Summer Program, Preservation Institute Nantucket, Nantucket, MA
Posted February 8, 2023
Description:
The Island of Nantucket, a National Historic Landmark, illustrates the multitude of challenges threatening many historic communities, including sea level rise and regular flooding, balancing tourism with heritage, loss of historic materials, and unexplored cultural narratives. PIN students are involved in and exposed to projects that reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of historic preservation. Students learn from PIN faculty and practitioners through work with existing buildings, materials, resource documentation, archival research, site surveys, stakeholder interviews, and public presentations.
Additionally, for the 2023 summer, students will investigate the history of how people have lived on the island, how industry shifts impacted housing, and look for ways that history can inform solutions for the current issues of rising housing costs and year-round availably. Students will study the intersection of heritage and housing at multiple scales, from the evolution of architectural housing types to the development of urban form and neighborhoods. Archival, architectural and urban research will encompass the 17th century to the present. Resources will include but aren’t limited to: archival research, historic drawings, census data, inspection and assessment of existing residential and multi-use buildings, maps and plans, etc. Students from all disciplines are encouraged to attend and contribute to the interdisciplinary, complex project to understand how history can positively inform contemporary decision-making.
PIN is open to Graduate Students and Upper-Level Undergraduate Students from any institution across the world. Students will earn nine graduate credits between May 15th and August 11th. Priority applications are due March 1 with a final deadline of April 14.
To Apply:
An open house is being held online Febuary 27th at 12pm EST
https://ufl.zoom.us/j/95829769389?pwd=NTNZZ05HTEwzMGZaRzVGYlVzc1lQQT09
Meeting ID: 958 2976 9389
Passcode: 780972
Application can be found here along with additional information: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=-KBNDTFKdk2s5gpiMx4bhPfHai9pvjFDs9XkWNiW9RRUMlY4MTk4SFVITEVVVkZKTkVET1c3Qk1ZNi4u