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The annual Preservation Field Schools are intensive, four to six-week programs that provide students with hands-on experience in working with neighborhoods, rural communities and/or buildings and landscapes worthy of documentation and analysis. Enrollment is generally limited to 18 participants. The annual programs include actual work with the materials of a building or area, in addition to understanding its contents, environment and inhabitants. The six-credit graduate programs are co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies at UHM and the Outreach College, and focus on a different location each year. Past participants, both students and professionals, have been from Hawaii, the Pacific, Asia, Europe and the U.S. Many of the students are enrolled in the Graduate Certificate Program in Historic Preservation in the Department of American Studies at UHM. Others are drawn from closely allied fields, such as Urban and Regional Planning, Architecture, History and Geography. Typically about half to two-thirds of the students come from the University of Hawaii, the rest from institutions on the mainland or from overseas. Past international students have included participants from Cambodia, Micronesia, Thailand and Japan. The program also welcomes mid-career professionals who take the course to enhance existing skills or knowledge for their work back home. The first field school was held in 1991 at the Iole Mission Station, a 19th-century complex of buildings of the missionary Bond family in North Kohala, Island of Hawaii. The 1992 field school examined Oahu's Ewa Plantation, the most complete surviving sugar plantation complex in the State. In 1993 the program was on the Island of Hawaii again, with Hilo and environs as the venue, including the historic downtown area and 1899 W.H. Shipman residence. The year 1994 featured Manoa Valley in Honolulu, an exceptionally well-preserved late 19th and early 20th-century residential community. The 1995 Field School on Maui focused on Vernacular Architecture. Between 1996 and 2002 there were two field programs held annually on documentation of vernacular or historic architecture. In 1996, one was held in the commercial area of Waialae Avenue in Kaimuki on the island of Oahu and the second in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The year 1997 the Hawaii program studied Kalaupapa, Molokai, while the Asian Field School took place in Bangkok, Thailand. In 1998, the Hawaii program studied Historic Chinatown in Honolulu, while the Asian Field School took place in Bangkok, Thailand. Recent Hawaii-based field schools have taken place in Kaimuki (2001) and Kapahulu (2004), both historic Honolulu neighborhoods, and in Moiliili, the urban neighborhood adjacent to the University of Hawaii’s Manoa campus (2002, 2003). The Preservation Field School has cooperated with the National Park Service in a survey of historic properties at the Hansen’s Disease Settlement at Kalaupapa (1997), and with the Hawaii Capital Cultural District coalition in the proposed downtown National Heritage Area of the Capital District (2005). The Asian Field School was held in Bangkok, in association with the SEAMEO Center for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SPAFA), from 1998 through 2002. Funding was provided by the Japan Foundation, with students coming from nearly all the Southeast Asian countries, as well as the U.S. and Japan. A total of 93 students completed the six-week Southeast Asia Field School. Many are now working with governmental organizations or universities in their own countries. One of the goals of the field school, and the entire historic preservation program, is to expand the awareness of people in the community about the opportunities that exist for preservation activities within their cities, towns and neighborhoods. Many guest speakers are included in the annual month-long program and a number of the lectures are open to the public. In
addition to Hawaii resource people, who provide a unique local perspective,
those from outside the State of Hawaiÿi have included: Peter James, Preservation Consultant, Canberra, Australia Stephen Spaulding, Supervisor of Building Conservation, Cultural Resources Center, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Boston, Massachusetts George Atta, Senior Planner with Group 70, Honolulu, Hawaii David Franzen, Franzen Photography, Kailua, Hawaii Dr. Karl Kim, Chair, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UH Manoa Paul Morgan, Principal, Suzuki-Morgan Architects, Honolulu, Hawaii Tonia Moy, Architect, Fung and Associates, Honolulu, Hawaii and former Architectural Historian with the State Historic Preservation Division, State of Hawaii, Honolulu Dr. Don Hibbard, former Administrator, State Historic Preservation Division, State of Hawaii, Honolulu Dr. Tom Dinell, Professor Emeritus, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UH Manoa Russell Kokubun, State Senator, 2nd Senatorial District, State of Hawaii Past instructors have included: Dr. William J. Murtagh, Associate Faculty, Department of American Studies, UH Manoa and former Keeper of the National Register and Vice-President, National Trust for Historic Preservation Dr. Jeffrey Cody, former Associate Professor, Chinese University, Hong Kong, now Senior Program Officer, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California A. Spencer Leineweber, FAIA, Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, UH Manoa Peter Drey, Peter Drey and Associates, Atlanta, Georgia
2008
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