50 Vol. 9/2 2020 Everyday Heritage and Place- Making Lisa Giombini In this paper, I combine sources from environmental psychology with insights from the everyday aesthetics literature to explore the concept of ‘everyday heritage’, formerly introduced by Saruhan Mosler (2019). Highlighting the potential of heritage in its everyday context shows that symbolic, aesthetic, and broadly conceived affective factors may be as important as architectural, historical, and artistic issues when it comes to conceiving of heritage value. Indeed, there seems to be more to a heritage site than its official inscription on the UNESCO register. A place is included as part of our heritage primarily because it matters to us. People live in, form relationships with, and derive existential and affective meanings from it. Above and beyond its official significance, a heritage site is thus a living dimension that plays a vital role in the everyday life and social practices of people, who transform it into a place of human significance. | Keywords: Everyday Heritage, Place-Making, Familiarity, Everyday Aesthetics 1. Introduction At its core, the notion of cultural heritage is typically taken to mean something special, unique, and outstanding: ruins of a glorious and distant past, sublime landscapes, buildings of immeasurable beauty and artistic appeal. Cultural heritage refers to the most valuable things our ancestors have bestowed upon us, the gifts that past generations have offered to their present and future descendants. Not by chance, in many European languages the English term ‘heritage’ is translated with the Latin ‘patrimonium’ a noun originally indicating the estates or assets that were transmitted from father to son (see for example patrimonio culturale in Italian or patrimoine culturel in French). Heritage is regarded as our family treasure, a treasure that can be disputed by different family members (see e.g. Young, 2007), but whose exceptional significance is hardly put into question. Consider now the concept of everydayness, to which this Symposium is dedicated. At first glance, there seems to be no notion as remote from and unrelated to the exceptionality of cultural heritage as that of the everyday. The Oxford English Dictionary defines everydayness as what is “commonplace and