Description
A case study report (3,000 – 4,000 words, in font 11pt, 1.15-space layout, with visual illustration/photos/images) that demonstrates the student’s ability to apply appropriate theories to analyse and evaluate the selected cases. Student should first identify a conservation campaign or building conservation project as case study, and write an analytical case study report.
One Case Study (Hong Kong or in a place you are familiar with) (Preferably mainland China, please.）
Case Study must be part of the built environment, eg. A building, urban site/area, place, open space, park, infrastructure, etc.
Can be a Conserved Building, Conservation Project, Interpretation Project, Public Education Project, Art Project, in either physical or digital or mixed environment, related to heritage(s) in the built environment.
In the analysis, student should the concepts, ideals, cases, or theories discussed in the readings as part of the justifications or references.
In total, there should be at least three or four references from the readings or from other sources.
Use the case study to critically respond to the readings (eg. to provide counter arguments, to critically reflect upon, to update the views from the authors, etc.), or discuss the readings against the case study(s)
The use of diagrams, photos, drawings, sketches are welcomed
Introduce your topic, your choice of case study, and you method of analysis (200-300 words)
Introduce the case-study and the background (500 words)
Analysis and critical reflection (here is where the readings come in!) (around 4-5 paragraph; 500-600 words each; total around 2000-3000 words)
Conclusion/After-thoughts (300-500 words)
Tips on the Structure of the Essay
Citation (Chicago Format) is A MUST! All images and texts need to be properly cited.
Failure to do proper citation is an act of plagiarism.
Reading List
Bie, Plevoets, Koen. Adaptive Reuse of the Built Heritage: Concepts and Cases of an Emerging Discipline. 2019. Chapter
Bond, Stephen, and Derek Worthing. Managing Built Heritage: the Role of Cultural Values and Significance. United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Introduction
D’Agostino, S. Conservation and restoration of built heritage : a history of conservation culture and its more recent developments. CRC Press/Balkema, 2022. Chapter 2, 4
Cecilia Chu. “Heritage of Disappearance? Shekkipmei and Collective Memory(s) in Post-Handover Hong Kong.” Traditional dwellings and settlements review 18.2 (2007): 43–55.
Smith, Laurajane. Uses of Heritage. London ;: Routledge, 2006. Introduction+Chapter 3
Chun Chun Ting. “The Star and the Queen: Heritage Conservation and the Emergence of a New Hong Kong Subject.” Modern Chinese literature and culture 25.2 (2013): 80–129.
Bond, Stephen, and Derek Worthing. Managing Built Heritage : the Role of Cultural Values and Significance. Second edition. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Chapter 4
Hilary du Cros, Yok-shiu F. Lee, Alexandra Sauvigrain-McClelland, Euphemia Chow and David Lung, “The Pearl River Delta – One region, three systems”, in Du, C. H., & Lee, Y. F. (Eds.). Cultural heritage management in china : Preserving the cities of the pearl river delta. (Taylor & Francis Group, 2007).
Institute of Conservation, Code Of Conduct, Nov 2014
Heritage as Hologram,” in W. Logan, ed., The Disappearing Asian City: Protecting Asia’s Urban Heritage in a Globalizing World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp.185–207. (Online)
Bond, Stephen, and Derek Worthing. Managing Built Heritage : the Role of Cultural Values and Significance. Second edition. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Chapter 3
Smith, Laurajane. Uses of Heritage. London ;: Routledge, 2006., part 1
Staiff, Russell. Re-Imagining Heritage Interpretation Enchanting the Past-Future. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2014. Prologue (whole book is interesting and worth reading, if you have the time)
Rössler, Mechtild & Eloundou, Lazare. “Reflecting on the crisis World Heritage places, museums and heritage interpretation” in World Heritage – Interpretation and COVID-19. Pp22-27.
Uzzell, DL and Ballantyne, R. (1998) „Heritage that Hurts: Interpretation In A Post-Modern World‟ in DL Uzzell and R. Ballantyne (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Heritage and Environmental Interpretation: Problems and Prospects, London: The Stationery Office. pp 152-171
Jeff Malpas (2008) New Media, Cultural Heritage and the Sense of Place: Mapping the Conceptual Ground, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 14:3, 197-209,
Giaccardi, Elisa. Heritage and Social Media. (New York: Routledge, 2012) (online)
Yung, Esther H.K., and Edwin H.W. Chan. “Problem Issues of Public Participation in Built-Heritage Conservation: Two Controversial Cases in Hong Kong.” Habitat international 35, no. 3 (2011): 457–466.
Dameria, Christin, Roos Akbar, and Petrus Natalivan Indradjati. “Whose Sense of Place? Re-Thinking Place Concept and Urban Heritage Conservation in Social Media Era.” IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 158, no. 1 (2018).
Potgieter, Mabe. “The Future of Accessing Our Past”. 8th Business & Management Conference, Venice. (2018).
Historic England. Heritage Counts 2018 (Heritage in Commercial Use). (London: 2018)
Darko Babić (ed.). Heritage as a Development Mediator: Interpretation and Management. (Croatia, Zagreb:????)
Malpas, Jeff. “New Media, Cultural Heritage and the Sense of Place: Mapping the Conceptual Ground.” International journal of heritage studies : IJHS 14, no. 3 (2008): 197–209.
Kocsis, A. & Kenderdine, S. (2015). I sho u: An innovative method for museum visitor evaluation. In H. Din & S. Wu (Eds.), Digital culture and heritage: Strategy and implementation (pp. 197–218). Singapore, New Jersey and London: World Scientific.
Kenderdine, S. & Shaw, J. (2015). A Cultural Heritage Panorama: Trajectories in Embodied Museography. In H. Din & S. Wu (Eds.), Digital culture and heritage: Strategy and implementation (pp. 197–218). Singapore, New Jersey and London: World Scientific.
Lewi, Smith, Lehn, Cooke. The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices: 1.Cameron, Fiona. Theorising heritage collection digitisations in global computational infrastructures (pp55) 2. Marchant, Alicia. Mapping an archive of emotions: place, memory and the affective histories of Perth’s riverscape (pp471)
