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

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

http://www.wheal-martyn.com

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.

Partners

Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum

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

People

Antony Lyons
Creative Fellow

antonylyons.net

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Uncertainty

A Berlin Thought Experiment: Heritage Futures Visits CARMaH

Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices

04/06/2016

Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Montreal

Rodney Harrison

The Challenges of Somali Cultural Heritage for the Dominant Heritage Discourse in Sweden

06/06/2016

Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Montreal

Cornelius Holtorf

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.

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.

Natural Heritage Management
Biodiversity

Uncertainty

Can heritage be thriving in an age of extinction?

Uncertainty

Heritage futures in Interstellar

Christopher Nolan’s movie Interstellar (2014) describes a bold scenario for the future of planet Earth, but Heritage looks the same as ever.

Deep Space Messaging

Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions

07/06/2016

Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Montreal

Rodney Harrison

People

Harald Fredheim
Research Associate

University of York

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.

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Including chapters by DeSilvey, and Breithoff & Harrison drawing on @Future_Heritage #transformation & #diversity r… https://t.co/1CEoi17hmm

Natural Heritage Management

Publication

Þóra Pétursdóttir. 2019. Anticipated futures? Knowing the heritage of drift matter. International Journal of Heritage Studies.

06/06/2019 — 06/06/2019

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

We are excited to announce that our monograph “Heritage Futures: Comparitive Approaches to Natural and Cultural Her… https://t.co/bmSF8sR9vT

Who Cares? Interventions in 'unloved' musuem collections

06/11/2015

Jennie Morgan

Homes
Museums

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