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Our movable card only exists in a very limited edition in print but is now available on Youtube<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It depicts the scenery in an Iron Age village\u2014and what ended up enriching the soil, feeding life to this day and into the future (click on the image to see the moving bit):<\/p>\n\n\n

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The scene was inspired by recent archaeological excavations conducted by Linnaeus University at Gamla Skogsby in M\u00f6rbyl\u00e5nga on the island of \u00d6land in Sweden.

Drawing: Mats V\u00e4nehem, www.vanehemillustration.com<\/a>
Paper engineering: Kajsa Bornedal, www.kajsabornedal.se<\/a>
Idea and coordination: Cornelius Holtorf<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more details, inspiration and sources of this project see here<\/a>. A broader theoretical discussion linked to this work is available in this new paper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holtorf, C. (2026). Beyond the 1964 Venice Charter: cultural heritage as regeneration (ever changing never less than whole).<\/a> Conservar Patrim\u00f3nio<\/em>, 52<\/em>, 14\u201327. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Nordic TAG in May 2026 in Kalmar<\/a>, I presented on \u201cDevouring the Iron Age: A Life-Centred and Culinary Approach to the Soil\u201d in the session \u201cSoil as Archive, Actor and Ally: Rewilding Archaeological Practice\u201d (which I had co-organised with Ewa Domanska and Christina Fredengren). I served cheese crackers with wild oregano grown in the very soil shown on the card above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch a short video clip of my presentation (with the cheese in the background) here: https:\/\/play.lnu.se\/media\/t\/0_v66b1bak<\/a>

\u00a9 UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden, 2026, lnu.se\/en\/unescochair<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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