UNESCO

Chair on Heritage Futures

Published in Switzerland: An Archaeology of the Future

2018-09-28

New paper published in Switzerland (in German):

Holtorf C. (2018) “Was hat Archäologie mit mir zu tun? Eine Archäologie der Zukunft.” Archäologie Schweiz 41 (3), 24-29.

Welche Rolle spielt das Kulturerbe in unserer Gesellschaft und wie kann Archäologie zur Bewältigung aktueller und künftiger gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen beitragen? Wie muss sie sich verändern, um zukunftsfähig und gesellschaftlich relevant zu bleiben? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigt sich Cornelius Holtorf an der Linnéuniversität (Kalmar/Växjö, Schweden).

The paper will be made available in open access on 1 Jan 2019.

How best to plan for disaster…

2018-09-25

“How best to plan for disaster….” — 13 Theses for further discussion first presented as part of the session on Disaster-led Archaeology: Anticipations and Responses to Heritage-Impacting Catastrophes, held at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain, September 2018.

The theses are based on the following paper:

Holtorf, C. (2018) Embracing change: how cultural resilience is increased through cultural heritage. World Archaeology 50 (4), Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1510340

Embracing change

2018-09-20

“Cultural resilience, risk preparedness, post-disaster recovery and mutual understanding between people will be best enhanced by an increased ability to accept loss and transformation.”

New article by Cornelius Holtorf about heritage and resilience, available in open access.

Holtorf, C. (2018) Embracing change: how cultural resilience is increased through cultural heritage. World Archaeology50 (4), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1510340

Time travel to the future!

2018-08-28

Cornelius Holtorf commissioned from Kalmar County Museum a time travel role-play to the future. Today we started our project with a Future workshop where several experts and pedagogical museum staff discussed together the year 2068 and how people may live then…

Time travels to the past have been conducted around the world through the International Organisation Bridging Ages.