All Outputs (3)

Negotiating Heritage and Energy Conservation: an ethnography of domestic renovation (2016)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2016). Negotiating Heritage and Energy Conservation: an ethnography of domestic renovation. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, 7(4), 340-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/17567505.2016.1253149

What is the relationship between energy efficiency and old buildings? While a large body of research exists on the buildings science and technology of retro-fit, relatively little attention has focused on the social practices and assumptions that sha... Read More about Negotiating Heritage and Energy Conservation: an ethnography of domestic renovation.

Experimental Afterlives: making and unmaking developmental laboratories in Ghana (2016)
Book Chapter
Yarrow, T. (2016). Experimental Afterlives: making and unmaking developmental laboratories in Ghana. In J. Evans, A. Karvonen, & R. Raven (Eds.), The experimental city (205-217). Routledge

Science, value and material decay in the conservation of historic environments (2016)
Journal Article
Douglas-Jones, R., Hughes, J., Jones, S., & Yarrow, T. (2016). Science, value and material decay in the conservation of historic environments. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 21, 823-833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2016.03.007

The historic environment undergoes cycles of material deterioration, and these processes have a powerful impact on the meanings and values associated with it. In particular, decay informs the experience of authenticity, as a tangible mark of age and... Read More about Science, value and material decay in the conservation of historic environments.