Heritage Futures

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

Publication

DeSilvey, C. and Bartolini, N. (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

Interventions

Talk

Curated Decay: Arts of Losing, Noticing, Listening

02/06/2018 — 02/06/2018

Talk by Caitlin DeSilvey for Tuned City Messene

How might a focus on material process and persistence, rather than preservation and permanence, reorient heritage practice? What new relationships with the past (and the future) emerge from intentional accommodation of transience and decay? When change is inevitable, can we move past discussion of loss and ‘letting go’ to think instead about metamorphosis and ‘letting be’?

Caitlin DeSilvey

Lexicon

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.

Dispatches

Profusion

Profusion at ASA2016 (Social Anthropology Conference)

Homes
Museums

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

Francesco Bandarin
Advisory Board Member

Unesco

Interventions

Publication

Holtorf, C. and Högberg, A. (2015). Archaeology and the future: Managing nuclear waste as a living heritage. In OECD/NEA (Eds.) Radioactive Waste Management and Constructing Memory for Future Generations; 97-101. Nuclear Energy Agency, no. 7259. Paris: OECD.

01/01/2015

Cornelius Holtorf
Anders Högberg

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?

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.

Interventions

Exhibition

Los ecos del Proyecto Huemul

10/07/2017

An exhibition, part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Restricted Access Pilot Project, awarded to Rodney Harrison (Professor of Heritage Studies, UCL Institute of Archaeology) and Trinidad Rico (Director of Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies at Rutgers University and Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL Institute of Archaeology), will be hosted from this week at the Balseiro Institute in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.

Rodney Harrison

Uncertainty
Transformation

Nuclear Waste Management
Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management

Interventions

Talk

Conserving Worlds, Making Futures: Understanding Biological and Cultural Diversity Conservation in Comparative Perspective

27/05/2016 — 29/05/2016

Royal Anthropological Institute Conference ‘Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change’

Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions

07/06/2016

Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Montreal

Rodney Harrison

Dispatches

Profusion

The Ethics of Dust

Interventions

Talk

04/09/2016

IUCN World Conservation Congress, Hawaii

Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Sharon Macdonald
Caitlin DeSilvey
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May
Jennie Morgan
Nadia Bartolini
Antony Lyons

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

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.

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Looking forward to presenting ⁦@AhrcHeritage⁩ funded ⁦@Future_Heritage⁩ research in Weds keynote ⁦@achsukchapter⁩… https://t.co/hsxJADcSPc

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Watch the new short ⁦@Future_Heritage⁩ film “sky tip” a geopoetic mediation on time and loss by ⁦@NOVAdada⁩ soundtr… https://t.co/AkextNffzM

People

Esther Breithoff
Research Associate

Institute of Archaeology

Partners

SKB

The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) has been assigned the task of ...

http://www.skb.se/

Lexicon

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.

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

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