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

Transformation

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

Homes
Museums
Cultural Diversity

Interventions

Talk

Heritage Futures at the 2018 Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference

06/09/2018

Members of the Heritage Futures research team will be convening and presenting at seven sessions at the Association for Critical Heritage Studies 2018 conference at Zheijang University in Hangzhou, China from 1st-6th September.

If you’re heading there, come check out (at least) one of our sessions. Or follow our twitter @Future_Heritage and website for updates resulting from these sessions.

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Interventions

Publication

Caitlin DeSilvey and Nadia Bartolini. 2018. Where horses run free? Autonomy, temporality, and rewilding in the Côa Valley, Portugal. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2018: 1-16.

11/06/2018

Caitlin DeSilvey
Nadia Bartolini

World Heritage Site Management
Natural Heritage Management

Lexicon

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

Interventions

Talk

Who Cares? Interventions in 'unloved' musuem collections

06/11/2015

Archaeology and the Future

17/09/2014

Constructing Memory. An international conference and debate on the preservation of records, knowledge and memory of radioactive waste across generations. Centre Mondial de la Paix, Verdun, France

Cornelius Holtorf
Anders Högberg

Nuclear Waste Management

Interventions

Talk

On the Trace: Passing, presence and the persistence of the past

23/09/2016

The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen

Rodney Harrison

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

People

Sarah May
Affiliated Researcher

Institute of Archaeology

Dispatches

Transformation

If the Tunnel Tree Falls in the Forest

Natural Heritage Management

Dispatches

Transformation

Geopoetic reflections, exhibition notes and images from the Limbo Landscape Lab

Lexicon

Uncertainty

Heritage is often said to be the human legacy preserved for the benefit of future generations. A major challenge in this logic lies in how to overcome the future’s inherent uncertainty.

Lexicon

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?

Interventions

Publication

Högberg, A. (2016) To renegotiate heritage and citizenship beyond essentialism, Archaeological Dialogues, Volume 23 Issue 01

20/05/2016

Archaeology Training with CITiZAN at Orford Ness

Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management

Interventions

Publication

Perspectives on Disposal: Decluttering

16/10/2017

A guest blog entry from Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan for the Collections Trust. Based on the Heritage Futures Curating Domestic Profusion workshop.

Sharon Macdonald
Jennie Morgan

Homes
Museums

Lexicon

Scale (space and time)

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

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?...

LIMBO LANDSCAPE LAB @ Wheal Martyn

Assembling and Conserving Biodiversity in a Frozen Ark

Recording Loss at Orford Ness

How does heritage work when we’re ‘Living in the Future’?

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

Heritage Futures at the 2018 Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference

Caitlin DeSilvey and Nadia Bartolini. 2018. Where horses run free? Autonomy, temporality, and rewilding in the Côa Valley, Portugal. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2018: 1-16.

Disposal