Historic Preservation as Change Management: Methods in Context

Ingrid Scheurmann discusses the significance of heritage preservation in high-density metropolises and analyses relevant historical theories and practices of conservation, repair and change management. She focuses on concepts like "Reparaturgesellschaft" (repair society, Wilfried Lipp 1993) and The Burra Charter (Icomos Australia, 1999) and their pleas for implementation of change mangement and participation processes within diverse urban contexts. The text highlights value-based questions and aspects of sustainability within the overall context of climate change and the need for transdiciplinary and transnational ideas for an understanding of preservation as a repair-, prevention- and modification-culture.