Heritage Futures | Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

Diversity

How are biological, cultural, genetic, and linguistic diversity categorised and conserved, and what can one field learn from another?...

Dispatches

Diversity

This salon to accompany the current Octagon exhibition Cabinets of Consequence will explore how heritage and other related forms of conservation practices (including nuclear waste management) make futures. How do we use material culture to stitch futures from pasts? What do we conserve? What do we get rid of? What do we allow to change? This Salon will be staged as a series of conversations across various themes currently being explored within the Heritage Futures research programme,Event held at Haldane Room, Wilkins Building , Gower Street WC1

Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Caitlin DeSilvey
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May
Jennie Morgan
Nadia Bartolini
Antony Lyons
Kyle Lee Crossett

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Nuclear Waste Management
Deep Space Messaging
World Heritage Site Management
Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management
Homes
Museums
Biodiversity
Cultural Diversity

Lexicon

Bureaucracy / Data

‘I can’t tell you how many objects we manage, but I can tell you the number of records’. This statement illustrates how closely heritage is connected with, perhaps even defined by, data-driven, bureaucratic processes

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Forever

Forever is a luxury brand evoking quality. What do these kinds of branding do? What kinds of practices do they engender? How do they draw on pasts? Do they draw on different pasts?

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Scale (space and time)

In this project, we have encountered (expanded-)heritage situations on a wide range of scales.

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

@FengyunAdrift https://t.co/4XVmQjmyD5

People

Cornelius Holtorf
Co-Investigator

Linnaeus University

Dispatches

Uncertainty

Heritage futures in Interstellar

Christopher Nolan’s movie Interstellar (2014) describes a bold scenario for the future of planet Earth, but Heritage looks the same as ever.

Deep Space Messaging

People

John Orna-Ornstein
Advisory Board Member

Arts Council England

Lexicon

Dualism

While conducting interviews for the Transformation theme, we have come across a number of instances where people discuss a particular issue that can be both positive and negative.

Partners

Nordgen

The search for ‘improved’ yield and resilience in crop varieties has resulted in increased homogeneity ...

http://www.nordgen.org

Interventions

Publication

Bennett, T., Cameron, F., Dias, N., Dibley, B., Harrison, R., Jacknis, I., McCarthy, C. (2017). Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums and Liberal Government. Duke University Press, Durham and London

01/01/2017

Rodney Harrison

Dispatches

Uncertainty

Time, timelessness and World Heritage

Dispatches

Profusion

On Collecting: An Interview with a Private Collector

Homes

Dispatches

Diversity

What does Doomsday look like?

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is sometimes called the “Doomsday Vault.” Evocation of an apocalypse – red deserts, rats and roaches – is built into that term. But is that how we should really conceive of it?

Biodiversity

Dispatches

Profusion

The Ethics of Dust

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

#Profusion theme Creative Fellow @shelleycastle1 will be exploring object stories at the Agatha Christie Festival https://t.co/Niw56YWMIa

Lexicon

Salvation / Sacrifice

If heritage is defined by those objects, places and practices it is charged with “saving”, we rarely pause to consider its opposite effects: the ways in which it also involves forms of sacrifice.

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Stories

In museums of the contemporary everyday, ‘stories’ is a term that has repeatedly been used by those with whom we have talked.

Exploring alternative ways of shaping future legacies and assembling common worlds across different fields of conservation practice

Uncertainty

How is the uncertainty of the deep future conceived of and managed in different fields of conservation practice? ...

Transformation

What values are associated with heritage structures and landscapes that are allowed to undergo transformation and change?...

Profusion

How do museums and people in their homes decide what to keep in the face of mass production and consumption?...

Diversity

How are biological, cultural, genetic, and linguistic diversity categorised and conserved, and what can one field learn from another?...

Is it Doomsday yet? We need to talk about eternity

Exploring Uncertainty

Advent Futures / Troubling Presents