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Workshop Responses

Q1 How does this definition meet (or miss) your needs in
the work that you do?
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It is useful as a broad, flexible policy statement that
leaves room for flexible interpretation and a more diverse
allocation of funding and resources
It accurately recognizes that heritage is not static, but
constantly evolving.
It should recognize ‘resources’ as both physical or
environmental features and cultural traditions.
It fails to effectively acknowledge power relationships
and conflicting claims to heritage resources.

FURTHER QUESTIONS
ARISING FROM DISCUSSION:
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Who decides what is given “cultural value”?
When there is a conflict of cultural values, whose story
gets told?
What are the ways, the processes, in which intangible
heritage can be conserved?

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