HERITAGE
INTERPRETATION
www.creu-ad.co.uk
Communicating local stories
Local interpretation
Local interpretive planning and projects help to ~
Deliver local strategies for ~
Tourism
Cultural development
Community regeneration
Build community capacity
Using local skills
Developing new skills
Increasing confidence
Creating pride of place
There us a long term contribution to sustainability through ~
Bridging cultural differences
Language
Highlighting local values
Environment
Setting a framework for the future
People
At its core, sustainability is about us – humans that interact
with and influence our broader environments.
So, when people ask us, ‘what’s culture got to do with
sustainability?’, we answer, ‘How can culture be separated
from sustainability?
University of New Hampshire, Office of Sustainability
http://www,sustainable.unh.edu/culture_sust/whyculture.htm
Distinctiveness is about particularity, it is rehearsed in the
buildings and land shapes, the brooks and birds, trees and
cheeses, places of worship and pieces of literature. It is
about continuing history and nature jostling with each other,
layers and fragments – old and new.
http//www.commonground.org.uk
Factories
Fair & Fairgrounds
Family names
Farms & farmsteads
Fell ponies
Fell running
Fells
Fences
Fens
Fen skating
Feral animals
Ferns
Ferries
Field barns
Field maples
Field names
Field patterns
Fields
Film locations
Fingerposts
Fish & chips
Flags
Flashes
Flatners
Floods
Fog & mist
Folktales
Follies
Food
Football
Footbridges
Footpaths
Fords
Forges
Fortifications
Freshwater fish
Frets
Fritillary meadows
Frost & frost hollows
Funicular railways
Furry dance
HERITAGE
INTERPRETATION
www.creu-ad.co.uk
Our name, Creu-ad is pronounced 'cray-ad'. It is based on
'creu', the Welsh word for 'create'. Our logo, a heron, is known
in Welsh as 'crëyr.'
What we do
Find innovative and creative ways to
express local identity and a sense of place
Write interpretation plans and find solutions
to interpreting natural and cultural heritage
and regeneration projects.
Facilitate community story gathering
workshops, interpretive art projects and
training.
Specialise in using the arts as tools for
interpretation
Work bilingually in English and Welsh.
Some Creu-ad projects
Sennybridge Past & Present
The Ash Path
Mining for History in Cwm Rheidol
Sennybridge Past and Present
The Brecon Beacons National Park Authority and other
partners asked Creu-ad to help the community in
Sennybridge to look at the changes that have been taking
place in lifestyles and local industries.
The project required interpretive media that could be
displayed in the village hall.
The results were a series of framed felt backed collages
made by people aged between 9 and 90. They were
unveiled at a packed community event.
Sennybridge Past and Present
The Ash Path
Senior members of the Cwmcarn community helped us with
their stories of life when there was still a coalmine above the
village.
They were mostly childhood memories of games they played
and ways in which they earned some pocket money.
This included gathering and selling blackberries &
wimberries.
The Ash Path itself is a well-used track that miners once
walked to work. It now has benches and artworks that
interpret the stories.
The Ash Path, Cwmbran
Mining for History in Cwm Rheidol
Creu-ad & Blaengar
This event was linked to Plwm or Lead, a Ceredigion
project to develop awareness of the lead mining heritage in
this area.
The purpose of the day was to gather memories, stories,
photographs and other material that could be included in
future interpretation projects.
It was important to engage with members of the
community and to find out what THEY want to do with this
heritage.
Techniques used were scanning material, sound recording,
story telling, talks, displays, memory mapping and lots of
talking.
Mining for History in Cwm Rheidol