From owners and authorized interpreters to people who care about cultural heritage and what they might see
From owners and authorized interpreters to people who care about cultural heritage and what they might see

Summary/Abstract: The representation of cultural heritage as property of descendant groups is inaccurate and should be replaced with notions inspired by the capability approach to well-being and the Faro Convention. The current administrative and scientific practices, pervaded by knowledge without piety, aiming more at dominating the past than at understating it, generate indifference towards the monuments and alienate the public, whose knowledge is devalued. The encouragement of amateur knowledge could bring more interest for cultural heritage and improve participation in public life.

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