Heritage Futures | Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

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

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.

People

Saida Engstrom
Advisory Board Member

SKB

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

For those in Stockholm we will be presenting ⁦⁦@UCLarchaeology⁩ #diversity work w/ ⁦⁦@GlobalSeedVault⁩ & ⁦… https://t.co/TAf4IRXv8a

Dispatches

Uncertainty

Performing the Processes and Challenges of Early Career Researchers

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Interventions

Publication

Holtorf, C. (2017). The Archaeology of Time Travel. Archaeopress, Oxford.

01/06/2017

Cornelius Holtorf

Lexicon

Stories

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

Interventions

Publication

Högberg, A. (2016) To renegotiate heritage and citizenship beyond essentialism, Archaeological Dialogues, Volume 23 Issue 01

20/05/2016

Anders Högberg

Partners

Associação Transumância e Natureza (ATN)

Associação Transumância e Natureza (ATN) is a non profit environmental NGO, created in 2000, at ...

http://www.atnatureza.org

Interventions

Film and Sound

What will our future memories be?

09/12/2015

Interview with Sharon Macdonald on CCCBLAB

Sharon Macdonald

Museums

Lexicon

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,

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

Lexicon

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.

Dispatches

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

Lexicon

Forever

Forever is a luxury brand evoking quality. What do these kinds of branding do? What kinds of practices do they engender? How do they draw on pasts? Do they draw on different pasts?

Dispatches

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

Interventions

Publication

Bartolini, N. & DeSilvey, C. 2019. Recording Loss: film as method and the spirit of Orford Ness. International Journal of Heritage Studies.

Read the article here

Caitlin DeSilvey
Nadia Bartolini

Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management

Lexicon

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.

People

Kyle Lee Crossett
PhD Student

Institute of Archaeology

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