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“How can we create the future together? We can’t be certain what the future
 will be like, but we can at least try to ensure that the decisions we make today help provide people with the things they might need and want in the future.”

Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg at Linnaeus University as well as Sarah May at Swansea University were involved in research that considered what we should pass on to future generations, when we can’t be sure what they will want or need…

Heritage Futures at Manchester Museum, 14 December 2018 – Autumn 2021

This book breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass migration, where people encounter new cultural heritage and relocate their own. It focuses particularly on issues affecting archaeological heritage sites and artefacts, which help determine and maintain social identity, a role problematised when populations are in flux. This diverse collection brings together international specialists to discuss socio-political and ethical implications for the management of archaeological heritage in global society.

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.

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

“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

“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

Mottot för Europaåret för kulturarv 2018 är “Vårt kulturarv: där historien möter framtiden.” Men kulturarvssektorn är dåligt förberedd för framtiden, tycker Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg i senaste numret av tidskriften Respons (nr. 4, 2018, 7-8). Open access 

We are proud to introduce Ulrika Söderström’s Licentiate Thesis: Contract Archaeology and Sustainable Development. Between Policy and Practice which was defended on 13 Sept 2018. The main aim of her research is to study how heritage and archaeological knowledge can be applied in practice to meet the aims of Agenda 2030, in particular goal no.11 Sustainable cities and communities. See also news

New paper published about archaeology and the future:

Holtorf C. and A. Högberg (2018) Archaeology and the Future. In: C. Smith (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1

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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