Heritage Futures | Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

Homes
Museums
Cultural Diversity

Diversity

Heritage, Change and the 'Second-Generation' Phenomenon: Traditional Craft and Revitalization in Jingdezhen

Sharon Macdonald
Jennie Morgan

Publication

Macdonald, S. and Morgan, J. (2018) How can we know the future? Uncertainty, transformation, and magical techniques of significance assessment in museum collecting. Assessment of Significance. Berlin: Deutsches Historisches Museum, pp.20-26

10/04/2018

Museums

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

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

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

Disposal

We examine disposal across different heritage domains, and consider the potential for ‘imaginative decommissioning’ (DeSilvey 2017) and the possible differences between disposing in cultural and natural heritage realms.

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.

Built Heritage Management

'Looking to the Future of Historic Urban Landscape Research: the view from the AHRC’s future heritage strategy'.

21/03/2017 — 22/03/2017

A talk by Rodney Harrison at the ‘Historic Urban Landscape Forum’. Event hosted by the Bartlett UCL, in co-ordination with the UNESCO AD-G Culture, at University College London.

Rodney Harrison

Autonomy

When we say something has ‘autonomy’ we usually mean that it is free from external control or influence. In academic debates, some have argued that autonomy is the defining quality of rewilding initiatives

People

Saida Engstrom
Advisory Board Member

SKB

theheritagealliance.org.uk

Significance Assessment

Questions of significance are of perennial, inevitable relevance to heritage conservation and management.

Partners

The Heritage Alliance

The Heritage Alliance is the biggest coalition of heritage interests in England. It brings together ...

Endangerment

Heritage is, by definition, something which is considered to be endangered or at risk. That risk might simply be a result of the inherently perceived threat of time itself—which implies processes of forgetting, decaying,

Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management
Biodiversity

Transformation

Section of Google-Earth track of first joint field trip by Antony Lyons and Caitlin DeSilvey in Cornwall in 2014Section of Google-Earth track of first joint field trip by Antony Lyons and Caitlin DeSilvey in Cornwall in 2014

Landscapes in Limbo

The Heritage Futures research programme will be joined by members of the AHRC Heritage Priority Area team in attending and organising a number of activities at the 19th ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) General Assembly and Scientific Symposium in New Delhi .

Heritage Futures at the 19th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Assembly in New Delhi, India

07/12/2017

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Heritage Assemblages

13/02/2017

A talk by Rodney Harrison, Jean-Paul Van Bendegem, Lionel De Vlieger and Isabelle Stengers.

Rodney Harrison

Apocalypse

Apocalypse is a concept that has increasing currency as meaning a sudden destruction of the world, it is usually invoked in order to warn and encourage a change in behaviour.

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

& our #uncertainty theme @linneuni partners with @ICOMOS and Memory of Mankind https://t.co/paDrC4qsir

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

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Our #profusion theme @UniOfYork partners with @MuseumsAssoc @YorkMuseumTrust @Aimuseums @schoolhousegall… https://t.co/D01i7FVFHD

Built Heritage Management
Museums
Cultural Diversity

Diversity

Radical BAME Youth Heritage Project

People

Loyd Grossman
Advisory Board Member

The Heritage Alliance

Rodney Harrison
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May

Exhibition

Cabinets of Consequence

01/06/2016 — 29/06/2017

The Octagon Gallery, University College London

Uncertainty
Diversity

Biodiversity