Material City collaboratory launched under Dan Hicks
Metamedia announces a new collaboratory in historical and contemporary archaeology which focuses on the city of Bath in southwest England. The project is under the direction of Dr Dan Hicks of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, the University of Bristol.
According to Dan:
"The project explores the complexities of the city's Iron Age, Romano-British, medieval and post-medeival pasts, and how they are enacted in the present through a diversity of contemporary activities - tourist, everyday, archaeological. It will explore the many contemporary walks and tours of the city. How everyday contemporary practices - shopping, for instance - take place in relation to the historical built environment How antiquarian and archaeological practices have engaged with the city's material remains since the eighteenth century - at the Roman Baths in particular. This is a project in the contemporary archaeology of a world heritage site - http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/428"