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

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.

Dispatches

Profusion

The end of plenty? Museums collecting archaeology

Museums

Dispatches

Transformation

‘Tomorrow starts here’: earthquakes, heritage, and the rebuilding of a city

In light of the most recent earthquake to strike Christchurch (New Zealand) on 14 February 2016, our researcher Jennie Morgan considers the rebuilding of a city and its heritage through Profusion theme interests.

Transformation
Profusion

Lexicon

Diversity

Diversity as a term has lineages in biological theories of evolution, anthropological documentation projects, and, more recently, as an interpretation of multiculturalism and social justice.

Partners

Memory of Mankind

Memory of Mankind – MOM – preserves the stories about our era and saves them ...

Lexicon

Significance Assessment

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

Dispatches

Profusion

Sorting through (ethnographic) things: reflections on Profusion theme fieldwork

Homes
Museums

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

@DrJennie_Morgan that was the second quote (you sure you weren't there ;) )

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

@DrJennie_Morgan But we'll see you next Tues for Rodney's inaugural - its going to be great fun

People

Robyn Raxworthy
PhD Student

University of Exeter

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.

People

Nadia Bartolini
Research Associate

University of Exeter

Dispatches

Profusion

Storii

Homes
Museums

Interventions

Talk

'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

Built Heritage Management

Dispatches

Uncertainty

Time, timelessness and World Heritage

Lexicon

Legacies

This term is helpful in bringing heritage, which is generally understood to be something which is both endangered and positively valued, into comparative perspective.

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