Heritage Futures | Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

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.

Caitlin DeSilvey
Nadia Bartolini

DeSilvey, C. & 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

World Heritage Site Management
Natural Heritage Management

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.

Macdonald, S. (2016) Review of Haidy Geismar, Treasured Possessions. Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property (Duke University Press). In JRAI, 22: 237-38.

25/01/2016

Travelling into the Future… Taking the Profusion-theme to New Zealand

Homes
Museums

Talk

Bikuben Prize Conference: Considering Exhibitions

23/08/2015

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Our @Future_Heritage exhibition is now open at @McrMuseum until Autumn 2021 https://t.co/nhDkCv3hUm #HelloFuture… https://t.co/Ck5VKcWcmz

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

21/09/2018

Harald Fredheim

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,

People

Sefryn Penrose
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/

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.

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

@HilaryOrange @NOVAdada @McrMuseum @AhrcHeritage @DrJennie_Morgan @Sarah_May1 @EverydayElvis @shelleycastle1… https://t.co/maY1yCGTxx

Dispatches

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

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.

Rodney Harrison
Esther Breithoff

Breithoff, E. & Harrison, R. 2018. From ark to bank: extinction, proxies and biocapitals in ex-situ biodiversity conservation practices. International Journal of Heritage Studies.

21/09/2018

Natural Heritage Management
Biodiversity

People

Tim Badman
Advisory Board Member

IUCN

Dispatches

Uncertainty

Waiting for the Big One

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.

DeSilvey, C. (2017). Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota.

01/03/2017

Caitlin DeSilvey