Exploring Everyday Streets
Chapter 18:
Mapping everyday heritage practices: Tivoli Barber Shop on North Street
Anna Skoura
While research on everyday streets has highlighted the complex relationship between their fabric and their economic and social life, it has yet to properly assess the role of cultural heritage in this relationship. Drawing on the performative nature of place as well as the concepts of everyday heritage and the taskscape, this chapter argues that mapping heritage practices develops our temporal and spatial understanding of everyday streets. This mapping is achieved by assessing the people, places and practices on everyday streets using interdisciplinary methodologies. Focusing on the case of Tivoli Barber Shop on Belfast’s North Street, this chapter demonstrates the contribution of local, independent shops to everyday streets’ continuity, social memory and dynamic production of cultural heritage.
About Anna Skoura
Anna Skoura is an urban heritage researcher, holding an MEng in Civil Engineering, an MSc in Conservation of Monuments and Sites, and a PhD in Architecture. Her research combines methods from architecture, heritage and the social sciences. She has worked in conservation and architecture in Belgium and Northern Ireland.