Roots and Futures: Scaling-up and sustaining co-produced, placed-based heritage with marginalised communities in heritage policy and decision-making

根与未来是社区企业、遗产组织和学者之间的合作伙伴关系，探索了谢菲尔德工业中心地带的基于地点的遗产。自2020年以来，我们一直与谢菲尔德的巴基斯坦、也门和索马里社区合作，分享记忆和故事，探索城市遗产的主题和优先事项。该项目表达了对过去在建立归属感方面的重要性的深刻理解，但对白人、北方遗产叙事的依赖为参与传统遗产空间和活动创造了障碍。社区表达了对更多过去知识的需求，这源于社区尺度上的共同空间感，对谢菲尔德过去更个性化和多样化的故事的渴望，以及在熟悉的景观中融入过去的更有创意的方式。该项目将设计和探索实现这些社区表达的需求的路线，通过与当地政府和遗产战略的地区决策者建立新的伙伴关系，将从“根与未来”中学习的知识融入其中。它将批判性地参与以社区为中心的地方遗产的支持和可持续性问题，通过共享现有数据和建立新的伙伴关系，将城市治理的主要利益相关者与新的受众联系起来，并测试以社区为中心的遗产研究模式，将其嵌入现有的城市治理结构中。在地方治理中纳入多样化和代表性的社区声音是影响所有决策者的挑战，但谢菲尔德作为庇护之城的地位独特地认识到需要拥抱我们城市日益增长的多样性。谢菲尔德也是英国第一个由志愿组织发布社区主导的遗产战略的城市，因此为一个项目提供了理想的熔炉，这个项目也可以在未来的其他城市复制。

Roots and Futures is a collaborative partnership between community enterprises, heritage organisations and academics which has explored the place-based heritage of Sheffield's industrial heartland. Since 2020, we have been working with Sheffield's Pakistani, Yemeni and Somali communities to share memories and stories and explore themes and priorities for the city's heritage. The project has shown a deep appreciation for the significance of the past in building a sense of belonging, but reliance on white, northern heritage narratives has created barriers to engagement with traditional heritage-focused spaces and activities. A community-expressed need for greater knowledge of the past is rooted in a shared sense of place at the neighbourhood scale, a desire for more personalised and diverse stories of Sheffield's past and access to more creative ways of engaging with the past embedded within familiar landscapes.This project will devise and explore routes to realise these community-expressed needs, embedding learning from Roots and Futures via new partnerships with regional decision makers in local government and heritage strategy. It will critically engage with issues of support and sustainability in community-centred place-based heritage, connect key stakeholders in city governance with new audiences by sharing extant data and brokering new partnerships, and test a model for community-centred research in heritage embedded within extant urban governance structures. The inclusion of diverse and representative community voices in local governance is a challenge affecting all decision-makers, however Sheffield's position as City of Sanctuary uniquely recognises the need to embrace the growing diversity of our cities. Sheffield is also the first city in England where a voluntary organisation has published a community-led heritage strategy, thereby offering the ideal crucible for a project which can also be replicated in the future in other cities.