Confronting Heritage Part 2 Project 2025 Matteo Hunt-Cafarelli Newcastle University | UK This thesis challenges the limitations of the UK’s listing bureaucracy and the marginalised role architects have within it, using Durham University’s Student Union -the Dunelm House- as a case study. Explored through a Global perspective, advocating for greater public involvement in listing, and a Local perspective, reinterpreting listing criteria—particularly Group Value—as an active design tool.After decades of rejection the Dunelm Houses listing underscored the inconsistencies within the current Listing system. Given its listing followed public opposition to demolition and architect-led design charettes, exposing how historic value is shaped by perception over substance, highlighting the Global need for architects to reclaim their agency in the listing system, transforming our static label into a dynamic framework for broader public engagement in heritage processes.Additionally, the Localised design intervention further challenges the existing post-construction application of the Listing Criteria, instead considering its application throughout the entire design process as a design guide for substance intensification. Thus, resulting in a proposed circulation tower. Resolving existing accessibility problems, interconnecting with multiple new public routes, and intensifying visual relationships between the Dunelm House, Kingsgate Bridge, Durham Cathedral and the River Wear, forcing visitors into a visual confrontation between recognised and unrecognised Architectural heritage. Tutor(s)