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

DeSilvey, C. & 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

World Heritage Site Management
Natural Heritage Management

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.

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

“A Library of Life”. Thanks to @frozenzoo & @sdzglobal for productive discussions on cryopreservation, biodiversity… https://t.co/jhGfb4Y7nb

Publication

Holtorf, C. (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

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

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Thanks @HLN82 really pleased to hear you have enjoyed the exhibition and our work! ☺️ https://t.co/g4yD6qhpJD

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,

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.

World Heritage Site Management

(ir)replaceable:a discussion about heritage, conservation and future-making

21/06/2017 — 21/06/2017

Cornelius Holtorf

Natural Heritage Management
Museums

Transformation

Taking the archive for a walk

Partners

York Museums Trust

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

yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk

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

People

Antony Lyons
Creative Fellow

antonylyons.net

Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices

04/06/2016

Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Montreal

Rodney Harrison

Workshop

The Human Bower

19/05/2018

Encounters Arts and Heritage Futures invite you to take part in the making of The Human Bower

Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th May, Torre Abbey Gardens 10am-4pm

A creative event asking: What would you keep for the future?

The Human Bower

Jennie Morgan

Uncertainty
Transformation

Uncertainty

View across the remains of the former experimental reactor

“Los ecos del Proyecto Huemul” exhibition opens in Argentina

Nuclear Waste Management
Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management

Natural Heritage Management
Biodiversity

Uncertainty

Can heritage be thriving in an age of extinction?

People

Harald Fredheim
Research Associate

University of York

Cornelius Holtorf
Sarah May
Antony Lyons

Investigating Heritage Futures

07/09/2016

University of Hawaii HILO