The module includes:

• a survey of the range of organisations which manage, curate, interpret and care for places and environments;

• analysis of the agendas, frameworks (legal and conceptual), pressures and priorities which influence the interpretation and /stewardship of place in practice;

• identification of, and careful study of, a selection of organisations with responsibility for the stewardship of place, in order to develop a core body of precedents;

• visits to organisations with responsibility for the stewardship of place (approximately 3 per semester – 6 in total);

• talks and presentations from practitioners;

• comparative analysis and critique of different practitioners and their methods/priorities, ethics and contexts;

• presentation and recording skills, enabling students to convey their analysis verbally, visually and through the compilation of a log-book.