Heritage Futures | Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

Homes
Museums
Cultural Diversity

Transformation

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

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

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

Publication

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.

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,

Workshop

Collecting Change/Changing Collections

27/07/2018

Heritage Futures PhD researcher Kyle Lee-Crossett will be hosting a day-long workshop together with archive and museum professionals from a wide range of disciplines to reflect on and discuss the goals and challenges of contemporary collecting, particularly in regards to representing diverse communities and environments in London and beyond.

Date: 27/07/18
Location: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

Kyle Lee Crossett

Autonomy

When we say something has ‘autonomy’ we usually mean that it is free from external control or influence. In academic debates, some have argued that autonomy is the defining quality of rewilding initiatives

Profusion

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

Homes
Museums

Scale (space and time)

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

People

Kyle Lee Crossett
PhD Student

Institute of Archaeology

People

Robyn Raxworthy
PhD Student

University of Exeter

Significance Assessment

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

What not to collect? Materials, objects, stories...

13/01/2017

Sharon Macdonald will be speaking at the International Symposium ‘Object Lesson Nr 9. Material and Knowledge’ within the framework of the Exhibition ‘Object Lessons. The Story of Material Education in 8 Chapters’. Venue: Museum der Dinge, Berlin.

Sharon Macdonald

Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management

Media coverage

Thinking Allowed: Heritage and Preservation

26/06/2017

Caitlin DeSilvey discusses her new book as a guest on the Radio 4 programme.

Caitlin DeSilvey

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.

Curating profusion: assembling heritage futures in homes and museums

28/11/2017

Jennie Morgan will give a talk on the Profusion research theme at the University of Stirling Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy seminar series.

Jennie Morgan

Homes
Museums

Partners

International Union for the Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), founded in 1948, works to coordinate and ...

http://www.iucn.org/

Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?

06/06/2016

Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Montreal

Cornelius Holtorf