Tracy Ireland
Biographic Data
| ID | 160773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Ireland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy |
| FAMILY NAME | Ireland |
| SIGNATURE | IRELAND T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canberra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6131-9689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Digital engineering for heritage conservation: Standards-aligned UAV-TLS workflow and immersive dissemination for climate-exposed heritage landscapes
The Old Great North Road (OGNR)—a component of the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage property—is increasingly exposed to pluvial runoff and bushfire hazards. This paper reports a standards-aligned digital documentation and communication workflow that combines UAV photogrammetry with terrestrial laser scanning to produce georeferenced 3D baselines for selected road-fabric attributes (culverts, retaining walls, rock surfaces and adjacent terr…
Engaging the everyday: The Concept and Practice of 'Everyday Heritage
In this paper, we explore what it means to link heritage to the everyday, how this has been framed in the field of heritage studies to date and how engagement with the everyday might generate future opportunities for heritage practice. We highlight distinctive aspects of everyday heritage, including its post-representative nature, the importance of urban activism, digital and historical forms of cultural participation, as well as its aesthetic re…
Everything, everywhere, everyday: The undisciplining of archaeology and heritage
Chasing Future Feelings: A Practice-led Experiment with Emergent Digital Materialities of Heritage
High-fidelity imaging methods such as laser scanning and digital photogrammetry have captured public and professional audiences in a flurry of optimistic discourse about their capacities as forms of preservation and of archaeological recording and interpretation. With technical finesse and mastery, endangered heritage can, it is argued, be captured, re-materialized, and recovered from the forces that threaten it. As the plot concerning our 'digit…
Situating (in)significance
In this paper we introduce the concept of ‘(in)significance’ as a way to think about values in heritage, and in the attribution, recording, description, assessment and categorisation practices that characterise heritage processes. Our aim is to throw light on how this concept shapes, and is shaped by, contemporary heritage practices and outcomes. We consider the history of the idea of significance, particularly as it is defined in the Burra Chart…
Introduction: (In)significance - Values and Valuing in Heritage
The notion and possibilities of (in)significance arose in 2015 when we developed an idea for a one-day symposium titled ‘(in)significance: a discussion about values and valuing in heritage’. At the symposium, we aimed to explore the history, theory and practical application of the concept of significance and broach the idea and potential application of ‘(in)significance’. Based on the level of interest generated, this special edition of the Inter…
Secret and safe: The underlife of concealed objects from the Royal Derwent Hospital, New Norfolk, Tasmania
This paper focuses on a collection of objects deliberately concealed beneath the verandah of a ward for middle-class, female, paying patients at Australia's longest continuously operating mental health institution, the Royal Derwent Hospital in Tasmania. Cached in small discrete mounds across an area of some 50 square metres, the collection was probably concealed in the mid-20th century and contains over 1000 items of clothing, ephemera and other…
Last Drinks at the Hibernian’: Practice-led research into art and archaeology
Last Drinks at the Hibernian (Frederick & Ireland 2016) is a collaborative art work that explores what happens when archaeological materials are reconstituted as art and how the ‘creative turn’ might swivel archaeology’s critical lens back onto its own practices and materialities. This creative engagement explores the history and political economy of Australian archaeology, particularly historical archaeology, in order to understand how archaeolo…
Affective Aprons: Object Biographies from the Ladies’ Cottage, Royal Derwent Hospital New Norfolk, Tasmania
Up Close and Personal: Feeling the Past at Urban Archaeological Sites
In this article I focus on the emotional, sensory and aesthetic affordances of urban archaeological remains conserved in situ and explore what these ruins 'do' in the context of the layered urban fabric of the city. I am concerned with a particular category of archaeological remains: those that illustrate the colonial history of settler nations, exploring examples in Sydney and Montreal. Using Sara Ahmed's concept of 'affective economies' - where…
Rethinking Materiality, Memory and Identity
This introductory article considers and questions exactly how materials and people constitute social worlds and relationships which sustain identity and memory and, in turn, the social and political structures or norms that these attachments invest in, stabilise and maintain
The Ethics of Cultural Heritage
The Ethics of Visibility: Archaeology, Conservation and Memories of Settler Colonialism
Ethics of Cultural Heritage
Commentary: I dwell in Possibility’ — ethical futures for heritage and archaeology
Reflecting on the ethical challenges facing archaeologists working in Africa, and upon similar issues encountered in the Australian context, I consider two forms of ‘possibility’. The first concerns the ‘condition of possibility’ (following Kant and Foucault's concept of the episteme), i.e. the conditions that allow forms of power and authority to exist and produce subjects (in our case archaeology and heritage). The second is the kind of ‘possib…
‘I Felt Connected to a Past World’: A Survey of Visitors to Colonial Archaeological Sites Conserved In Situ in Australia and New Zealand
While there is extensive international literature on the technology and techniques of archaeological conservation and preservation in situ, there has been only limited discussion of the meanings of the places created and the responses they evoke in visitors. Experience in Australia and New Zealand over the past decade suggests that the conservation of colonial archaeological remains is today seen as a far more desirable option, whereas previously…
From Mission to Maynggu Ganai: The Wellington Valley Convict Station and Mission Site
The Absence of Ghosts”: Landscape and Identity in the Archaeology of Australia’s Settler Culture
The Absence of Ghosts”: Landscape and Identity in the Archaeology of Australia’s Settler Culture
Situating (in)significance
In this paper we introduce the concept of ‘(in)significance’ as a way to think about values in heritage, and in the attribution, recording, description, assessment and categorisation practices that characterise heritage processes. Our aim is to throw light on how this concept shapes, and is shaped by, contemporary heritage practices and outcomes. We consider the history of the idea of significance, particularly as it is defined in the Burra Chart…
Engaging the everyday: The Concept and Practice of 'Everyday Heritage
In this paper, we explore what it means to link heritage to the everyday, how this has been framed in the field of heritage studies to date and how engagement with the everyday might generate future opportunities for heritage practice. We highlight distinctive aspects of everyday heritage, including its post-representative nature, the importance of urban activism, digital and historical forms of cultural participation, as well as its aesthetic re…
Secret and safe: The underlife of concealed objects from the Royal Derwent Hospital, New Norfolk, Tasmania
This paper focuses on a collection of objects deliberately concealed beneath the verandah of a ward for middle-class, female, paying patients at Australia's longest continuously operating mental health institution, the Royal Derwent Hospital in Tasmania. Cached in small discrete mounds across an area of some 50 square metres, the collection was probably concealed in the mid-20th century and contains over 1000 items of clothing, ephemera and other…
Everything, everywhere, everyday: The undisciplining of archaeology and heritage
Chasing Future Feelings: A Practice-led Experiment with Emergent Digital Materialities of Heritage
High-fidelity imaging methods such as laser scanning and digital photogrammetry have captured public and professional audiences in a flurry of optimistic discourse about their capacities as forms of preservation and of archaeological recording and interpretation. With technical finesse and mastery, endangered heritage can, it is argued, be captured, re-materialized, and recovered from the forces that threaten it. As the plot concerning our 'digit…
Affective Aprons: Object Biographies from the Ladies’ Cottage, Royal Derwent Hospital New Norfolk, Tasmania
Up Close and Personal: Feeling the Past at Urban Archaeological Sites
In this article I focus on the emotional, sensory and aesthetic affordances of urban archaeological remains conserved in situ and explore what these ruins 'do' in the context of the layered urban fabric of the city. I am concerned with a particular category of archaeological remains: those that illustrate the colonial history of settler nations, exploring examples in Sydney and Montreal. Using Sara Ahmed's concept of 'affective economies' - where…
From Mission to Maynggu Ganai: The Wellington Valley Convict Station and Mission Site
Last Drinks at the Hibernian’: Practice-led research into art and archaeology
Last Drinks at the Hibernian (Frederick & Ireland 2016) is a collaborative art work that explores what happens when archaeological materials are reconstituted as art and how the ‘creative turn’ might swivel archaeology’s critical lens back onto its own practices and materialities. This creative engagement explores the history and political economy of Australian archaeology, particularly historical archaeology, in order to understand how archaeolo…
Rethinking Materiality, Memory and Identity
This introductory article considers and questions exactly how materials and people constitute social worlds and relationships which sustain identity and memory and, in turn, the social and political structures or norms that these attachments invest in, stabilise and maintain
The Absence of Ghosts”: Landscape and Identity in the Archaeology of Australia’s Settler Culture
From Mission to Maynggu Ganai: The Wellington Valley Convict Station and Mission Site
‘I Felt Connected to a Past World’: A Survey of Visitors to Colonial Archaeological Sites Conserved In Situ in Australia and New Zealand
While there is extensive international literature on the technology and techniques of archaeological conservation and preservation in situ, there has been only limited discussion of the meanings of the places created and the responses they evoke in visitors. Experience in Australia and New Zealand over the past decade suggests that the conservation of colonial archaeological remains is today seen as a far more desirable option, whereas previously…
Ethics of Cultural Heritage
Commentary: I dwell in Possibility’ — ethical futures for heritage and archaeology
Reflecting on the ethical challenges facing archaeologists working in Africa, and upon similar issues encountered in the Australian context, I consider two forms of ‘possibility’. The first concerns the ‘condition of possibility’ (following Kant and Foucault's concept of the episteme), i.e. the conditions that allow forms of power and authority to exist and produce subjects (in our case archaeology and heritage). The second is the kind of ‘possib…
The Ethics of Cultural Heritage
The Ethics of Visibility: Archaeology, Conservation and Memories of Settler Colonialism
Up Close and Personal: Feeling the Past at Urban Archaeological Sites
In this article I focus on the emotional, sensory and aesthetic affordances of urban archaeological remains conserved in situ and explore what these ruins 'do' in the context of the layered urban fabric of the city. I am concerned with a particular category of archaeological remains: those that illustrate the colonial history of settler nations, exploring examples in Sydney and Montreal. Using Sara Ahmed's concept of 'affective economies' - where…
Rethinking Materiality, Memory and Identity
This introductory article considers and questions exactly how materials and people constitute social worlds and relationships which sustain identity and memory and, in turn, the social and political structures or norms that these attachments invest in, stabilise and maintain
Affective Aprons: Object Biographies from the Ladies’ Cottage, Royal Derwent Hospital New Norfolk, Tasmania
Last Drinks at the Hibernian’: Practice-led research into art and archaeology
Last Drinks at the Hibernian (Frederick & Ireland 2016) is a collaborative art work that explores what happens when archaeological materials are reconstituted as art and how the ‘creative turn’ might swivel archaeology’s critical lens back onto its own practices and materialities. This creative engagement explores the history and political economy of Australian archaeology, particularly historical archaeology, in order to understand how archaeolo…
Situating (in)significance
In this paper we introduce the concept of ‘(in)significance’ as a way to think about values in heritage, and in the attribution, recording, description, assessment and categorisation practices that characterise heritage processes. Our aim is to throw light on how this concept shapes, and is shaped by, contemporary heritage practices and outcomes. We consider the history of the idea of significance, particularly as it is defined in the Burra Chart…
Introduction: (In)significance - Values and Valuing in Heritage
The notion and possibilities of (in)significance arose in 2015 when we developed an idea for a one-day symposium titled ‘(in)significance: a discussion about values and valuing in heritage’. At the symposium, we aimed to explore the history, theory and practical application of the concept of significance and broach the idea and potential application of ‘(in)significance’. Based on the level of interest generated, this special edition of the Inter…
Secret and safe: The underlife of concealed objects from the Royal Derwent Hospital, New Norfolk, Tasmania
This paper focuses on a collection of objects deliberately concealed beneath the verandah of a ward for middle-class, female, paying patients at Australia's longest continuously operating mental health institution, the Royal Derwent Hospital in Tasmania. Cached in small discrete mounds across an area of some 50 square metres, the collection was probably concealed in the mid-20th century and contains over 1000 items of clothing, ephemera and other…
Chasing Future Feelings: A Practice-led Experiment with Emergent Digital Materialities of Heritage
High-fidelity imaging methods such as laser scanning and digital photogrammetry have captured public and professional audiences in a flurry of optimistic discourse about their capacities as forms of preservation and of archaeological recording and interpretation. With technical finesse and mastery, endangered heritage can, it is argued, be captured, re-materialized, and recovered from the forces that threaten it. As the plot concerning our 'digit…
Everything, everywhere, everyday: The undisciplining of archaeology and heritage
Engaging the everyday: The Concept and Practice of 'Everyday Heritage
In this paper, we explore what it means to link heritage to the everyday, how this has been framed in the field of heritage studies to date and how engagement with the everyday might generate future opportunities for heritage practice. We highlight distinctive aspects of everyday heritage, including its post-representative nature, the importance of urban activism, digital and historical forms of cultural participation, as well as its aesthetic re…
Digital engineering for heritage conservation: Standards-aligned UAV-TLS workflow and immersive dissemination for climate-exposed heritage landscapes
The Old Great North Road (OGNR)—a component of the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage property—is increasingly exposed to pluvial runoff and bushfire hazards. This paper reports a standards-aligned digital documentation and communication workflow that combines UAV photogrammetry with terrestrial laser scanning to produce georeferenced 3D baselines for selected road-fabric attributes (culverts, retaining walls, rock surfaces and adjacent terr…
History (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (12 works) · Art (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)