The Quayside, Norwich
Booking is now open for the conservation professional’s key annual training programme: the IHBC’s Annual and Day School, this year in Norwich in June and exploring ‘Cultural Connections: Conserving the diversity of place’, with early bird booking rates to end on 17 April.
To book and to find all the supporting background you need, please go to ihbc.org.uk/norwich2015
Day School speakers and sessions include:
- Sir Laurie Magnus, Historic England Chair
- Kate Clarke, Cadw Chief Executive
- Dr Sharman Kadish on Jewish heritage
- Darren Barker, on traditional skills
- Michael Morrison, on ‘foreign fields’
- Dave Chetwyn, on community connections
Annual School on-site study options include:
- ‘The binding agent – sensitive streetscape design and traffic management’
- The changing culture and place of local government
- Eclecticism and Originality – ten remarkable Edwardian buildings
- Modernism at the University of East Anglia
- Religious Reverence – The Medieval places of Worship
- Norman Nobility – The architecture of Conquest and occupation
- Doing different – Non-conformist Norwich
- The River Wensum Past & Present
- Norfolk and the Brecks – Conflicts of Interest
- The Merchants of Lynn and the Hanseatic League
- Rosary Cemetery
- Medieval Merchants – The medieval buildings of trade
Marking the launch of the website for the 2015 Annual School, IHBC President Trefor Thorpe said: ‘The launch of the IHBC’s School website and online booking is always a great moment in the conservation practitioner’s calendar as it represents the first step towards the major learning and networking opportunity for the year.’
IHBC Chair Mike Brown said: ‘As with every year, this year’s packed Annual School programme includes a Day School option, which is especially suitable for general practitioners, just as the longer option of the 3-day Full School offers a unique experience to those who want to immerse themselves in the school theme, the area and wider interdisciplinary networks.’
‘I would also like to thank particularly the collective of School sponsors and supporters, as well as our Branch volunteers, who have all come together to help make this school as cost-effective as it could be. Without that support we simply could not offer members and colleagues the great value School experience that we continue to do each year’.
Branch organizer Prue Smith said: ‘The built environment is dynamic, reacting to and influenced by transient people and populations that shape places through cultural change. Over time such change has helped create and adapt the multi layered and diverse historic environment that we have inherited, and that we now conserve for future generations.’
‘The Annual School will explore how we can develop our understanding of how cultural change has influenced development in the past and the contribution that it makes to the significance of heritage assets. It will consider whether there is a requirement for us to preserve this cultural change within the built environment. Considering how this can be achieved whilst also allowing for continuous shaping of place. And to what extent can the conservation of heritage assets contribute towards creating sustainable and successful places in which to live.’
Welcoming delegates to Norwich Prue Said, that the area ‘provides the perfect venue to explore these questions further and to provide a base to discover Norfolk’s own cultural connections with tours following the Medieval merchants, the Hanseatic League in Kings Lynn, the influence of the River Wensum as well as some of the county’s most prestigious landmarks and historic sites. During the medieval period Norwich was England’s second city and its mercantile wealth allowed it to become one of the great heritage cities of Europe. However its role as a social, economic and cultural engine at this time was far more dramatic and enshrined its cultural connections. We hope you will join us here.’
IHBC Education Secretary David McDonald said: ‘Each year the IHBC’s School provides our inter-disciplinary membership, and their colleagues and friends, with a unique opportunity to examine, explore and investigate current issues in conservation. At our School practitioners and advisers from all backgrounds can uncover current and future trends and priorities.
‘With the School’s learning opportunities mapped to our professional development models and membership criteria, delegates can be sure they will receive some of the best-targeted CPD around, and also get the best grounding available in their career progress or applications for IHBC accreditation.’
‘And do remember also that the Friday ‘Day School’ is a fully-fledged CPD opportunity in its own right, so anyone with any interest in the built environment or managing places has access to a unique and cost-effective learning opportunity. For those coming to the Annual Dinner, we’ll also have an opportunity to hear more about the Gus Astley Student Award winners’.
‘And of course, when seeking employer support to attend the School, IHBC members ought to use their personal development plan and CPD resources to highlight the professional value of attending this key event.’
IHBC Treasurer Richard Morrice said: ‘Costs this year have once again been kept as low as possible, so for example Day School delegate rates for IHBC members are the same as they were in 2009! And of course we now also offer a range of bursaries to support delegates in need of additional support.’
‘Bursary details are provided on the School website, but remember also that separate bursaries will be offered by some IHBC Branches. If you do need support please be sure to contact your local Branch as well to see if there are opportunities there.’
NB: Early bird booking rates apply until 17 April.
For the School website and to book see: ihbc.org.uk/norwich2015
For the Gus Astley Student Award see: gasa.ihbc.org.uk
For links to and feedback reports from previous Annual Schools see: IHBC Annual Schools
For sponsorship and delegate pack opportunities contact Fiona Newton at: projects@ihbc.org.uk
