Abstract:

Fieldwork in heritage conservation research and teaching encompasses a broad array of activities, from architectural surveys and materials conservation to stakeholder workshops and digital mapping. It is the translational space where research questions and desired impact, value systems, and interpretations are generated. It is the space and moment of interaction, reflection, and analysis among practitioners, scholars, communities, and stakeholders. Fieldwork integrated into the wider process of conservation practice and has changed from a way to collect data and codify significance to the medium to facilitate impact and value for heritage resources. It now provides impact beyond the traditional divide of basic and applied research in the academy. Fieldwork in heritage conservation is now rooted in praxis.

This article argues that in the twenty-first century, fieldwork must fulfill that role of collaboratively bringing capacity to heritage stakeholders by adopting an applied research and outreach agenda. It is only through these means that heritage conservation remains relevant.

摘要：

遗产保护研究和教学领域的实地工作包括广泛的活动，从建筑调查和材料保护到利益相关者研讨会和数字地图。它是产生研究问题和预期影响、价值体系和解释的转化空间。它是实践者、学者、社区和利益相关者之间互动、反思和分析的空间和时刻。实地工作融入了更广泛的保护实践过程，并已从收集数据和编纂重要性的方式转变为促进遗产资源影响和价值的媒介。它现在提供的影响超出了学院基础和应用研究的传统鸿沟。遗产保护领域的实地考察现在植根于实践。

本文认为，在 21 世纪，田野工作必须通过采用应用研究和外展议程，发挥协作为遗产利益相关者带来能力的作用。只有通过这些方式，遗产保护才能保持相关性。