Changing the game: the case of cultural landscapes

David Jacques

doi:10.35784/odk.5503

Changing the game: the case of cultural landscapes

David Jacques

International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (United Kingdom)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2003-1616

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35784/odk.5503

Abstract

There are a number of thoughtful analyses on how the World Heritage Convention has progressed, notably by Jukka Jokelhito, and by Christina Cameron and Mechtild Rössler. They explain the principles on which the World Heritage Convention was based. It concerns the common heritage of the world’s most significant places – we would all be poorer if we lost them.

This paper concerns the ideas we adopt in our dealings on landscape. The subject of cultural landscapes has been a latecomer in World Heritage terms. It is not a closely defined subject like, say, ecclesiastical architecture, and it has connections to many other subjects. Adjacent to many, it is defined by none. It still occupies a slightly detached column at the edge of the world heritage spreadsheet.

It is not this paper’s intention to claim that the cultural landscapes community has been the initiator of fundamental ideas, but it has been touched by many from within and outside the World Heritage system, and in some cases has been instrumental in bringing about fresh thinking and change.

Keywords:

World Heritage Convention, WH, WHS, ICOMOS

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Published

2023-12-16

Cited by

Jacques, D. (2023). Changing the game: the case of cultural landscapes. Protection of Cultural Heritage, 1(17), 97–104. https://doi.org/10.35784/odk.5503

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David Jacques

International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes United Kingdom
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2003-1616

Dr. Jacques’s contribution to the history of landscape design has been profound. It has ranged over all periods since Tudor times, with seven books and thirty book chapters in British and foreign publications, and about 50 articles in British and foreign journals.

His best known books have been Georgian Gardens published in 1983 which demonstrated that there were many designers other than Capability Brown, and was on most garden history reading lists for 35 years.

Other notable titles include Gardens of Court and Country published in 2017 which provided for the first time a full account of the formal garden tradition in England 1630-1730. It was selected as an ‘Outstanding Academic Title’ by Choice, the publication of the American Libraries Association, and was shortlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2018.