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.

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.

Rodney Harrison
Esther Breithoff

Publication

Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff. 2017. Archaeologies of the Contemporary World. Annual Review of Anthropology 46: 203-221.

27/07/2017

Publication

Rodney Harrison, Staffan Appelgren, and Anna Bohlin. 2018. Belonging and Belongings: On Migrant and Nomadic Heritages in and for the Anthropocene. In Yannis Hamilakis (ed) The New Nomadic Age: Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration. Equinox, Sheffield; pp. 209-220.

11/09/2018

Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Caitlin DeSilvey
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May
Jennie Morgan
Nadia Bartolini
Antony Lyons
Kyle Lee Crossett

Talk

Afterlives Salon

02/03/2017

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

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

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,

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

Museums
Biodiversity
Cultural Diversity

Diversity

The Collections We Want to See: Contemporary Collecting Knowledge Exchange

Talk

Time travelling and the future of the past

30/06/2017

Cornelius Holtorf

People

Nadia Bartolini
Research Associate

University of Exeter

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

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.

Profusion

Museum storerooms

Museums

Partners

York Museums Trust

York Museums Trust was formed in 2002, as an independent charitable trust to manage the ...

yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk

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

People

Antony Lyons
Creative Fellow

antonylyons.net