新作坊

Landscaping heritage: toward an operational cultural landscape approach for protected areas in New South Wales

摘要：

This statement of design philosophy by American designers Charles and Ray Eames is relevant to current issues in the conceptualisation of historic heritage and the management of protected areas in New South Wales. Despite considerable Australian and international literature promoting the idea of cultural landscape as a management category, historic heritage within the NSW reserve system continues to focus on objects, sites and places rather than on broader landscapes. Consequently, historic heritage is often viewed as separate to, and disconnected from, nature and biodiversity conservation, as well as Aboriginal cultural heritage. The paper will map out the initial work of a project being undertaken by the Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW). At its heart, the project seeks to understand the context of historic heritage management within the NSW reserve system and to develop a cultural landscape-based conceptual frame-work for historic heritage conservation that sees all landscape as historic. Such a conceptual change is required if the integrity and 'legibility' of the material record contained within reserve landscapes is to be conserved.