UNESCO

Chair on Heritage Futures

Arch Out Loud: Designing a Surface Marker for a Geological Repository of Nuclear Waste for the Benefit of Our Children

2017-12-10

In October 2017, a group of researchers in archaeology at Linnaeus University submitted an entry into the arch out loud competition for designing a Nuclear Landmarker at the site of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

We had been working for the past six years in close collaboration with the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co. (SKB) addressing questions about long-term communication in relation to final repositories of nuclear waste. It seemed the competition was an opportunity to get some of our ideas out there.

(By Cornelius Holtorf, Anders Högberg, and Daniel Lindskog)

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Are heritage futures relevant to UNESCO?

2017-12-02

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?

2017-11-26

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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Om framtidens kulturarv

2017-10-20

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.”

The timeliness of heritage

2017-09-11

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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