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

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.

People

Sefryn Penrose
Research Associate

Institute of Archaeology

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Talk

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.

The 100,000 Year Question

Nuclear Waste Management
Deep Space Messaging
Built Heritage Management
Museums
Biodiversity

Cornelius Holtorf. 2017. The Heritage of Rupture [Review of Patina: A Profane Archaeology. Shannon Lee Dawdy, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2016 & Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City. Trinidad Rico, Routledge, New York, NY, 2016 ]. Historical Archaeology, 51(2): 302-304.

15/06/2017

Cornelius Holtorf

Stories

In museums of the contemporary everyday, ‘stories’ is a term that has repeatedly been used by those with whom we have talked.

Dispatches

Uncertainty

Dark heritage and toxic waste

Significance Assessment

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

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

Rodney Harrison et al. 2016. Heritage Futures. Archaeology International 19: 68–72.

12/12/2016

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

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.

Sarah May. 2019. Heritage, endangerment and participation: alternative futures in the Lake District. International Journal of Heritage Studies.

28/06/2019

Sarah May

Partners

ICOMOS

We work with ICOMOS on the development of policy advice. It is a non-governmental international ...

icomos.org

Dispatches

Uncertainty

Time, timelessness and World Heritage

Cornelius Holtorf
Anders Högberg

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