Over the past two years, Open Heritage teams took a closer look on promising practices around Europe. The results of the case studies have been published as papers and short films, available to the public. Feel free to have a read or a look at this amazing collection.
Observatory Case (OC) videos are a key outcome of the OpenHeritage project. The videos are conceived to accompany and support the Observatory Case studies in a format that is more accessible and can reach a broader audience. They tell the story of each initiative through testimonies of their protagonists, highlighting the importance of both individual engagement and community spirit.
The OC videos had been produced in the first 24 months of the OpenHeritage project and will be featured in exhibitions, presentations and screenings, giving additional visibility to the OpenHeritage project and helping to advance its policy agenda. By May 2020, all 16 videos had been uploaded to OpenHeritage’s Vimeo channel and are available at the OpenHeritage website as well.
What are the Observatory Cases?
The 16 Observatory Cases at the core of WP2 provide a micro-level perspective to the research of the adaptive reuse of heritage spaces. The research of the OCs focuses on a contextualised understanding of how adaptive re-use works in practice, how the specific local circumstances interact with the larger institutional and regulatory framework, and how this interaction influences the outcome of the specific re-use projects.
The 16 OCs have been selected to reflect a diversity of geographical situations and heritage assets involved, and also to provide important insights and good examples in one of the three aspects of the inclusive model of adaptive re-use put forward by OpenHeritage: community/multi-stakeholder involvement, resource integration and regional/territorial impact. Besides the OC videos, a set of detailed studies have been produced about each case, available at the OpenHeritage website.
Preparations to produce the videos
Each partner working on OC studies was responsible to produce videos about their cases. For many partners, the video production process proved to be an important learning process about how to tell the stories of initiatives with audio-visual means, reaching audiences beyond their regular public. In order to prepare partners for the process, video making guidelines were produced both concerning the video formats and the preparatory measures. In written guidelines circulated among the partnership and a webinar organised in March 2019 to clarify details, partners were advised to organise their field visits to allow
The video format
In order to create a consistent set of videos with contributing partners, a recommended video structure and visual templates were prepared by OpenHeritage partner Levente Polyak and filmmaker Yilmaz Vurucu. A draft blueprint for the OC videos was presented at the Barcelona meeting in November 2018.
Partners were asked to produce 2 types of videos for each Observatory Case:
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