Heritage Futures | Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

Diversity

How are biological, cultural, genetic, and linguistic diversity categorised and conserved, and what can one field learn from another?...

Dispatches

Transformation

Heritage, Change and the 'Second-Generation' Phenomenon: Traditional Craft and Revitalization in Jingdezhen

Homes
Museums
Cultural Diversity

Interventions

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.

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Interventions

Publication

DeSilvey, C. and Bartolini, N. (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

Caitlin DeSilvey
Nadia Bartolini

World Heritage Site Management
Natural Heritage Management

Lexicon

We examine disposal across different heritage domains, and consider the potential for ‘imaginative decommissioning’ (DeSilvey 2017) and the possible differences between disposing in cultural and natural heritage realms.

Partners

Association of Independent Museums

AIM is a national charitable organisation which connects, supports and represents independent museums, galleries and ...

http://www.aim-museums.co.uk

Interventions

Talk

'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

Built Heritage Management

Dispatches

Transformation

Libertação de Cavalos

Natural Heritage Management

Lexicon

Stories

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

People

Caitlin DeSilvey
Co-Investigator

University of Exeter

Interventions

Talk

Curating Profusion: Assembling Heritage Futures in Homes and Museums

23/02/2018

An invited talk by Jennie Morgan at the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, Southern Regional Office.

@Sarah_May1 Oh, we already do! This comes up a lot in #Profusion - Museums experience profusion, but there is also… https://t.co/nnFSj2GBFd

Interventions

Publication

Macdonald, S. (2016) Review of Haidy Geismar, Treasured Possessions. Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property (Duke University Press). In JRAI, 22: 237-38.

25/01/2016

Sharon Macdonald

Museums

Lexicon

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.

People

Robyn Raxworthy
PhD Student

University of Exeter

Interventions

Publication

Macdonald, S. (2015) Moving between anthropologies in and on Europe. In ‘Forum: Rethinking Euro-Anthropology Part Two’, Social Anthropology 23(4): 492-509.

25/11/2015

Follow #Profusion for updates from Museums for Profusion https://t.co/hdMi6njIGE. We'll post copies of all… https://t.co/qjVUcY9VyO

Lexicon

Dualism

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

Interventions

Film and Sound

Is the Lake District a Rural Area?

21/10/2016

Video of a talk at the 2016 CHAT conference

Sarah May

World Heritage Site Management

Exploring alternative ways of shaping future legacies and assembling common worlds across different fields of conservation practice

Uncertainty

How is the uncertainty of the deep future conceived of and managed in different fields of conservation practice? ...

Transformation

What values are associated with heritage structures and landscapes that are allowed to undergo transformation and change?...

Profusion

How do museums and people in their homes decide what to keep in the face of mass production and consumption?...

Diversity

How are biological, cultural, genetic, and linguistic diversity categorised and conserved, and what can one field learn from another?...

LIMBO LANDSCAPE LAB @ Wheal Martyn

Assembling and Conserving Biodiversity in a Frozen Ark

Recording Loss at Orford Ness

How does heritage work when we’re ‘Living in the Future’?

Heritage, Change and the 'Second-Generation' Phenomenon: Traditional Craft and Revitalization in Jingdezhen

Heritage Futures at the 2018 Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference

DeSilvey, C. and Bartolini, N. (2018). Where horses run free? Autonomy, temporality, and rewilding in the Côa Valley, Portugal. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2018: 1-16.