This collaborative ARC Discovery Project led by Cressida Fforde aims to re-conceptualise heritage from a standpoint of reconciliation. In doing so, it will generate new understandings about how heritage and its management can contribute to reconciliation processes. The project will combine Aboriginal, Maori and Western intellectual traditions in order to advance theoretical understandings of heritage and to examine its reconstructive power.

The project will produce models for practical implementation, including new conservation and management protocols. The project’s investigation of a new approach to heritage has the potential for profound social benefit. The project team involves Cressida Fforde, Laurajane Smith, Daryle Rigney, Peter Stone, Steve Hemming, Paul Tapsell, Lia Kent, Greg Lehman, and Merata Kawharu.

Image: ‘understand, acknowledge, move forward’ from 2017 by Flickr user Matthew Perkins (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattyp/36397958104/). Disclaimer: image has not been altered in anyway.