Heritage Futures | Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

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Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

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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.

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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,

People

Tim Badman
Advisory Board Member

IUCN

Interventions

Film and Sound

Breaking the Wall of the Museum. How anthropology investigates the cultural heritage of the future

Talk by Sharon Macdonald at Falling Walls, the International Conference on Future Breakthroughs in Science and Society.

Sharon Macdonald

Museums

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Stories

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

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Significance Assessment

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

Dispatches

Diversity

The Collections We Want to See: Contemporary Collecting Knowledge Exchange

Museums
Biodiversity
Cultural Diversity

Dispatches

Transformation

Archaeology Training with CITiZAN at Orford Ness

Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Upcoming course/conference on theme of inevitable heritage loss featuring our Co-I Caitlin DeSilvey. Our special is… https://t.co/HkgNBPJRzG

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Legacies

This term is helpful in bringing heritage, which is generally understood to be something which is both endangered and positively valued, into comparative perspective.

Interventions

Talk

Red Squirrel vs. Peter Rabbit: two future concepts in conservation

04/09/2016

IUCN World Conservation Congress, Hawaii

Cornelius Holtorf
Sarah May

Biodiversity

Interventions

Talk

Do we believe that Children are the future

24/06/2015 — 26/06/2015

SHCY: Society for the history of Children and Youth

Sarah May

Interventions

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

People

Esther Breithoff
Affiliated Researcher

Institute of Archaeology

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Diversity

Diversity as a term has lineages in biological theories of evolution, anthropological documentation projects, and, more recently, as an interpretation of multiculturalism and social justice.

Dispatches

Uncertainty

Heritage Futures at the 19th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Assembly in New Delhi, India

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Interventions

Publication

Harrison, R. (2016). World Heritage Listing and the Globalization of the Endangerment Sensibility. In F. Vidal and N. Dias (Eds.), Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture; 195-217. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.

01/01/2016

Rodney Harrison

Partners

Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum

Wheal Martyn Trust was established as a charity in 1974 to preserve the heritage and ...

http://www.wheal-martyn.com

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

Jennie Morgan, keynote speaker at the Canterbury Heritage Awards

Heritage Futures at the 2018 Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference