B7: Everyday Heritage: weaving a relational heritage of cultural abundance
Tracks
7
| Sunday, November 29, 2026 |
| 2:25 PM - 3:40 PM |
| RH104 |
Overview
Stream: Participation, Community and Social Cohesion
Paper / Session Submitter
Professor Tracy Ireland
Emeritus Professor Of Cultural Heritage
University of Canberra
Everyday Heritage: weaving a relational heritage of cultural abundance
Summary Abstract
The ‘Everyday Heritage’ Australian Research Council Linkage project explores how heritage is linked to the concept of the ‘everyday’ and how engagement with the everyday might generate new opportunities to connect communities through heritage practice—to support more inclusive forms of heritage and broader intellectual and practical understandings of shared history and citizenship. This curated session, featuring First Nations, Queer and diverse cultural, digital and material contexts, presents case studies and examples that show how this form of heritage is and can be utilised to generate aesthetic engagements, forms of visibility, as well as economic and political recognition. It contributes to the overall conference theme of weaving relational heritage spaces, and to the sub-theme of ‘Heritage connecting people/Te taura here tangata’ to better connect heritage to affect, narrative, and identity’.
Biographies
Tracy Ireland is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Heritage at the University of Canberra and currently leads the ARC Linkage Projects Everyday Heritage and Nuclear Nation.
Qiong Wu is a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra and Research Assistant with the Everyday Heritage Linkage Project. Her research explores Chinese domestic animation production, with a particular focus on cultural and creative industries perspectives.
Ashley van den Heuvel's research focuses on visual culture analysis and is informed by her cross-cultural life experiences. She is a Research Associate on the Australian Research Council (ARC) Nuclear Nation Linkage Project and was a Research Scholar on the Heritage of the Air ARC Linkage Project.
Steve Brown is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra and a Special Advisor with GML Heritage. His research interests extend across cultural landscapes, everyday heritage, World Heritage, integration of culture and nature in heritage practice, Australian Indigenous archaeology, and the social value of heritage places.
