Practices of care are small gestures that stakeholders might be encouraged to take in relation to the site. It is an example of a community-engagement strategy in which stakeholders contribute to the change in the local memory culture by participating in marking of a site or improving its condition it (e.g. through cleaning, landscaping and planting) and subsequently are invited to care for the results of their work (e.g. watering the plants). The advantage of this approach is that it gives everybody who wants to join a given heritage community something concrete and tangible that they can do which also creates and strengthens their relationship to the site and builds a sense of stewardship.
photos Agata Ganiebna