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Australia ICOMOS Articles and Papers page Last updated 6 May 2004 |
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This page offers downloads of articles and papers relevant to the work of Australia ICOMOS and its members. Please contact the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat at austicomos@deakin.edu.au if you wuld like to contribute a text. Make sure you check back regularly for newly added papers. To read these pdf files you will need to have the free Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. It can be downloaded for free from the Acrobat site. Click here: Adobe Acrobat Download 6 May 2004 Click here to download the paper: DOWNLOAD 20th
Century Heritage - Our recent cultural legacy A
monument to our recent past: By Helen Lardner Unfortunately the recent Australia ICOMOS publication, 20th Century Heritage - Our recent cultural legacy contained the incorrect version of the conference paper by Helen Lardner A monument to our recent past: The 1981 Apex monument, Geelong.The correct, and considerably revised paper is now avaliable for download. Click here to download the paper: DOWNLOAD Abstract In 1981, a monument was erected to commemorate fifty years of Apex service to the community. It was sited in Johnstone Park in the civic heart of Geelong, Victoria's second largest city, and the place of the foundation of Apex. The six metre high monument was gifted in perpetuity to the City of Geelong. Less than 20 years later, the owner wished to demolish the monument and replace it with a newly designed monument to commemorate Apex. The removal and replacement was supported by the National Executive of Apex, the Geelong Branch having been disbanded through lack of interest. There was little public outcry at the potential demolition which was reported in local media. But in the meantime the monument had made it by default onto the Victorian Heritage Register. In 1995, Johnstone Park was added to the Register. The statement of significance noted the Park's historical significance for its association with the 1838 Hoddle Plan for Geelong; the social significance as an outdoor entertainment area, particularly around the turn of the century; and the architectural significance for its association with three prominent architects who redeveloped the Park in 1916 and designed the 1919 bandstand. The registration identified six individual structures of importance within the Park including the Apex monument which was listed without a word about its significance. Last year Heritage
Victoria refused the application for demolition. This paper examines the
difficulties of assessing the significance of a 1980s monument. It considers
the future of a public monument that is without current social significance. Click here to download the paper: DOWNLOAD Making Tracks Conference Papers A wide range of papers given at the Australia ICOMOS Making Tracks conference held in Alice Springs in May 2001 are now available online. Click here to go to the Making Tracks page. Building the Australian Dream through the training of Maltese migrants
A scheme, thought
to have occurred between Australia and Malta during the 1920s in an endeavor
to attract potential migrants, was the transportation to Malta of an Australian
prefabricated wooden bungalow. It was envisaged that this bungalow would
greatly assist train potential migrants wishing to work in Australia in
the techniques and methods used in building and construction. Click here to read the article: Malta Bungalow AusHeritage Discussion Paper: New Directions for Heritage Exports 2002-2015 Click here to download the discussion paper: Australian Heritage Industry Abroad (part 1) Australian Heritage Industry Abroad (Part 2) Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts Online
Deakin University Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific Study into Key Needs of Australia's Heritage Collections (2001) The Report can
be downloaded here: Indigenous Cultural Landscapes and World Heritage Listing Proceedings of the Australia ICOMOS Workshop sponsored by the Australiain Heritage Commission held February 1995. Download: Indigenous Cultural Landscapes and World Heritage Listing (13mb) Prioritising heritage values: The Museum of Contemporary Art Aileen Yap Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy media & culture review online The heritage case
around the Museum of Contemporary Art reveals evidence of problematic
issues and values surrounding the heritage movement today. Concerns regarding
heritage continue to grow, as national identities become subject to global
information flows and the multinational configurations of investment,
production and marketing. Although our notions of heritage have broadened
in past decades, its present context still fluctuates between a variety
of values, presentations and interpretations. This has led to a somewhat
disorientated organisational arrangement of heritage management. Read the complete article: http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/cmp/mcr.html UNESCO Director-General Opens Year for Cultural Heritage The Director-General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, formally opened the United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage in Islamabad on 10 January 2002. Download his address here: Download: UNESCO Director-General Launches Year for Cultural Heritage 2002 (59kb) Caring for the Past, Managing for the Future: Federal Stewardship and America's Historic Legacy Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Federal Stewardship Report, 2001 This paper looks at the wealth of historic assets managed by the Federal Government and examines the successes and failures in their preservation. The report recommends executive and legislative action to remedy many of the problems plaguing the Federal Government's care of historic properties that it controls. Download the paper: Stewardship
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