Crafting the City: Promoting Heritage Awareness Through Craft Making in a Historical Town




Anna Kouhia, Marja-Leena Rönkkö

PublisherPenn State Libraries Open Publishing

2020

International Journal of Education and the Arts

IJEA

21

33

1

25

25

1529-8094

1529-8094

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.26209/ijea21n33

http://doi.org/10.26209/ijea21n33

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/50114670



This paper reports on a project designed to promote the understanding of the World
Heritage site of Old Rauma, Finland, with the help of craft activities. Through
fieldwork and an analysis of the data collected from two craft interventions, the paper
examines how craft making can serve as a medium to celebrate a sense of place and
inspire people to deliberate the role that heritage occupies in their everyday lives.
Based on the study, it can be concluded that attention needs to be placed on the
teaching and learning of creative practices in order to contribute to the makers’ perceptions of placeness and to sustain local development as well as to promote
heritage in a historical town.


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