21 June 2016
Cressing Temple Barns, Essex

Conservation is not limited to physical intervention, but also includes activities such as interpretation, which can increase the potential for the appreciation of the significance of historic buildings, and other cultural and natural heritage assets. This is a ‘taster’ workshop for anyone working in an interpretive environment who has had no, or only limited, formal training in the profession of interpretive communications. This course is ideal for architects, curators, planners, site managers, tourism officers and park rangers based at cultural, environmental and historic sites and visitor destinations. The course is hands-on, and will involve a classroom training session followed by a walk-about critique of the existing interpretation and visitor presentation at Cressing Temple Barns. Topics covered will include Tilden’s Interpretive Principles, recreational learning theory, the interpretive planning model, interpretive theme and objective development, ‘Who’s coming to my site?…Who isn’t!’ and evaluation techniques.

Crispian Emberson, founder of HDC, is a highly regarded international interpretation expert. He is a fully qualified NAI and NPS heritage interpretation professional with over 30 years experience working at a senior level within the international heritage tourism community.

During his career he has undertaken a huge range of heritage interpretation projects for thousands of clients in over 40 countries around the world. A light lunch will be provided.

Further information can be found here.
Book now by emailing traditional.buildingskills@essex.gov.uk

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