Social housing and working class heritage - for iPod/iPhone: Recent Episodes
The Open University
Would you consider a dilapidated seventies tower block as heritage? In England, some social housing developments have already been given listed status, a level of protection usually associated with castles, monasteries and stately homes. Others are considered as a failed experiment by an outmoded welfare state, fit only for demolition. In this album, we see working class residents of one such estate fighting for its survival. By doing so, they may be challenging some of our fundamental assumptions and preconceptions about heritage. The album also contains academic perspectives from Rodney Harrison, Lecturer in Heritage Studies at The Open University; and Alan Powers, Professor in Architecture and Cultural History at the University of Greenwich.
This material forms part of The Open University Course AD281 Understanding global heritage.
You can discover something of what it's like to study the course by using the downloadable 'activities' files to explore post-war housing and its conservation as part of the ‘canon’ of heritage, the ways in which decisions are made about which buildings are conserved as heritage and which are not, the relationship between heritage and a ‘sense of place', and heritage as a form of social and political action.
Iconic status or demolition? Social housing estates have had widely differing fates - which way will it go for the Carpenters' estate?
Transcript -- Iconic status or demolition? Social housing estates have had widely differing fates - which way will it go for the Carpenters' estate?
Shows campaigning by the Carpenters estate and the Excalibur estate to save their homes from demolition.
Transcript -- Shows campaigning by the Carpenters estate and the Excalibur estate to save their homes from demolition.
Residents of the Carpenters estate talk movingly about what it is about the estate that is important to them.
Transcript -- Residents of the Carpenters estate talk movingly about what it is about the estate that is important to them.
A sample of some of the ideas and case studies covered in the course AD281 Understanding global heritage.
Transcript -- A sample of some of the ideas and case studies covered in the course AD281 Understanding global heritage.
Transcript -- Dr Rodney Harrison of The Open University talks about the ideas in the film.
Transcript -- Professor Alan Powers of Greenwich University talks about the ideas in the film.
Transcript -- Dr Rodney Harrison of The Open University talks about the ideas in the film.
Transcript -- Professor Alan Powers of Greenwich University talks about the ideas in the film.
Transcript -- Dr Rodney Harrison of The Open University talks about the ideas in the film.
Transcript -- Professor Alan Powers of Greenwich University talks about the ideas in the film.
Dr Rodney Harrison talks about studying The Open University's Course AD281: Understanding global heritage.
Transcript -- Dr Rodney Harrison talks about studying The Open University's Course AD281: Understanding global heritage.
Dr Rodney Harrison talks about the audio and video case studies that are integral to the course AD281: Understanding global heritage.
Transcript -- Dr Rodney Harrison talks about the audio and video case studies that are integral to the course AD281: Understanding global heritage.
Dr Rodney Harrison, course chair of the course AD281 Understanding global heritage, explains the concept of critical heritage studies.
Transcript -- Dr Rodney Harrison, course chair of the course AD281 Understanding global heritage, explains the concept of critical heritage studies.