All Outputs (10)

Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post (2024)
Journal Article
Hale, J., Hanks, L., & Simpson, C. (in press). Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post. DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research,

Whether it’s through sharing picture postcards or visitor-produced photographs of museums on social media, these processes of image sharing, often dismissed as trivial, are acts which create and sustain relationships between the visitor, museum, and... Read More about Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post.

Place through Time: Investigating Place Identity Language within the Temporal Dimension (2023)
Journal Article
Bennett, C., & Hanks, L. (2023). Place through Time: Investigating Place Identity Language within the Temporal Dimension. Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research, 2(2), 115-140. https://doi.org/10.55755/deparch.2023.19

After an in-depth discussion on space, place, placelessness and place identity through readings from Heidegger, Norberg-Schulz, Relph and Lynch, the work concentrates on Aldo Rossi’s Pathogenic and Propelling definitions. The paper aims to use these... Read More about Place through Time: Investigating Place Identity Language within the Temporal Dimension.

Embodied Time: Applied and Incidental Architectural Narratives (2022)
Journal Article
Davies, O., & Hanks, L. (2022). Embodied Time: Applied and Incidental Architectural Narratives. Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research, 1(2), 28-53. https://doi.org/10.55755/deparch.2022.10

In this analysis of storytelling through building, encompassing a search for practical applications for how future buildings can embrace the passing of time, narrativity has been categorised into: the ‘applied’ or ‘artificial’, meaning the constructi... Read More about Embodied Time: Applied and Incidental Architectural Narratives.

The impact of ‘seasonal urban event’ to the hosting city’s urban vitality: case study of Summer beach and Winter Wonderland in Nottingham, UK (2022)
Journal Article
Heo, W., Tang, Y., Liu, F., Hanks, L., & Xu, X. (2022). The impact of ‘seasonal urban event’ to the hosting city’s urban vitality: case study of Summer beach and Winter Wonderland in Nottingham, UK. Acta Scientiarum. Technology, 44, Article e57668. https://doi.org/10.4025/ACTASCITECHNOL.V44I1.57668

Hosting seasonal urban events in open public spaces has a significant impact on urban vitality. By reviewing the categorisation of urban events, this paper explains the charactersitics of ‘Seasonal Urban Event’ through time, scale, location, format,... Read More about The impact of ‘seasonal urban event’ to the hosting city’s urban vitality: case study of Summer beach and Winter Wonderland in Nottingham, UK.

Can politically oriented interventions in built heritage contribute to its authenticity? Erbil Citadel’s Babylonian Gate as a case study (2021)
Journal Article
Jasim, M. A., Hanks, L., & Borsi, K. (2021). Can politically oriented interventions in built heritage contribute to its authenticity? Erbil Citadel’s Babylonian Gate as a case study. Built Heritage, 5, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-021-00030-0

Today, the concept of built heritage authenticity is a projection screen for conflicting demands and thus a ‘contested field’. Short-sighted readings started to drag the concept behind different ill-considered treatises, in which some heritage aspect... Read More about Can politically oriented interventions in built heritage contribute to its authenticity? Erbil Citadel’s Babylonian Gate as a case study.

Repercussions of Singularity of Site Authorities in Making Heritage Conservation Decisions: Evidence from Iraq (2018)
Journal Article
Jasim, M. A., Hanks, L., & Borsi, K. (2018). Repercussions of Singularity of Site Authorities in Making Heritage Conservation Decisions: Evidence from Iraq. Built Heritage, 2(1), 77-91

Different global assertions have recently been made prohibiting the mono approach of decision-makers in formulating heritage conservation policies, due to many unfavourable touristic and political implications. The mono approach has led to exploitati... Read More about Repercussions of Singularity of Site Authorities in Making Heritage Conservation Decisions: Evidence from Iraq.

Do really the audience's views efficiently boost built heritage conservation policies? (2017)
Journal Article
Jasim, M., Hanks, L., & Borsi, K. (2017). Do really the audience's views efficiently boost built heritage conservation policies?

The role of the audience in re-manufacturing built heritage sites and formulating their conservation policies has often been outlawed by the full control of the site authority through its singularity in formulating these policies. Excluding the local... Read More about Do really the audience's views efficiently boost built heritage conservation policies?.

A comparison of Plurality Voting Sheets and Idea Rating Sheets in judgement-making (2016)
Journal Article

The public's engagement in museum projects is widely encouraged. However, public participation may also passively impact the relationship of museum and their publics if any existing conflicts cannot be identified and resolved. This paper organised a... Read More about A comparison of Plurality Voting Sheets and Idea Rating Sheets in judgement-making.

Narrative, Story, and Discourse: The Novium, Chichester (2015)
Journal Article
Hanks, L. (2015). Narrative, Story, and Discourse: The Novium, Chichester. Curator: The Museum Journal, 58(1), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12096

© 2015 The California Academy of Sciences. This article seeks to engage with the notion of "discourse," and to test and apply ideas from literary and film theory in the analysis of architectural-and particularly museum-space. It examines the complex... Read More about Narrative, Story, and Discourse: The Novium, Chichester.

Continuity and transformation: a civic heart for Chester-le-Street (2014)
Journal Article
Borsi, K., Hanks, L., & Khoshkholghi, S. (2014). Continuity and transformation: a civic heart for Chester-le-Street. International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, 9(1), 23-30. https://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v09i01/36397

Current urban policy approaches to town centres can be summarised through a cleaner, greener and safer approach. At the same time, the value of place and distinctiveness has been recognised as a cultural and economic asset. Public art is seen as help... Read More about Continuity and transformation: a civic heart for Chester-le-Street.