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

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.

Built Heritage Management

Publication

Trinidad Rico. 2018. Reclaiming post-disaster narratives of loss in Indonesia. International Journal of Heritage Studies.

19/12/2018

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

Conserving Worlds, Making Futures: Understanding Biological and Cultural Diversity Conservation in Comparative Perspective

27/05/2016 — 29/05/2016

Royal Anthropological Institute Conference ‘Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change’

Rodney Harrison

Nuclear Waste Management
Built Heritage Management
Museums

Uncertainty

Making futures and making connections across sectors

People

Saida Engstrom
Advisory Board Member

SKB

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Uncertainty

Manchester Museum, One Year On

Futures of Safety and Adventure, (Re)Enchanting the Future

26/11/2015

Sarah May

Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time: Enchantment

Sarah May

Forever

Forever is a luxury brand evoking quality. What do these kinds of branding do? What kinds of practices do they engender? How do they draw on pasts? Do they draw on different pasts?

Partners

ICOMOS

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

icomos.org

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

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Uncertainty

From the Vault to the Archive

Nuclear Waste Management
Deep Space Messaging
Built Heritage Management
Museums
Biodiversity
Cultural Diversity

Cornelius Holtorf
Anders Högberg

Publication

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