This lecture is about understanding heritage as a construct and even as a process (hence the term patrimonialization). It explores the passion for narrating places through contemporary interventions taking the form of rehabilitation or adaptive reuse, interpretation and presentation, and other practices at various sites in Jordan including Amman, Ajlun, Salt, and Madaba. It addresses how different levels of place understanding (discursive, typo-morphological, and phenomenological) can inform reactions and new levels of interventions in an attempt to create new meanings for such places. This is as much about the present as it is the past; as much about the intangible as architecture and physical heritage; about the narrator, as much as it is about the narrative. This lecture is about subjugated realities and granting voice to the marginalized as much as it is about the “official” past.