Translating heritage

Watch this intriguing look at heritage and domestic space – Jarrod Haberfield and Cristina Garduño-Freeman talk with Katti Williams and Kali Marnane about the house as heritage site.

Get started by reading the session description below and watching the trailer – Cristina Garduño-Freeman talks about the idea of simulacra and heritage.

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$30 Parlour Collective
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Translating heritage

The intimate space of the house is inextricably bound up with the processes of day-to-day existence. But what happens when that function is removed? How effective is architecture at storing memory? And how can it be remembered, or reimagined?

LAB 35 brings together practitioner-academics Jarrod Haberfield (University of Melbourne) and Cristina Garduño-Freeman (UNSW, Cottage Industries), whose engaging research and creative practice deal independently with the translation of the house as heritage site: from house-museums preserved in perpetuity, to small-scale temporary evocations of long-lost structures.

Cristina describes her work poring over the demolition books of the Darling Harbour resumptions, exploring the haunting photos of the now-lost buildings. In a “joyful, creative and playful” work, she crafted plaster models of some of these structures and placed them in the crevices along the Bondi to Bronte walk as part of the Sculpture by the Sea event.

In his presentation, titled ‘Frozen’, Jarrod takes “a quick gallop” through five case studies of house museums – Heide II, Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge), Lyon Housemuseum, Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia) and Ravenscar (Christchurch). Each project offered a different approach to the relationship between museology, art and domesticity.

The rich, fascinating discussion following the presentations posed and answered many questions about translating heritage and associated conceptual challenges. Buildings shift and change over time. What does it meant to ‘freeze’ a building at a certain point in time? How important is authenticity? What is the role of simulacra? How do we display a house in a new structure while keeping a legacy alive? And much more.

Watch this fascinating session about the complexities and creative challenges of presenting and representing domestic heritage, the potential intersections of museology and architecture, and the tensions and terrain between simulacrum (the frozen) and imagining (the melting or dissolving).