Social Impact Archaeology: Pontefract Castle and the Gatehouse Project
Archaeology is said to add value to development, creating a deeper sense of place, community identity as well as improving health and wellbeing. Accentuating these wider social values has been welcomed by a profession keen to broaden its public relevance and legitimacy and protect its seat at the ta...
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2021-03-01
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| author | Brendon Wilkins Chris Casswell Maggie Eno Jodie Hannis Maiya Pina-Dacier Harriet Tatton Johanna Ungemach |
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| description | Archaeology is said to add value to development, creating a deeper sense of place, community identity as well as improving health and wellbeing. Accentuating these wider social values has been welcomed by a profession keen to broaden its public relevance and legitimacy and protect its seat at the table in modern cultural life, but how much, if at all, do the public actually benefit from developer-led archaeology? Benefits to individuals and communities from archaeology projects are often abstract, intangible and difficult to attribute, and the discipline arguably lacks a satisfactory frame of reference around which it can express and design for these additional social values. Drawing on the language of social impact investing, this article will explore how the UK-based collaborative platform, DigVentures, has addressed this challenge. It introduces a 'Theory of Change' and 'Standards of Evidence' framework to account for the impact of development-led archaeology programmes, illustrating the causal links between activity and change through the case of the Pontefract Castle Gatehouse Project. It is complemented by a short documentary film exploring the spectrum of digital and physical opportunities for participation by the public alongside a team of highly experienced professional field archaeologists, demonstrating how development-led archaeology can be designed to accomplish far more than answer a planning brief. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5f00aada5bae4c58b48f3d179280764f2024-04-03T09:15:48ZengUniversity of YorkInternet Archaeology1363-53872021-03-015710.11141/ia.57.18Social Impact Archaeology: Pontefract Castle and the Gatehouse ProjectBrendon Wilkins0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-6888Chris Casswell1Maggie Eno2Jodie Hannis 3Maiya Pina-Dacier4Harriet Tatton5Johanna Ungemach6DigVenturesDigVenturesDigVenturesDigVenturesDigVenturesDigVenturesDigVenturesArchaeology is said to add value to development, creating a deeper sense of place, community identity as well as improving health and wellbeing. Accentuating these wider social values has been welcomed by a profession keen to broaden its public relevance and legitimacy and protect its seat at the table in modern cultural life, but how much, if at all, do the public actually benefit from developer-led archaeology? Benefits to individuals and communities from archaeology projects are often abstract, intangible and difficult to attribute, and the discipline arguably lacks a satisfactory frame of reference around which it can express and design for these additional social values. Drawing on the language of social impact investing, this article will explore how the UK-based collaborative platform, DigVentures, has addressed this challenge. It introduces a 'Theory of Change' and 'Standards of Evidence' framework to account for the impact of development-led archaeology programmes, illustrating the causal links between activity and change through the case of the Pontefract Castle Gatehouse Project. It is complemented by a short documentary film exploring the spectrum of digital and physical opportunities for participation by the public alongside a team of highly experienced professional field archaeologists, demonstrating how development-led archaeology can be designed to accomplish far more than answer a planning brief.https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue57/18/archaeologytheory of changeevidence frameworkevaluating impactpublic participation |
| spellingShingle | Brendon Wilkins Chris Casswell Maggie Eno Jodie Hannis Maiya Pina-Dacier Harriet Tatton Johanna Ungemach Social Impact Archaeology: Pontefract Castle and the Gatehouse Project Internet Archaeology archaeology theory of change evidence framework evaluating impact public participation |
| title | Social Impact Archaeology: Pontefract Castle and the Gatehouse Project |
| title_full | Social Impact Archaeology: Pontefract Castle and the Gatehouse Project |
| title_fullStr | Social Impact Archaeology: Pontefract Castle and the Gatehouse Project |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Impact Archaeology: Pontefract Castle and the Gatehouse Project |
| title_short | Social Impact Archaeology: Pontefract Castle and the Gatehouse Project |
| title_sort | social impact archaeology pontefract castle and the gatehouse project |
| topic | archaeology theory of change evidence framework evaluating impact public participation |
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