Epistemic foundation of my approach
My consulting is informed by perspectives from science communication research and the sociology of science. Rather than prescribing a single theoretical framework, it invites participants to reflect on the relationship between archaeology and the public through different conceptual lenses, and to relate these to their own professional experience.
One possible epistemic framework draws on Pierre Bourdieu's field theory together with Peter Weingart's work on science communication and knowledge orders. From this perspective, archaeology, public institutions, media, citizen initiatives and other social actors operate within different social fields, each shaped by its own logics, expectations and forms of knowledge.
Following Weingart, scientific knowledge is understood as continuously negotiated within and between these contexts, rather than as something simply transferred between actors. The schema is an invitation: it helps us work through how dialogue, participation and collaboration emerge, where tensions arise, and which conditions support constructive exchange.