Heritage and the Anthropocene – Foreseeing Futures

The 3-day Bootcamp is dedicated to the topical issue of the relationship between the Anthropocene and heritage. Building on the seminal work Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene by Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling (2020), and on the ICCROM’s Foresight Initiative (2021) Anticipating futures for heritage, we propose to look at two main interlinked aspects of the Anthropocene and heritage, namely the spatial and the temporal dimension of heritage and Anthropocene as well as the ways in which they challenge and trouble the categories of ‘human’, ‘non-human’ and ‘other-than-human’. We will look at heritage, and its presence within the Anthropocene issue, “not as a nostalgic longing for how things were, but as a means of expanding our collective imagination” (Harrison & Sterling 2020), thus thinking differently about the temporalities and territories of heritage.