for the future. Heritage X takes the North East’s wealth of ancient, medieval, industrial, and natural heritage capital as its inspiration. Combining our regional strengths to focus on these assets will unlock drivers for social and economic opportunities and change for the North East and beyond.
Open to all academics and staff at NE5 universities
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