Heritage Futures | Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

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

Lexicon

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.

Interventions

Publication

Fredheim, H. Why do you work with volunteers? CONTEXT: 155. 25-27.

21/09/2018

Harald Fredheim

Interventions

Publication

May, S. 2019. Heritage, endangerment and participation: alternative futures in the Lake District. International Journal of Heritage Studies.

28/06/2019

Sarah May

Interventions

Publication

Holtorf, C. (2017) The Heritage of Rupture [Review of Patina: A Profane Archaeology. Shannon Lee Dawdy, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2016 & Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City. Trinidad Rico, Routledge, New York, NY, 2016 ]. Historical Archaeology, 51(2): 302-304.

15/06/2017

Cornelius Holtorf

Partners

Associação Transumância e Natureza (ATN)

Associação Transumância e Natureza (ATN) is a non profit environmental NGO, created in 2000, at ...

http://www.atnatureza.org

Dispatches

Uncertainty

From the Vault to the Archive

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Nuclear Waste Management
Deep Space Messaging
Built Heritage Management
Museums
Biodiversity
Cultural Diversity

Interventions

Talk

The Challenges of Somali Cultural Heritage for the Dominant Heritage Discourse in Sweden

06/06/2016

Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Montreal

Cornelius Holtorf

Dispatches

Profusion

The profusion of things to do – on feeling ‘busier than ever’

Homes
Museums

Interventions

Talk

Heritage Futures at Te Papa

26/02/2018

Jennie Morgan is invited to present in the Te Papa seminar series, and will begin the year’s seminars with a talk on Heritage Futures and the Profusion theme. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

Jennie Morgan

Homes
Museums

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.

Lexicon

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,

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?

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

“Scientists use IVF procedures to help save near-extinct rhinos”. We have been researching the ways in which bioban… https://t.co/hOcJCQRDkN

Lexicon

Significance Assessment

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

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Very pleased to be included as a case study in the ⁦@EU_Commission⁩ JPI CH report: Heritage Research Matters – Case… https://t.co/SPxF30k90y

Dispatches

Uncertainty

Transforming Loss: Knowledge Exchange at Orford

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management
Museums
Biodiversity

People

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

Jennie Morgan, keynote speaker at the Canterbury Heritage Awards

Heritage Futures at the 2018 Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference

Disposal

Fredheim, H. Why do you work with volunteers? CONTEXT: 155. 25-27.

May, S. 2019. Heritage, endangerment and participation: alternative futures in the Lake District. International Journal of Heritage Studies.

Associação Transumância e Natureza (ATN)

From the Vault to the Archive

The Challenges of Somali Cultural Heritage for the Dominant Heritage Discourse in Sweden

The profusion of things to do – on feeling ‘busier than ever’

Heritage Futures at Te Papa

Salvation / Sacrifice

Endangerment

Forever

“Scientists use IVF procedures to help save near-extinct rhinos”. We have been researching the ways in which bioban… https://t.co/hOcJCQRDkN

Significance Assessment

Very pleased to be included as a case study in the ⁦@EU_Commission⁩ JPI CH report: Heritage Research Matters – Case… https://t.co/SPxF30k90y

Transforming Loss: Knowledge Exchange at Orford

Caitlin DeSilvey
Co-Investigator

Francesco Bandarin
Advisory Board Member

Stories

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

Jennie Morgan, keynote speaker at the Canterbury Heritage Awards

Heritage Futures at the 2018 Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference

Disposal

Fredheim, H. Why do you work with volunteers? CONTEXT: 155. 25-27.

May, S. 2019. Heritage, endangerment and participation: alternative futures in the Lake District. International Journal of Heritage Studies.

Associação Transumância e Natureza (ATN)

From the Vault to the Archive

The Challenges of Somali Cultural Heritage for the Dominant Heritage Discourse in Sweden

The profusion of things to do – on feeling ‘busier than ever’

Heritage Futures at Te Papa

Salvation / Sacrifice

Endangerment

Forever

“Scientists use IVF procedures to help save near-extinct rhinos”. We have been researching the ways in which bioban… https://t.co/hOcJCQRDkN

Significance Assessment

Very pleased to be included as a case study in the ⁦@EU_Commission⁩ JPI CH report: Heritage Research Matters – Case… https://t.co/SPxF30k90y

Transforming Loss: Knowledge Exchange at Orford

Caitlin DeSilveyCo-Investigator

Francesco BandarinAdvisory Board Member

Stories

Caitlin DeSilvey
Co-Investigator

Francesco Bandarin
Advisory Board Member