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 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.

Lexicon

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

Interventions

Talk

The Future Telescope

25/02/2015

Research Seminar, Globalizing Heritage, Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, Göteborg University, Room E509, 16:30-18:00.

Cornelius Holtorf

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

Loyd Grossman
Advisory Board Member

The Heritage Alliance

Interventions

Talk

Futures of Safety and Adventure, (Re)Enchanting the Future

26/11/2015

Sarah May

Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time: Enchantment

Sarah May

Partners

Memory of Mankind

Memory of Mankind – MOM – preserves the stories about our era and saves them ...

https://www.memory-of-mankind.com/

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Our ⁦⁦@ahrcpress⁩ ⁦@AhrcHeritage⁩ follow-on project with ⁦@nationaltrust⁩ ⁦@HistoricEngland⁩ ⁦@NaturalEngland⁩ Land… https://t.co/nleYrEPY5i

Lexicon

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

Interventions

Publication

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

Cornelius Holtorf
Anders Högberg

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Should we cull one species to save another? #diversity #profusion #transformation #uncertainty #values… https://t.co/ykIo2ZpKUm

Dispatches

Transformation

The Spectre of Heritage

Built Heritage Management

People

Harald Fredheim
Research Associate

University of York

Dispatches

Diversity

Oranges and Lemons: When is the Heritage of Diversity?

London's Brick Lane mosque listing description asks difficult questions about how past and present are integrated in heritage management, and whether we are as bold in what we do with heritage as in what we say about it.

Built Heritage Management
Cultural Diversity

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.

Interventions

Talk

Curating Profusion: Assembling Heritage Futures in Homes and Museums

23/02/2018

An invited talk by Jennie Morgan at the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, Southern Regional Office.

‘Tomorrow starts here’: earthquakes, heritage, and the rebuilding of a city

In light of the most recent earthquake to strike Christchurch (New Zealand) on 14 February 2016, our researcher Jennie Morgan considers the rebuilding of a city and its heritage through Profusion theme interests.

Transformation
Profusion

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

Workshop

A Berlin Thought Experiment: Heritage Futures Visits CARMaH

26/04/2017 — 28/04/2017

A Heritage Futures Knowledge Exchange Workshop, held in partnership with the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage in Berlin.

Jennie Morgan

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Nuclear Waste Management
Deep Space Messaging
World Heritage Site Management
Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management
Homes
Museums
Biodiversity
Cultural Diversity

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