Heritage Futures Newsletter, Spring 2019

06/01/2020 Heritage Futures Newsletter, Spring 2019
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Message from the Project Lead

Welcome to the final newsletter from the AHRC-funded
Heritage Futures research programme. Over the past four
years our research team has grown to include 15 members.
We have worked across more than a dozen countries with
more than 25 different partner organisations, each of which
shares a common set of concerns with the preservation of
certain forms of natural or cultural heritage for the future. Through looking closely at
the work of each of these organisations, and comparing them with one another, we
have learned that the futures which each of these organisations assemble and work
towards are incredibly diverse, but nonetheless share common concerns with
building more sustainable worlds. If you have participated in our knowledge
exchanges and presentations over the past four years, we hope you have also been
able to take something away from our research, and that you will keep in contact to
let us know about how it may have impacted on your own work.

We want to take this opportunity to thank all of those who have participated in our
research for their contributions to our work. We particularly thank our advisory board
for their guidance and support. This newsletter features advisory board members
Ingrid Samuel and Tim Badman who reflected on knowledge exchange workshops
and the research programme more generally, and we thank them for sharing their
views.

As we work towards the publication of our final monograph, to be published in open
access by UCL Press in 2020, which summarises the findings of the research
programme, we hope you will take this opportunity to look over our website, which
includes links to our publications (some of which will be published together as part of
a forthcoming guest edited special issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies),
reflections on fieldwork, links to films we have produced as part of our work which
are hosted on our Vimeo channel, and much more.

You can also visit the Heritage Futures exhibition at the Manchester Museum, which
will be on display until Autumn 2021.

Thank you once again for your contributions to and interest in our research.

Rodney Harrison, University College London
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Thank You Book

The Heritage Futures team would The Heritage Futures team is
like to thank all our partners and delighted to announce the
associated collaborators who have forthcoming publication of a book
dedicated their time, resources and exploring research findings on the
insightful contributions towards the programme. Heritage Futures:
research programme. We hope to Comparative Approaches to Natural
continue our collaborations with and Cultural Heritage Practices will
each of you in the future. be published by UCL Press in 2020.
Manchester Museum Exhibition

The Heritage Futures exhibition at Manchester Museum is now open to the public,
and will run until 2021. Curated by Henry McGhie and Rodney Harrison, in
consultation with the Heritage Futures research team, the exhibition explores how
the research programme’s four main themes can be used to involve people in
actively imagining the future they desire for themselves and others. Amongst the
items on display is the Human Bower; you can read creative practitioner Shelley
Castle's Museum visit on her blog
Heritage Futures at ACHS 2018

In September 2018, Heritage Futures took part in the Association of Critical Heritage
Studies 4th biennial conference held in Hangzhou, China. Members of the team ran
seven sessions, one of which was convened by the researchers on the programme,
and titled Toolkits Across Borders: Assembling Methods-futures for Critical Heritage
Studies. The image features Harald Fredheim giving his position paper in the
session.
Profusion in Museums Report

A report on contemporary collecting and disposal in UK museums has been
produced by Harald Fredheim, Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan. The report
highlights the findings from the survey and the knowledge exchange event that took
place in 2018. Download the report
Transforming Loss Knowledge-Exchange

Our final Heritage Futures knowledge-exchange workshop took place in October
2018 in Suffolk, and was developed in collaboration with The National Trust, CITiZAN
and Atkins. It explored heritage management practices and philosophies that seek to
accommodate loss and change. Site visits took place at Orford Ness, and at Orford
Museum located in Orford Castle (photographed). Find out more in this dispatch
Reflections: Ingrid Samuel

During the Transforming Loss knowledge-
exchange event, Heritage Futures
advisory board member Ingrid Samuel
(Historic Environment Director, National
Trust) provided her reflections on the
workshop and the 4-year research
programme. Read her thoughts here
SENSITIVE CHAOS
From April to October 2019, the National Trust site of Orford Ness will be hosting
works by environmental artist, Antony Lyons. As a creative researcher attached to
the Heritage Futures project, Lyons creates ‘geo-poetic’ responses to landscape
situations that are ‘in-between’, and undergoing transformation. The presented
works reflect his explorations with people and landscape, based on visits over the
past two years. Working with invited participants, he uses image and sound
installation pieces to give exposure to human, non-human and biophysical aspects
of this unique place.
This is the second part of the ‘Limbo Landscape Lab’ series, intiated in 2018 in the
heritage landscape of kaolin mining in Cornwall - another ‘Transformation’ case-
study for Heritage Futures. More details can be found here
Reflections: Tim Badman

During the Techniques of Worlding
knowledge-exchange event at Kew in
March 2017, Heritage Futures advisory
board member Tim Badman (Nature-
Culture Initiative Director, IUCN) provided
his views on taking part in the workshop.
Watch the video-recorded interview
Publications

Recent contributions from Heritage Futures team members include the following
selected from the outputs of each of the four themes:
Bartolini, N. and DeSilvey, C. 2019. Recording Loss: film as method and the
spirit of Orford Ness. International Journal of Heritage Studies (advanced
online publishing: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1570311)
Breithoff, E. & Harrison, R. 2018. From ark to bank: extinction, proxies and
biocapitals in ex-situ biodiversity conservation practices. International Journal
of Heritage Studies: 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1512146)
Holtorf, C. 2018. Embracing change: how cultural resilience is increased

through cultural heritage. World Archaeology (advanced online
publishing:https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1510340)
Morgan, J. & Macdonald, S. 2018. De-growing museum collections for new

heritage futures. International Journal of Heritage Studies (advanced online
publishing: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1530289)
More details on these and other publications can be found on our webpage
Memory of Mankind

In November 2018, Antony Lyons traveled to the Memory Of Mankind (MOM) archive
in Austria. While at the studio of MOM creator Martin Kunze, he designed a series of
ceramic ‘tablets’ to represent Heritage Futures in the deep-time repository of
information and stories, which occupies a former salt-mine in the Austrian Alps.
Antony’s atmospheric video of the visit can be seen here:
https://vimeo.com/327037598
Collecting Change/Changing Collections

PhD student Kyle Lee-Crossett produced a report stemming form a workshop he
convened on contemporary collecting, representation, and imagining future practice
in July 2018 at UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies. Focused on sharing
practitioners’ contributions, the report raises both academic and on-the-ground
issues about contemporary collecting practice across a wide range of fields in
archives, social history, and science museums. You can download the report here
Congratulations!
The Heritage Futures Team congratulates the following members for their
achievements:
Robyn Raxworthy, passing her PhD viva examination on her thesis titled
Excavating the Archive: Heritage-making Practices in Cornwall's Clay Country
Esther Breithoff, obtaining a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship grant at
Birkbeck, University of London. She will be working on a 4-year project on
heritage and human rights in South America with the Argentine Forensic
Anthropology Team as main project partner.
Thank you for your lasting contributions to the research programme.
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06/01/2020 Heritage Futures Newsletter, Spring 2019

Message from the Project Lead

Thank You Book

Manchester Museum Exhibition

Heritage Futures at ACHS 2018

Profusion in Museums Report

Transforming Loss Knowledge-Exchange

Reﬂections: Ingrid Samuel

Reﬂections: Tim Badman

Holtorf, C. 2018. Embracing change: how cultural resilience is increased

Morgan, J. & Macdonald, S. 2018. De-growing museum collections for new

Collecting Change/Changing Collections

Thank you for your lasting contributions to the research programme.

@future_heritage Heritage-Futures.org Email

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