Our Places;
Our Pasts;
Our Perspectives
For several years, we partnered with Corrymeela, Ulster University, Queen’s University, Belfast City Council and Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council to explore effective multi-disciplinary approaches to engaging with contested heritage.
The primary approach was partnership, collaboration and community building. The community that emerged offered space to think, reflect, imagine, create.
There is power in heritage - power to silence, power to transform, and power to belong
from the project evaluation, by Ross VeLure Roholt
Our Places; Our Pasts; Our Perspectives was the final phase of this partnership, enabling us to strengthen our methodology and establish a community of practice across the heritage and community development sectors.
quarto acted as lead facilitator of an accredited leadership course bringing together professional and voluntary practitioners in heritage and community development from across NI. Together with participants we interrogated how contested heritage is manifested in place and explored ethically-informed participative approaches to engaging with local communities in telling more inclusive stories about our past.