Please join Joshua Berman for the next Jane Jacobs Lecture, Heritage Reanimated: Places, Objects & Memory. One of the most fundamental aspects of humanity is our association with figures - objects, people, and places that represent both an individualized and collective sense of ownership and meaning. Phenomenologically, it’s through objects and spatial associations that we come to find our way in the world. They provide a sense of orientation, anchoring points for our individual and collective sense of self. Points of contact occur between how identities take shape through our tending toward certain objects and spaces. Our moment of contact with these figures represents an energy exchange. The object or figure by itself though isn’t powerful; what makes it powerful are the values, emotions, and stories that we invest in them, and the ability to see and act through them. In simplest terms, the process of co-producing knowledge is the act of storytelling. Heritage Reanimated: Places, Objects, and Memory explores how a proposed shift in the act of historical production and collective engagement between people and the places they inhabit could promote history as a continuum allowing knowledge production to become a grassroots community-based activity.

This lecture is sponsored by Marywood University’s School of Architecture and the American Institute of Architects of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

AIA CEU Credit is available for this lecture.

This event is an in-person and virtual—in-person lecture that will be held at Marywood University School of Architecture, Shields Building. Register here for the online stream Space is limited but the event will be recorded and available on our website and YouTube channel afterward. 

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