Climate Change

If heritage has conventionally been understood as preservation practices which aim to slow or hold back processes of transformation and decay, how can engage creatively with issues relating to environmental change?

Events

Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving Panel Discussion

Thursday 22 June 2017
09:00 — 17:00 University College London

Pathways and Barriers to Climate Action through Heritage Research

23 July — 23 July 2020
10:00 — 13:30 Webex Cisco Online Platform

ACHS 2020 Heritage Futures

ACHS 2020: Futures – Association of Critical Heritage Studies 5th Biennial Conference

26 August — 30 August 2020 Virtual conference

News
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Reimagining Museums for Climate Action – Winners Announced

Friday 30 October 2020

Videos of our Climate Heritage and Sustainability Half Day Events Now Online

Friday 11 September 2020

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Reimagining Museums for Climate Action: An International Design Competition – Now open

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Image of Europe and Africa at night from Marshall Space Flight

CfP: Archaeology and heritage studies in, of, and after the Anthropocene; Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Conference

Monday 17 June 2019

Rickshaw, Delhi

Work on heritage and climate change at the 19th ICOMOS General Assembly, Delhi, India

Tuesday 16 January 2018

Participation in 19th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Assembly in New Delhi, India

Friday 8 December 2017

Illustration for video of Curated Decay book panel discussion

Curated Decay Book Panel Discussion Video

Thursday 5 October 2017

Case Studies

Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures: heritage in times of accelerated climate change

Monday 17 September 2018

Sounding Coastal Change/Listening to Climate Change: Experiments with Sonic Democracy

Tuesday 6 February 2018

Publications

Harrison, R. and Sterling, C. (2020) Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene. Open Humanitites Press.

2020 Edited Book

Harrison, R., Morel, H., Sterling, C., and Williams, H. (2018) Heritage Research: The AHRC Heritage Priority Area. Archaeology International 21: 1463-1725.

2018 Report

Exploring Heritage in IPCC Documents: A report on research conducted in June 2018 to explore references to heritage within IPCC publications

2018 Report