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

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

Publication

Caitlin DeSilvey and Nadia Bartolini. 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 examined disposal across different heritage domains, considering the potential for ‘imaginative decommissioning’ (DeSilvey 2017) and the possible differences between disposing in cultural and natural heritage realms.

Publication

Cornelius Holtorf. 2017. The Archaeology of Time Travel. Archaeopress, Oxford.

01/06/2017

Cornelius Holtorf

People

Saida Engstrom
Advisory Board Member

SKB

Significance Assessment

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

Rodney Harrison
Caitlin DeSilvey

Workshop

Heritage Futures at Future Fest

06/07/2018 — 07/07/2018

6-7 July 2018

In partnership with the AHRC Heritage Priority Area, we have been invited to programme two panels across two days for this year’s FutureFest, Europe’s largest Festival of the Future. Join us, along with project partners and friends of the project, for “Frozen Futures” on Friday and “Curated Decay” on Saturday.

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Partners

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is an international research centre into biodiversity in several fields. ...

http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/collections

People

Antony Lyons
Creative Fellow

antonylyons.net

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

Dualism

While conducting interviews for the Transformation theme, we came across a number of instances where people discuss a particular issue that can be both positive and negative.

Sharon Macdonald
Jennie Morgan

Workshop

Curating domestic profusion

17/03/2016

The New School House Gallery, York

Homes
Museums

Read this publication HERE.

Publication

Rodney Harrison. 2018. On Heritage Ontologies: Rethinking the Material Worlds of Heritage. Anthropological Quarterly 91(4).1365-1383.

24/01/2019

Rodney Harrison

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,

Profusion

Pearls

Homes

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.

Built Heritage Management
Cultural Diversity

Diversity

Oranges and Lemons: When is the Heritage of Diversity?

London's Brick Lane mosque listing description asks difficult questions about how past and present are integrated in heritage management, and whether we are as bold in what we do with heritage as in what we say about it.