Built Heritage: Purposes and Pragmatism

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Please join us for this fascinating event exploring built heritage.

RSA Fellows and guests are most warmly invited to register for this event, which is one in a series of online discussions within the overall theme of “Heritage: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions”, the subject of a future conference.

Few of us can be unaware of the significant and varied challenges presenting those involved in heritage management, or in any type of business or project housed in a heritage building whether Listed or not. Overall, the event series will include discussion of diverse case studies, the need for critical issues debate by civil society as a whole as well as by heritage organisations, and will also involve one or two speakers from outside the UK.

Speakers

Audrey Carlin has experience in the delivery of heritage and regeneration projects. A Town Planner by profession, she has decades of professional experience, delivering over £50m of regeneration focused activity in Scotland. Currently Chief Executive of WASPS, she has also worked with two of Scotland’s first Urban Regeneration Companies – Clydebank Rebuilt and Clyde Gateway Wasps is Scotland’s largest provider of affordable high-quality studio, office and working space to the creative sector. Wasps supports 1000 artists, creative industries and cultural tenants across Scotland’s cities, rural areas, and Islands.

Matthew McKeague joined the AHF from the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT) where, as Director of Regeneration, he led a purposeful team developing innovative new uses for historic churches. Projects such as Quay Place, Ipswich and All Souls Bolton received national and international recognition. Matthew also developed work on social impact measurement, including CCT’s first ‘Theory of Change’, and developed a consultancy service to enable churches to access CCT expertise. He had previously worked in the Regeneration Directorate of Lambeth Council and as a consultant for the regeneration and economic development consultancy, Shared Intelligence.

RSA Fellow Dr Deborah Mays, also a respected Honorary Fellow of the RIAS, is Head of Listing at Historic England. Previously, she served as Director at Historic Scotland, Assistant Secretary at the Royal Incorporation of Architects and CEO of the Scottish Building Contract Committee. She has published extensively and lectured in and outside the UK, including Berne, Newport Rhode Island, Cracow, Dublin, Belfast, Oxford and Cambridge. Deborah is currently a valued member of the RSA Fellows’ Media, Creative Industries and Cultural Heritage Network Steering Group, and has had involvement in the Hopetoun House Conservation Advisory Panel and the Architecture and Place Committee, Built Environment Forum Scotland. She has also at times spoken on Radio 4 debating whether listing is cultural “bubble wrap” or “cautious care”. She is an experienced built and historic environment professional with capacity to advise on historic buildings, ancient monuments and historic landscapes and their values, evolution and potential. She is also an expert on future management and sustainable regeneration with an excellent record in problem-solving, motivational management and delivery.

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