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Definitions Ideas behind Significance Significance as an art, not a science

INTRODUCTION. Definitions Ideas behind Significance Significance as an art, not a science Painting a place with a word-portrait. SIGNIFICANCE. The value of a heritage asset to this and future generations because of its heritage interest.

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Definitions Ideas behind Significance Significance as an art, not a science

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  1. INTRODUCTION • Definitions • Ideas behind Significance • Significance as an art, not a science • Painting a place with a word-portrait

  2. SIGNIFICANCE • The value of a heritage asset to this and future generations because of its heritage interest. • Significance derives not only from a heritage asset’s physical presence, but also from its setting.

  3. SIGNIFICANCE VS. IMPORTANCE • Significance is the term for all the heritage values of a place. • Importance is the weight that should be given to those heritage values.

  4. evidential historical aesthetic illustrative communal design from the potential of a place to yield evidence about past human activity. 36 Physical remains of past human activity are the primary source of evidence about the substance and evolution of places, and of the people and cultures that made them. These remains are part of a record of the past that begins with traces of early humans and continues to be created and destroyed. Their evidential value is proportionate to their potential to contribute to people’s understanding of the past. 37 In the absence of written records, the material record, particularly archaeological deposits, provides the only source of evidence about the distant past. Age is therefore a strong indicator of relative evidential value, but is not paramount, since the material record is the primary source of evidence about poorly-documented aspects of any period. Geology, landforms, species and habitats similarly have value as sources of information about the evolution of the planet and life upon it.

  5. simple ideas behind the words Research Narrative Emotion Togetherness

  6. Research the process of discovering things that we didn’t know before. where in this place might there be evidence yet to be discovered or recorded that is of research value?

  7. Narrative using places to tell the national story ‘x is a good example of y’ ‘x shows particularly well how people lived’

  8. Marine Court, St Leonard’s on Sea Carlton House Terrace

  9. Aylesham, Kent

  10. Emotion the power of places to evoke emotional response in people enriches human experience emotional responses fall into two broad categories – the beautiful and the sublime

  11. Beauty in symmetry

  12. Fortuitous beauty

  13. Anything that has a sense of infinity, of going on forever, of being bigger than humanly possible or more powerful than can be imagined would be considered to be part of the sublime

  14. a reaction of awe and pleasurable fear – a shiver up your spine perhaps.

  15. Above all, what exactly is it that causes your emotional reaction? The colours? The scale? The rhythm? The juxtaposition? Stowe

  16. Togetherness Communal value is not the same as community value

  17. places where the events of the past have brought people together to create or reinforce community Tolpuddle Culloden Battlefield

  18. simple concepts behind the words Research Narrative Emotion Togetherness

  19. Assessing significance is an art, not a science, but if we use the heritage values correctly we are going to create robust assessments of significance

  20. La Grenouillère Monet Renoir

  21. La Grenouillère Van Gogh

  22. Palette

  23. Phrases about research Phrases about narrative Phrases about emotion Phrases about togetherness STEP 1

  24. STEP 1 STEP 1 Evidential Historical The significance of … lies chiefly in … Communal Aesthetic

  25. STEP 2 Phrases about research Phrases about narrative Choosing the right words Phrases about emotion Phrases about togetherness STEP 2

  26. STEP 2 what weight to give any of the phrases we’ve put onto our palette? STEP 2

  27. STEP 3 Phrases about research Phrases about narrative Phrases about emotion Phrases about togetherness STEP 3

  28. We can now draw these phrases into a coherent whole: ‘The significance of the Dockyard Church lies chiefly in its internal completeness, which gives a good impression of what a Dockyard Church was like around the time of Trafalgar (arguably the Navy’s finest hour), and in its external design, specifically the strict symmetry and the contrasting colours of the brickwork, decorative stonework and the windows. In addition, its significance comes from its association with Edward Holl, at the time newly appointed Architect to the Navy Board, who designed the building to incorporate structural cast iron for the first time in a Dockyard building to support the gallery. The church is an early example of his use of structural iron in naval buildings.

  29. RECAP • Definitions • Ideas behind Significance • Significance as art • Painting a place with words

  30. ? Questions

  31. Evidential Historical The significance of the Burghley landscape lies chiefly in … Communal Aesthetic

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