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Around the Lighthouse: A Co-Creative Performance Fostering Innovation Within the Cultural Heritage Itself
No full textThe experimentation with innovative ways to enhance the accessibility, resonance, and meaningfulness of our cultural heritage is a cornerstone to contemporary museums’ development. The article explores this topic through an insight into the first experience carried out within the Open Atelier project, designed to test cutting-edge formats promoting new interactions among the audience, the museum, and its professionals. This experiment was realized through the cooperation among Art Museums of Skagen and Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali. It engaged a group of Italian artists in the development of a cross-disciplinary and co-creative process intended to turn a collection of historical photos into a new experiential heritage, capable of fostering innovative interplays among different places, people, and cultures. The paper offers a thorough illustration of this case-based experience, by systematically describing its objectives and operational framework, the processes that enabled it, and the results that were achieved, and by providing contextual insights aligned with current debates in the field. This initiative has the potential to become a lens through which to explore broader implications for innovative interpretations and uses of heritage, enhancing its accessibility and resonance for contemporary societies. Its critical observation aims to foster the debate, and thus to inform and stimulate broader practice and policy around the topic
Vinge and Jasonsminde–Two East Danish Settlements from the Second Half of the Late Neolithic
No full textThis paper presents two settlements from the second half of the Late Neolithic.Both are from the northeastern part of the island of Zealand in eastDenmark. Six and thirteen houses, respectively, were excavated at the sites.Remains of contemporary graves have been excavated close to both settlements.Based on analyses of the landscape, pollen data and grain finds, itis suggested that the subsistence of the two settlements was based on intensivecereal cultivation and stock farming. We suggest that two or threehouses on each site may have been inhabited contemporarneously. Thehouses, their date and the contemporary graves indicate that East Denmarkwas influenced by Southwest Sweden and the Early Bronze Age societies onthe Continent during the second half of the Late Neolithic
Making the Invisible Visible: The Applicability and Potential of Non-Invasive Methods in Pastoral Mountain Landscapes—New Results from Aerial Surveys and Geophysical Prospection at Shielings Across Møre and Romsdal, Norway
No full textShielings are seasonal settlements found in upland pastures across Scandinavia and the North Atlantic. New investigations in the county of Møre and Romsdal, Norway, demonstrate the existence of this transhumant system by the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages. Sub-terranean features in these pastoral mountain landscapes have been identified by remote sensing technologies, but non-invasive methods still face challenges in terms of practical applicability and in confirming the presence of archaeological sites. Generally, aerial surveys, such as LiDAR and image-based modelling, excel in documenting visual landscapes and may enhance detection of low-visibility features. Thermography may also detect shallow subsurface features but is limited by solar conditions and vegetation. Magnetic methods face challenges due to the heterogeneous moraine geology. Ground-penetrating radar has yielded better results but is highly impractical and inefficient in these remote and rough landscapes. Systematic soil coring or test-pitting remain the most reliable options for detecting these faint sites, yet non-invasive methods may offer a better understanding of the archaeological contexts—between the initial survey and the final excavation. Altogether, the study highlights the dependency on landscape, soil, and vegetation, emphasising the need to consider each method’s possibilities and limitations based on site environments and conditions
Røde ræv, røde ræv!:Ræv- og menneskenatur.
No full textGennem fire nedslag i tysk og dansk naturvidenskabelig og jagtlig litteratur i perioden 1754-2017 undersøger artiklen træk af den historiske relation mellem menneske og ræv i et flerartsperspektiv. Artiklen viser, hvordan forholdet mellem menneske og ræv udvikler sig fra tidlig moderne tid til nutiden. I den tidlige moderne periode optræder ræven som liminal figur og et mere komplekst og identificerbart væsen, der tillægges karaktertræk, vi som mennesker kan relatere til i en form for væsensfællesskab. I den post-domesticerede nutid er ræven fremstillet med poterne solidt plantet i dyrenes og naturens sfære – klart adskilt fra mennesket, men stadig i rollen som grænsefigur, der frit bevæger sig mellem dyrenes og menneskets sfære
