Salford University’s SURF Centre has secured resources for scoping work on the relationship between cultural heritage and urban sustainability.

The work examines how the concepts and contexts of cultural heritage vary in relation to the built environment and what roles local governments need to adopt to protect tangible and intangible cultural assets.
Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in Europe (CHIME) project is funded by JPI Heritage Plus and will run between 2015 – 2017. This ground-breaking transnational research project explores how established understandings and uses of heritage are challenged through the inter-relationships between music, festivals and cultural heritage sites.
CHIME will undertake a sonic refiguring of the urban and rural landscape which feeds directly into issues linked to conservation and use, cultural tourism, sustainability, urban regeneration and community engagement. The focus on music and heritage sites, and particularly jazz festivals, is used as a lens for broader societal concerns.
This is an interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts and social sciences, including cultural organisations and local governments across Europe. CHIME is led by Birmingham City University and includes international partners in the Netherlands and Sweden. Gothenburg City Museum, Kultur i Väst (Culture in Western Sweden) and Julie’s Bicycle are Associated Partners brought in through SURF’s participation in the Mistra Urban Futures Centre. The SURF Centre has secured additional resources from Mistra Urban Futures to strengthen knowledge exchange and stakeholder engagement.

SURF outputs will include a state-of-the-art documentary and literature review on cultural practices in sustainability agendas; an anthology of practices and a policy briefing supporting local authority engagement in this area.

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