Authenticity and Reconstruction
Postat den 5th October, 2020, 17:45 av Cornelius Holtorf
Authenticity and the reconstruction of cultural heritage are today on the top of the agenda of heritage studies. They reemerged in the aftermath of natural disasters and human conflicts resulting in destructions of cultural heritage, such as the recent military conflicts in Syria.
Can, and, indeed, should, destruction be undone? Does the reconstruction of cultural heritage always lie in the best interests of the local population? How can heritage best contribute to future-making? What is the relationship between the values of a given heritage and the circumstances of its creation or re-creation?
The articles in a new special issue on Authenticity and Reconstruction of the International Journal of Cultural Property, edited by Cornelius Holtorf, explore some of these issues:
- Editorial, Cornelius Holtorf
- Heritage, Conflict, and Reconstructions: From Reconstructing Monuments to Reconstructing Societies, Alkindi Aljawabra
- Notes on Authenticity and Development of Cultural Heritage in Syria, Anas Soufan
- Creative Destruction and the Social (Re) Construction of Heritage, Erica Avrami
- What’s Wrong with Fakes? Heritage Reconstructions, Authenticity, and Democracy in Post-Disaster Recoveries, Francesca Piazzoni
- Psychology and World Heritage? Reflections on Time, Memory, and Imagination for a Heritage Context, Ciarán Benson
- Conservation and Heritage As Creative Processes of Future-Making, Cornelius Holtorf
The papers are combining current thinking in different disciplines (psychology, architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, and archaeology) with practical examples from around the world. They derive from the pilot workshop of the ICOMOS University Forum, titled “A Contemporary Provocation: Reconstructions as Tools of Future-making“. Held on 13–15 March 2017 at ICOMOS’s international head- quarters in Paris, France, the workshop was co-organized by Cornelius Holtorf (Linnaeus University, Sweden), Loughlin Kealy (University College Dublin, Ireland), Toshiyuki Kono (ICOMOS/Kyushu University, Japan), and Marie-Laure Lavenir (ICOMOS, France). As an event of the ICOMOS University Forum, its aim was to stimulate dialogue between professional heritage consultants and academic heritage experts.
Det här inlägget postades den October 5th, 2020, 17:45 och fylls under blogg Research results