Task:
Instructions:
• Each student must answer the compulsory question and two of the optional questions.
• There are nine optional questions to select from.
• Each question requires a 300-word response plus references. The reference list and in-text citations are not counted in the word count. Quotes are included in the word count.
Each student is required to create one document for their online test. The document should contain:
1. A cover page with name and student number;
2. Each of the three questions that are answered must be copied and pasted into the document;
3. 300-word response plus references beneath each of the three responses;
4. References should be listed at the end of each response (i.e., there will be three separate lists of references).
Canberra’s iconic bus shelters (see Figure 1), designed by the architect Clem Cummings, are not included on the ACT Heritage Register. Outline the following for the bus shelters:
a) What are their attributes?
b) What are their relevant heritage values?
c) What is the threshold (i.e., local, State/Territory, National, World) at which they could be considered significant?
d) What ACT Heritage criteria (see Appendix 1 attached) do they meet?
e) Should they be included on the ACT Heritage Register?
Optional Question 1
Heritage and national identity are intertwined in complex ways. In what ways does the listing of the Batavia Shipwreck Site and Survivor Camps Area 1629 – Houtman Abrolhos on the Australian National Heritage List convey Australia’s national identity? Are the heritage values of the place inclusive of all Australian cultural groups?
Optional Question 2
Argue for the inclusion of any ONE of the following properties on the World Heritage List, using the UNESCO criteria for selection available in Appendix 2.
• Alcatraz Penitentiary, San Francisco
• Catacombs of Paris, Paris
• Pearl Harbour, Honolulu
• Ground Zero, World Trade Centre, New York City
Optional Question 3
Explain how the management of heritage values across different threshold levels (local, National, World) could be difficult for the Port Arthur Historic site in Tasmania.
Optional Question 4
Was the incorporation of part of the structure from the Rookwood Cemetery Railway station (NSW) into the All Saints Church in Ainslie sympathetic to the original use of the building? Refer to the relevant heritage values in your answer.
Optional Question 5
Provide three examples of a ‘designed landscape’ and discuss the ways in which designed landscapes could be distinguished from relict landscapes, continuing landscapes or associative landscapes.
Optional Question 6
Caitlin Desilvey (2017) argues that people may appreciate the value of structures from our recent past better when encountered in the state of decay rather than when stabilized. Do you agree with this? Why?
Optional Question 7
Article 19 of the World Heritage Sustainable Development Policy, states that ‘World Heritage properties have the potential to enhance quality of life and wellbeing of all stakeholders, and in particular local communities’. Explain how this might be the case, citing one World Heritage property as a case study to illustrate your answer.
Optional Question 8
Does the destruction of the 46,000-year-old caves at the Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara region of Western Australia by Rio Tinto in 2020, align with or go against the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP)?
Optional Question 9
Digital technology is not simply a tool that enables us to record and understand the past, but it shapes how we experience cultural heritage. For some, their first experience of a cultural heritage place may be through a digital surrogate. Using an example from your own personal experience (i.e., a virtual reality experience, digital photography, social media etc.), explain how the use of digital technologies has shaped your own understanding and perception of that particular heritage place.
