Museums, Sustainability & Growth

How heritage can help deliver the sustainability and planned growth agendas

Thursday 23 – Friday 24 October 2008
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery

As the government’s growth agenda for the region gears up, a recent conference at Norwich Castle, hosted by Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service, debated the issues. For a review of this successful event click on the link below.

• Conference Article

The conference brought together two strands of work in the current Renaissance East of England programme: the sustainability and growing community agendas. A full report from the first year of the Growing Communities project featuring the latest developments from some of the case studies presented at the conference has just been published - click here to download.

• Growing Communities: Museums and place-shaping

For more information on the background to both the sustainability and growing communities projects, click on the project briefs below.

• Growing Communities Project Brief

• Sustainability Project Brief

The keynote speakers included: Chris Smith (Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chair of the Environment Agency), Roy Clare CBE (Chief Executive, MLA), Maurice Davies (Deputy Director of the Museums Association), Andrea Stark (Executive Director of Arts Council England, East), Dr Victoria Johnson (New Economics Foundation) and Dr Simon Gerard (Carbon Reduction Project, University of East Anglia).

The addresses covered social, ecconomic and environmental sustainability as well as the challanges and opportunities presented by the growth agenda.

We are producing notes from these wide ranging speaches to provide this important information to a wider audience. The completed transcrips are available by clicking on the links below, further transcripts will be available soon.

• Chris Smith's Keynote Transcript

• David White's Keynote Transcript

• Notes on Maurice Davies' Keynote

To download the conference and case study programmes and the notes from the case study presentations click on the links below. We are hoping to update the site shortly with copies of the PowerPoint presentations from these sessions.

For further information about the conference and the work of Renaissance in this area, contact laura.matthews@norfolk.gov.uk

• Conference Programme

• Case Study Programme 23 Oct

• Case Study Programme 24 Oct

• Case Study Speakers Notes

• Alan Baxter: Encouraging communities to discover their past

• Andrea Stark: How to make art and influence people

• Ben Robinson: Archaeology, heritage and the Peterborough growth agenda

• Colly Mudie: Discovering our community of Queen's Hill

• Dien Luu: Maintaining a sustainable heritage

• Gillian Barclay: The role of heritage in growing Peterborough

• Fiona Talbott: Museums and sustainability

• Graham Fairclough: English Heritage change and creation

• John Moore: Making the case for sustainability

• Marie Kennedy: Feast of Fenland Project

• Mary Kent: Great Yarmouth Library

• Oliver Bone: New Communities Project

• Richard Kay: Thetford's growth challenges

• Simon Gerrard: Carbon reduction in the heritage sector

• Sustainability and a small museum

• Tim Heathcote: Traditional skills

• Vanessa Trevelyan: How heritage can help deliver the sustainability and planned growth agendas

• Victoria Johnson: A low carbon high well-being future

'I have found the conference very useful from case studies, to the range and quality of the keynote presentations.'

'Exceptionally well run and well-chosen speakers.'

'Wonderful event well thought out, well run, excellent speakers. Thanks for doing this!'

'An excellent conference - well organised really great presenters and discussion leaders.'

'It was excellent - lots of ideas and inspiration. Thank you very much. I will spread the word re messages learnt.'