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.

Dispatches

Transformation

If the Tunnel Tree Falls in the Forest

Natural Heritage Management

Twitter

@HeritageFutures

Coming up to a year since the opening of the @Future_Heritage exhibition @McrMuseum co-curated with @Henry_McGhie f… https://t.co/92GJfA3T6O

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

People

Sarah May
Affiliated Researcher

Institute of Archaeology

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

Transformation

The Spectre of Heritage

Built Heritage Management

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

Dispatches

Transformation

Antony Lyons, Heritage Futures creative researcher, at the Sky Tip (©Joff Winterhart)

Creativity and Stewardship in Changing Landscapes

Natural Heritage Management
Built Heritage Management

Partners

The National Museum of World Cultures

The National Museum of World Cultures (Netherlands) comprises three museums on three different sites- the ...

materialculture.nl

Interventions

Talk

Who Cares? Interventions in 'unloved' musuem collections

06/11/2015

Jennie Morgan

Homes
Museums

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?

People

Harald Fredheim
Research Associate

University of York

Interventions

Talk

Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?

06/06/2016

Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Montreal

Cornelius Holtorf

Interventions

Publication

Heritage Futures team. (2018). Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage. CONTEXT: 155. 22-24.

21/09/2018

Uncertainty
Transformation
Profusion
Diversity

Lexicon

Significance Assessment

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

Interventions

Publication

Högberg, A., and Holtorf, C., 2014 "Nuclear waste as cultural heritage of the future" 14361. In: WM2014 Proceedings WM Symposia

02/03/2014

Cornelius Holtorf
Anders Högberg

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