Traditionally, heritage spaces and museums have tended to locate at historical city centre of cities, thus, strengthening the existing dynamics and limiting their potential impact on the more peripheral areas. At the same time, they have tended to prioritize certain groups and discourses, leaving aside other approaches that could be of interest to broad groups of society. A trend, however, that has gradually been changing.
In recent times, the implementation of cultural facilities in peripheral spaces or the promotion of elements linked to heritage, both tangible and intangible, in locations far from the most central spaces has become commonplace. These new propositions have contributed to reinventing the cultural landscape and to providing added value to areas that are usually far from the focus of society. A change that has contributed to endow these spaces with new social, political and economic functionalities. However, as in any recent process, this change has brought new opportunities, but also dangers due to aspects such as: the use of these elements, the repercussions that the redefinition of the cultural and social image can have or the massification.
The session will deal with these aspects and in particular aims to analyse topics linked to the new functionalities of heritage and museums. We will reflect on issues related to cultural sustainability, the role of heritage and museums in tourism, public management policies or the repercussions that various policies can have in terms of gender, ethnicity or class. The session is designed to present presentations by various authors.Presentations can be in Catalan, Spanish, French or English.

Daniel Paül (1)
(1) Universitat de Lleida

 
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