RIAI CPD Links: ‘Sense of Place’ Symposium

‘Sense of Place’ is a town symposium to support heritage-led regeneration hosted by Waterford City and County Council with the National Built Heritage Service. The venue of the Medieval Museum Waterford provides an opportunity for an immersion in the topic of the historic urban landscape, its understanding, conservation and management as the basis for revitalisation and renewal. Participants are invited to presentations of experts and practitioners working in this way and to experience first-hand the landscape character assessment approach, a new methodology devised with the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental policy UCD.

Day One of the event provides an opportunity to engage with the Waterford City and County Council team, to visit completed and live urban regeneration projects in the city and to experience how Waterford City and County Council have pursued and built out a vision for the historic city fabric and character over time.

Day Two focuses on the revitalisation of historic urban centres of all scales, through case studies that include the assessment of landscape character and qualities of a historic urban place as the basis for the re-making and re-imagining, retrofitting and revitalising of urban fabric to benefit present and future communities.

Programme learning outcomes

Sense of Place will present exemplars of projects concerning the re-imaging of historic urban landscapes, provide expert advice on approaches to research, community engagement and the necessary steps for successful project outcomes. The symposium will include a workshop on a methodology for carrying out historic urban landscape character assessment with the School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, UCD.

(Image extract from WONDER WANDER Waterford by National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, Waterford City and County Council).