- The behind the project is about using the story of a dead community to create a future for a surviving island community. To ensure that people see Uig as an important cultural landscape it is important to focus on that strand of the St Kilda narrative. is no other visitor attraction that tells such a unique cultural story as this one can about the people of St Kilda and the Hebrides. The story of the people is so intertwined that the end result is that the Centre will inevitably explain the site’s natural OUV and share its values, but in a secondary manner, around the core narrative of the people’s lives in the landscape. The core narrative of the site is this long history of human settlement and this unique human experience at the of the world’… ‘edge If you try to do and stories at same time you will dilute ‘nature’ ‘human’ your storytelling… and seem like other places, many of which do pure stories. ‘nature’ Every story told needs to start with these people and their lives… Because everyone can identify with a human story like this, it provides a point of entry for people from around the world to imagine themselves in the shoes of the islanders. Through that the project can explore a range of issues with strong contemporary resonance: Settlement Survival in a tough environment Changing relationships with natural world Living within environmental constraints Coping with isolation Communities shaped by their environment Contact with the wider world Pressures for change/Modernization Adapting to change Innovation Disease Decline
- The behind the project is about using the story of a dead community to create a future for a surviving island community. To ensure that people see Uig as an important cultural landscape it is important to focus on that strand of the St Kilda narrative. is no other visitor attraction that tells such a unique cultural story as this one can about the people of St Kilda and the Hebrides. The story of the people is so intertwined that the end result is that the Centre will inevitably explain the site’s natural OUV and share its values, but in a secondary manner, around the core narrative of the people’s lives in the landscape. The core narrative of the site is this long history of human settlement and this unique human experience at the ‘edge of the world’… If you try to do ‘nature’ and ‘human’ stories at same time you will dilute your storytelling… and seem like other places, many of which do pure ‘nature’ stories. Every story told needs to start with these people and their lives… Because everyone can identify with a human story like this, it provides a point of entry for people from around the world to imagine themselves in the shoes of the islanders. Through that the project can explore a range of issues with strong contemporary resonance: Settlement Survival in a tough environment Changing relationships with natural world Living within environmental constraints Coping with isolation Communities shaped by their environment Contact with the wider world Pressures for change/Modernization Adapting to change Innovation Disease Decline
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