Designed for: professionals who plan heritage sites, such as architects, curators, museologists, managers. Though no previous experience in interpretation is required, it is necessary that trainees know basic planning principles.
This 40-hour course considers all kinds of heritage sites. Along Interpret Europe’s interpretive planning framework, participants experience all course content in planning teams, step by step at an original heritage site. Every day, they add new insights to their own planning proposals which they present to each other on the last day of the course.
The course content includes:
- Evaluating the site experience and interpretive services
- Practising participatory approaches, exchange with and inclusion of stakeholders
- Analysing the difference between facts and meanings
- developing interpretive themes, considering mental frames and universal values
- Planning engaging interpretive services, including settings and media
- Considering how interpretive services could be designed to be resilient over time
- Integrating aspects of sustainability and human rights into planning
- Exploring different ways of evaluation during planning processes.
