Context

Communities & place: 1 day course 26 April 2012

Want to learn more about how to engage with communities to understand social and aesthetic values? Come to this new IPPHA course and learn about current approaches, issues and challenges. Convened by Chris Johnston and Denis Byrne, with other presenters including Steve Brown and Nicholas Hall, this is a great opportunity to understand the theory that grounds our practice, to learn techniques and assessment methods, and see the process from start to finish through selected case studies. To find out more, click on the PDF (below), or to register go to the IPPHA website: (http://ippha.anu.edu.au/)

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What is this thing called social value?

Social significance is just as tricky as love it seems. To help decode its inner secrets, Chris Johnston shared her ideas with the Context team and invited guests at our March knowledge sharing event.

Reviewing Wangaratta’s heritage precincts and rural places

Why is that line just there? Whether you’re on one side or the other can determine whether your house is in or out of a heritage precinct. Reviewing and redrawing those lines was just one of the tasks completed by the Context team as part of the Rural City of Wangaratta Heritage Review.

Repairing Echuca’s rare ceremonial arch

Ceremonial or processional arches are often ephemeral structures, celebrating an event, usually the visit of a dignitary. Such arches proliferated across Australia during the grandest ceremonial events – Royal visits and as part of Federation celebrations in 1901.

Revealing a rich history at Police Point

The policing of arrivals has a long and contentious history in Australia, and Police Point on the Mornington Peninsula is one of the historic places associated with this story.

Natica and Chris are Honorary Fellows

Chris Johnston and Natica Schmeder have recently become Honorary Fellows at Deakin and Melbourne Universities respectively.

Context’s senior archaeologist sings for Pugin

What do London’s Big Ben clock tower and Tasmania’s more modest St Patrick’s Colebrook church have in common; and with Context’s senior archaeologist Ian Travers? The answer is Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, an architect so revered by Gothic Revivalists that there is a festival named after him.

Jessie Briggs brings flair to work and home

Jessie Briggs is the Context HERMES aficionado, and is also the face behind Context’s most recent burst of beautiful GIS mapping.

Watermarks 2011 a great success

Context was delighted to be a sponsor of Watermarks – Water’s Heritage, the joint National Trusts of Australia and Australia ICOMOS conference held in Melbourne on 27-30 October. Context presenters were Chris Johnston, David Helms and Aron Paul, and Natica Schmeder was on the conference organising team.

Context’s singing archaeologist

When not working as a heritage consultant, Ian Travers is one of the principals in the Choir of Newman College. He has performed in festival programmes of Italian, German and French music from the late renaissance and baroque, as well as the traditional Advent Carol Service and compline.