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
Museums
Cultural Diversity

Diversity

Radical BAME Youth Heritage Project

Uncertainty

A Contemporary Provocation: Reconstruction as tools of future-making

Sharon Macdonald
Jennie Morgan

Publication

Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan. 2018. How can we know the future? Uncertainty, transformation, and magical techniques of significance assessment in museum collecting. Assessment of Significance. Berlin: Deutsches Historisches Museum, pp.20-26

10/04/2018

Museums

People

Nadia Bartolini
Research Associate

University of Exeter

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

09/10/2015

University of Southampton Archaeology Seminar Series and the Centre for Transnational Studies in Modern Languages

Rodney Harrison

http://www.frozenark.org/

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,

Partners

The Frozen Ark

The IUCN maintains a ‘red list’ of the state of the world’s taxa, and monitors ...

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.

Uncertainty

Heritage is often said to be the human legacy preserved for the benefit of future generations. A major challenge in this logic lies in how to overcome the future’s inherent uncertainty.

Profusion

Sorting through (ethnographic) things: reflections on Profusion theme fieldwork

Homes
Museums

Rodney Harrison
Sefryn Penrose
Sarah May

Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

05/10/2015

UCL Insitute of Archaeology departmental seminar

Uncertainty
Diversity

Built Heritage Management

'Looking to the Future of Historic Urban Landscape Research: the view from the AHRC’s future heritage strategy'.

21/03/2017 — 22/03/2017

A talk by Rodney Harrison at the ‘Historic Urban Landscape Forum’. Event hosted by the Bartlett UCL, in co-ordination with the UNESCO AD-G Culture, at University College London.

Rodney Harrison