UNESCO

During the 23-24 November 2017 meeting, the message of the responsible UNESCO staff to the assembled UNESCO Chairs (and representatives of some other UNESCO programmes) in the area of culture came across loud and clear: UNESCO would like to receive from us concrete evidence for how culture including heritage can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as suggested in the Agenda 2030 adopted in 2015.

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Can heritage be thriving in an age of extinction? Reading Chris D Thomas (2017), Inheritors of the Earth. How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction. Allen Lane. 

Will human interference on Earth during the Anthropocene imply a massive amount of species going extinct and a serious loss of biodiversity, as we sometimes are being told? Do we need to act now to reduce the damage our descendants will suffer as a result of the loss of much of our natural heritage?

(By Cornelius Holtorf and Robyn Raxworthy)

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The Heritage Futures project is about bringing together practitioners from different sectors of society and making them reflect about their future-making practices from innovative perspectives and in unconventional ways. One such match-making involves the cultural heritage and nuclear waste sectors.

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Jag blev intervjuad på Västarvsbloggen och diskuterar bland annat historia, hållbarhet och High Chaparall… Hann Ljungberg ansvarade för intervjun och skrev senare att mina svar “ger perspektiv som vi vanligtvis inte brukar få in när vi frågar människor om vad natur- och kulturarv betyder för dem.”

Ironically, heritage is often conceived of as timeless. World, European and national heritage are protected with the intention to provide benefits for future generations. That future is a future to continue forever; these future generations are all future generations we can imagine.

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Today the agreement was signed by the Director General of UNESCO and the Vice-Chancellor of Linnaeus University about the establishment of a UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures.