Places for Gifting
These blogs are self-learning models for people to create photo-diaries and focus on the importance of historic, social and material connections in belonging to place. The concept of a “gift” is deployed to understand how places are cared for by people, families and community groups over time. The idea is to explore the development of tangible and intangible connections between past, present and future people and places. An understanding of place as an inalienable gift may create a moral duty to nurture and pass on places to subsequent generations. A gift economy refers to economic activity characterised by offering services and goods to other members of the community without the expectation of monetary reward. Giving things to other people may be based on pure altruism, a wish to gain status in society, the hope of reciprocal gifts in the future or out of a sense of mutual obligation. More about gifted places ....
