LIFESCAPES
Cultural landscape approaches in conservation thinking
ABOUT
I am an architect and consultant in historic heritage management and conservation, with experience across public and private sectors in Aotearoa, Australia and the UK. My approach sees architecture as one aspect of broader cultural landscapes. I work with teams to respond holistically to environments, histories and people in ways that help sustain cultural identities and empower communities.
I am a member of ICOMOS (NZL581) and am a member of its International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL). I am also a registered architect with the NZRAB.
Carolyn Hill
MArch | NZRAB | ICOMOS
WHAT I DO
I provide heritage advice to policy-makers, developers, design teams and other consultancies, focusing on people-place connections that create lived-in cultural landscapes. My consultancy work has included historic heritage assessments, area-wide analyses, special character reviews, condition reports and conservation plans, and advice regarding heritage policy and strategic planning.
I provide detailed historical and architectural analyses of historic buildings and recommendations for their renewal and management, often as part of a broader design team. I prepare condition assessments and measured surveys, heritage impact assessments and documentation for maintenance and adaptive reuse proposals.
I am currently undertaking my PhD at the University of Waikato, and continue to write on subjects of social justice and urbanism, people-place attachment, public policy and biculturalism through a cultural landscapes lens. In particular I work with the Landscape Foundation to draw attention to the different ways individuals and cultures perceive landscape and place, and to the challenges we face in te ao hurihuri, a changing world.
I am a teaching fellow at the University of Waikato in Te Kura Aronui School of Social Sciences. I currently teach Environmental Planning 101 Future Cities, which provides a broad introduction and knowledge of the scope, complexity and integrated nature of environmental planning in urban contexts in Aotearoa and elsewhere.
