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

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.

Caitlin DeSilvey
Nadia Bartolini

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.

People

Ingrid Samuel
Advisory Board Member

National Trust

Cornelius Holtorf
Anders Högberg

Holtorf, C. and Högberg, A. (2015). Contemporary Heritage and the Future. In E. Waterton and S. Watson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research; 509-523. Palgrave.

01/06/2015

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.

Diversity

Svalbard Global Seed Vault: A Tale of Two Treaties

Sefryn Penrose on the cultural heritage of Svalbard and the SGSV’s position there.

Biodiversity

Rodney Harrison
Caitlin DeSilvey

Caitlin DeSilvey and Rodney Harrison. 2019. Anticipating loss: rethinking endangerment in heritage futures. International Journal of Heritage Studies 26 Special Issue

09/01/2020

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

People

Jennie Morgan
Affiliated Researcher

Scale (space and time)

In this project, we have encountered (expanded-)heritage situations on a wide range of scales.

Diversity

What does Doomsday look like?

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is sometimes called the “Doomsday Vault.” Evocation of an apocalypse – red deserts, rats and roaches – is built into that term. But is that how we should really conceive of it?

Biodiversity

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

@AHRCpress ⁦@Future_Heritage⁩ Landscape Futures #adaptation research features in @HistEnvForum #HeritageResponds on… https://t.co/A6RL4YjUaz

Rodney Harrison
Cornelius Holtorf
Sharon Macdonald
Caitlin DeSilvey

Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf, Sharon Macdonald, Nadia Bartolini, Esther Breithoff, Harald Fredheim, Antony Lyons, Sarah May, Jennie Morgan, and Sefryn Penrose. 2020. Heritage Futures Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices. UCL Press.

28/07/2020

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Cornelius DeSilvey. 2017. Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota.

01/03/2017

Caitlin DeSilvey

Stories

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

Significance Assessment

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

Sharon Macdonald
Jennie Morgan

Talk

Curating museum profusion: looking to ethnography of domestic excess for new collecting futures

04/07/2016

Homes
Museums

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.