Progress Report 09/2023-08/2024 UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures
Progress Report UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures
Period: 09/2023 – 08/2024
About the UNESCO Chair
The UNESCO Chair Programme addresses pressing challenges in society. The Chairs serve as think tanks and bridge-builders between the academic world, civil society, local communities, research and policy-making, generating innovation through research, informing policy decisions, and establishing new teaching initiatives. The UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University is one of eight UNESCO Chairs in Sweden and the only one in Sweden in the area of culture.
The concept of 'Heritage Futures' stands at the intersection of past legacies and tomorrow's possibilities. How can our present-day conservation practices shape the world of tomorrow? It's not just about safeguarding relics of the past, but about making them resonate in an evolving world full of challenges. How can futures literacy and foresight help us design the heritage of tomorrow? We develop strategies that can enhance how heritage shapes the future and build global capacity for futures thinking among heritage professionals.
Authors: Professor Cornelius Holtorf, Chairholder and Helena Rydén, Assistant to the Chair
Map p.5 and p.14-15 by Stephanie Carleklev
Date: 18 October 2024
The ideas and opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors; they are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not imply any commitment by the Organization.
Training Resources
What are Heritage Futures and why do they matter? The Chair provides free training resources online to enhance futures thinking and futures literacy in relation to culture and heritage. We collected examples in a leaflet, presented on several occassions during the year.
Find out more at https://lnu.se/en/unescochair (under Training Resources). We will be continuously updating and improving these resources.
Team
Dr Cornelius Holtorf, Professor of Archaeology and holder of the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University. Director of the Graduate School in Contract Archaeology (GRASCA).
Dr EMILY HANSCAM, Researcher at Linnaeus University. Her projects apply techniques from the digital humanities to explore ongoing entanglements between nationalism and archaeological discourse, working towards developing a better critical understanding of the past for negotiating the global future.
Dr Anders Högberg, Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University. Special fields of interest are heritage studies and human cognitive evolution.
Not in the picture:
DR gustav wollentz, is a Senior Lecturer at Linnaeus University focussing on critical heritage studies.
Dr Claudio Pescatore, Affiliated Researcher. A nuclear engineer, previously at the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the OECD, special field of interest is the preservation of memory.
A mix of committed individuals from different countries, with different specialisms and at different stages in their careers. From left Anders Högberg, Leila Papoli-Yazdi, Annalisa Bolin, Sarah May, Cornelius Holtorf, Helena Rydén and Emily Hanscam.
Dr Sarah May, Affiliated Researcher. She is currently working with ButCH, a collective of heritage consultants with a background in Heritage Futures and currently focused on strategy and policy for community development and climate change.
Dr Leila Papoli-Yazdi, Affiliated Researcher. She researches the dirty heritage of modern civilization; garbage, waste, and consumption. She runs a company: Garbonomix is providing waste management consultation to businesses and households.
Helena Rydén, Assistant to the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures.
Ulrika Söderström, PhD student at Linnaeus University, is in the final stages of her doctoral research investigating how futures are created in modern urban planning and development using cultural heritage as a resource and the consequences these practices can have on social sustainability.
Introduction
This report covers the seventh year of the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University.
Among the highlights of the year were several global occasions at which our Chair could contribute with perspectives on heritage futures. This included the ICOMOS General Assembly 2023 held in Sydney, Australia, where I was chairing a well-attended panel, the Dubai Future Forum in Dubai, UAE, where I contributed to a dedicated session, and UNESCO World Futures Day 2023 in December at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris where I was running a topical plenary panel.
This spring, I spent three months as a Conservation Guest Scholar at the Getty in Los Angeles, USA. My project was entitled “Heritage in Transformation” and explored how, in a world where the future is not what it used to be, we can conceptualize the past and practice cultural heritage in correspondingly new ways.
On various occasions throughout the year, we had the chance to meet and connect with UNESCO Chairholders from different corners of the world, working on culture,
heritage, the future, and other questions. Such meetings and exchanges of views are always stimulating and important, not the least as it contributes to strengthening global trust and joint multilateral engagements for a better world.
This report is published shortly after the 2024 UN Summit of the Future has been held in New York. The Summit agreed on a global Part for the Future and a Declaration on Future Generations, both of which referring to culture and cultural heritage. It will be exciting to follow how this will strengthen the case for heritage futures in Sweden and the other UN member states across the years to come.
Please get in touch if you have any comments or suggestions!
Cornelius Holtorf, Professor of Archaeology, and holder of the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures
How Does Culture Shape Tomorrow? In a well attended session in November 2023 at Dubai Future Forum in Dubai, UAE, we wanted to introduce the concept of heritage futures to the global futurists.
The conference had 800 participants from close to 100 countries, and ended only two days before the start of COP28 for which some participants stayed on.
From left Rashid Bin Shabib (moderator), Professor Richard Sandford and Professor Cornelius Holtorf.
Map of the Chair´s activities 09/2023– 08/2024 (selection)
Activities
Education and Training
» Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg co-organized and co-ran (with C. Kavazanjian, UNESCO, Paris, N. Christophilopoulos, UNESCO Chair on Futures Research, Greece, and M. Packer, OECD/NEA, Paris) the first Futures Literacy Laboratory in collaboration between UNESCO and OECD/NEA. Dedicated to exploring “The Future of Human Responses to Deep Geological Repositories” a total 17 international participants were present at the Lab which was held at the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) in Stockholm (25 September 2023).
» Gustav Wollentz presented online as invited speaker some of his work on heritage futures to students and teachers at the Technische Hochschule Köln, 22 October 2024. The workshop was named Playmode cultural heritage and foresight workshop (22 October 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf lectured for three hours on “Cultural and heritage tourism – making choices for the future” for three students taking the advanced-level course on Tourism and Sustainability in the Anthropocene 15 credits in Tourism and Recreation Studies at Linnaeus University, Kalmar (24 October 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf co-ran a full-day workshop in Stockholm with 12 national heritage experts attending, forming part of a project on cultural heritage compensation for the Swedish Transport Adminstration (25 October 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf lectured at Linnaeus University, Kalmar for a class of undergraduate students in Archaeology on “Archaeology, Climate, and Sustainability” (15 December 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf lectured at Linnaeus University, Kalmar for a class of undergraduate students in Cultural Policy on “Global Cultural Policy” (19 December 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf held a mini future workshop for the staff of the Dept. of Collections at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, USA (1 March 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf ran a 20-minute exercise facilitating discussion among participants about assumptions about the future for ca. 60 senior Getty staff participating in the first Getty Sustainability Convening dedicated specifically to collection environments research and practice (Los Angeles, 28 March 2024).
» Anders Högberg and Cornelius Holtorf taught a course entitled “Futures literacy for humanities research (4.5 credits)” for a group of PhD students in Global Humanities at Linnaeus University. The course provided the participating students with basic skills in analysing and understanding relationships between present and future societies in global perspectives and related to their own research (April-May 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf gave a seminar on “Heritage Futures” for 12 students taking the MA course on Humanistic Theories in Materiality at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen (10 May 2024).
» Sarah May and colleagues are delivering a course on Heritage Research Skills and Storytelling for Volunteers associated with a regeneration project in Pembrokeshire, Wales (July 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg ran a mini futures workshop for 30+ colleagues during the kickoff meeting of the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University, Sweden (20 August 2024).
Rebecca Tadesse, Head of Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning Division at OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, welcomes participants to the first Futures Literacy Laboratory in collaboration between UNESCO and OECD/NEA. Dedicated to exploring “The Future of Human Responses to Deep Geological Repositories”. The Lab was held at the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) in Stockholm 25 September 2023. Photo: Cornelius Holtorf.
Research
Some research highlights of the past year included the following:
Heritage in Transformation
Cornelius Holtorf spent time in Los Angeles, USA as a Getty Conservation Guest Scholar. During this time he was concerned with a project entitled “Heritage in Transformation”. His main question was this: if the future will be (and must be) changing in relation to future challenges such as the climate crisis, what does that mean for how the past and cultural heritage will be changing and have to change? (January through March 2024).
Strategic Foresight
The heritage sector has up until now seldom engaged with Strategic Foresight to better prepare for – and proactively face – different futures. In 2021, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), as part of its Foresight Initiative, employed Strategic Foresight to anticipate different futures for the heritage sector globally. This was done to increase resilience in the face of a changing world and outline possible opportunities for action.
Gustav Wollentz, from the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures, is one of the authors of a recent topical study commissioned by ICCROM. Cornelius Holtorf contributed as an expert advisor. As part of this work, ICCROM had launched a horizon scan study to gather intelligence about possible macro-environmental changes that might affect cultural heritage in the future.
The project engaged an interdisciplinary team of 18 researchers and two advisors from different world regions who collectively generated over 60 research reports looking out over a 15-year horizon. On 30 August, Cornelius Holtorf, Anders Högberg, and Gustav Wollentz visited ICCROM in Rome and discussed future collaborations.
Cultural entrepreneurship
Anders Högberg is PI for project InKuis (Innovativt kulturentreprenörskap i samverkansforskning), funded by The Kamprad Family Foundation. The InKuiS project builds new cultural entrepreneurial knowledge through collaborative co-creative research. The project encompasses universities, cultural institutions, independent cultural creators, businesses, and regional and municipal cultural administrations. Through this diversity, the project aims to enrich cultural values and strengthen entrepreneurship, thus fostering regional attractiveness, social sustainability, development, and growth for the future.
Digital Humanities
Emily Hanscam worked on a number of initiatives related to critical cultural heritage and the digital humanities. She was named to the Digital Transformations Knowledge Environment Operational Group at Linnaeus University, taking a leading role in organising the 3rd Annual Symposium on Digital Transformations. She also continued to provide support for Sweden’s projects related to building digital humanities infrastructure, including assisting with Sweden’s application to join DARIAH-EU.
Cornelius Holtorf spent January through March 2024 in Los Angeles, USA as a Getty Conservation Guest Scholar. During this time he was concerned with a project entitled “Heritage in Transformation”. The photo is a view from the building. Photo: Cornelius Holtorf.
Publications
Buchanan, B. & E. Hanscam. 2023. Rivers and walls: the materiality of Roman frontier waterscapes on Hadrian’s Wall and the Lower Danube. In Tibbs, A. & P. Campbell (eds) Rivers and Waterways in the Roman Empire: 228–244. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003277613-18
Dezhamkhooy, M. and L. Papoli-Yazdi (2024) Education Is Life: Collective Experiences of Practising the Archaeology of the Contemporary Past in a Conservative Atmosphere. In G.Moshenska (ed.) Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Pp. 225-239.
Duncan, R., E. Marcussen, M. Classon Frangos & E. Hanscam. 2023. The Emergency Has Already Happened. Environment and History 29(4): 479–482. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734023X 16945097374245
Hanscam, E. & C. Holtorf (2023) Rooted in the future. A cultural ecology of the Sycamore Gap tree. Current Archaeology December 2023, 48-50.
Hanscam, E. & C. Holtorf (2024) A Living Wall. In: David J. Breeze (ed.) Hadrian's Wall in our Time, pp. 201-2. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Hanscam, E. & J. Karavas (eds), 2023. The Roman Lower Danube Frontier: Innovations in Theory and Practice. Oxford: Archaeopress. https://doi.org/10.32028/9781803276625
Heritage, A., Iwasaki, A., Wollentz, G. (2023). Anticipating Futures for Heritage: ICCROM Foresight Initiative Horizon Scan Study 2021. International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM). https://www.iccrom.org/publication/anticipating-futures-heritage
Högberg, A. & Holtorf, C. (2023) Heritage practices and the mobilization of society in times of conflict: We can do better. The European Archaeologist (TEA) (78, autumn 2023), 64-66.
Högberg, A. & Holtorf, C. (2024). Museum futures and other heritage futures. In R. Poli (ed.) Handbook of Futures Studies, pp. 145– 156. Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035301607.00017
Holtorf, C. (2024) The Climate Heritage Paradox – how rethinking archaeological heritage can address global challenges of climate change. World Archaeology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/00438243.2024.2320122
Holtorf, C. (2024) Afterword: Challenges. In: P. E. Quast and D. Dunér (eds) Speaking Beyond Earth: Perspectives on Messaging Across Deep Space and Cosmic Time, pp. 203-205. Jefferson: McFarland & Co.
Holtorf, C. (2024) Regenerating Heritage Processes and Practices in Historical Reconstruction. In: Z. Somhegyi and L. Giombini (eds) The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Architectural Reconstruction, pp. 97-106. London and New York: Routledge.
Holtorf, C. (2024) The road to anywhere. Rooted cosmopolitanism in the universe. In: L. W. Kruijer, M. J. Versluys, and I. Lilley (eds) Rooted Cosmopolitanism, Heritage and the Question of Belonging, pp. 256-264. London and New York: Routledge.
Holtorf, C. (2024) Destruição e reconstrução do patrimônio cultural como produção do future. In: G. Benevides & W. Lowande (eds) Estudos Críticos de Patrimônio: Abordagens Transnacionais, pp. 61-77. São Paolo: Tirant Brasil. [Portuguese translation of my 2020 paper “Destruction and Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage as Future-Making”].
Holtorf, C. (2024) Taking care of nuclear waste (visual essay). In: E. Kryder-Reid and S. May (eds) Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice, pp. 325-31. London and New York. Routledge. Open access, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365259-36
Holtorf, C. (2024) Is Conservation Sustainable? Imagining a World of Change. FoodImagine Guest Blog (13 July 2024), https://foodimagine.org/2024/07/13/is-conservation-sustainable-imagining-a-world-of-change/
Holtorf, C. & Bolin, A. (2024). Heritage futures: A conversation. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 14(2), 252–265. https://doi.org/10.1108/jchmsd-09-2021-0156
Panhuman identity? Toys and other plastic artefacts of the 20th century washed ashore on English beaches. Original illustration by Tracey Williams as part of the Lego Lost at Sea project (Williams 2022) from the article by Cornelius Holtorf that has reached more than 2000 views:
The Climate Heritage Paradox – how rethinking archaeological heritage can address global challenges of climate change.
Holtorf, C. & Högberg, A. (2024) Archaeology and the Future. In: T. Rehren and E. Nikita (eds), Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2nd Edition, vol. 1, pp. 652–659, London: Academic Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00112-9
Holtorf, C. & Myrup Kristensen, T. (2024) Reconsidering Heritage Destruction and Sustainable Development in a LongTerm Perspective. In: J. A. González Zarandona, E. Cunliffe, and M. Saldin (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction, pp. 413-423. London and New York: Routledge.
Holtorf, C. & Smits, V. (2023) Kulturmiljöstärkande åtgärder i transportinfrastrukturprojekt. En förstudie för Trafikverket. Kalmar: Linnéuniversitetet. Available at https://fudinfo.trafikverket.se/fudinfoexternwebb/Publikationer/Publikationer_007601 _007700/Publikation_007648/Rapport_Holtorf%20Smits%202023.pdf, 79 pp.
Holtorf, C. & Wei, B. (2023) Nachhaltigkeit – Erhalten und Veränderung. Ein Sokratischer Dialog. In: Y. Siegmund, I. Jessen and U. Bildstein (eds) Angst, Ekel, Scheitern. Ein Austausch, pp. 16-18. Berlin. Urbanophil. Karavas, J. & E. Hanscam. 2023. The Lower Danube limes: recentering a Roman frontier province. In Hanscam, E. & J. Karavas (eds) The Roman Lower Danube Frontier: Innovations in Theory and Practice: 1– 12. Oxford: Archaeopress. May, S. (2024) Review of Hadrian's Wall: Exploring Its Past to Protect Its Future, edited by Marta Alberti and Katie Mountain, Archaeopress 2022. Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 7(1):1-3. https://traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/16945/ Papoli-Yazdi, L., and M. Sabaghi (2024) Hidden Behind the Curtains of Inequality in Tehran: Reading Documents on Healthcare Marketing Found in a Trash Can by Garbologists. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 10 (2):211–228. Reinhold, S. & C. Holtorf, with contributions by A. Högberg, P. Pettersson Löfquist, & M. Strzelecka (2023)
Post-Pandemic Tourism Development. Kalmar: Linnaeus University. Available via https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-123948. 29 pp.
Sonne, L., Hansen, A., Banik, V.K., Wollentz, G., Djupdræt, M.B. (2023). Development, Test, and Evaluation of New Continuing Education for Museum Staff in Scandinavia. In: Johan Lövgren; Lasse Sonne; Michael Noah Weiss (ed.), New Challenges – New Learning – New Possibilities: Proceedings from the 9th Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning (pp. 139-161). Wien: LIT Verlag
Wollentz, G. (2023). Digital Pedagogy at Museums for Increased Participation and Co-creation: A Handbook for Museum Professionals. Jamtli förlag.
Wollentz, G., Heritage, A., Morel, H., Forgesson, S., Iwasaki, A., et al. (2023). Future Trends on Cultural Heritage Research & Innovation. Report. ARCHE Consortium.
Wollentz, G., Kuhlefelt, H., Eriksson-Bergström, S., Lundström, C., Tegnhed, E., et al. (2024). Volunteering at Archives - a mapping of volunteer management at archives in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Report. Östersund, Nordiskt centrum för kulturarvspedagogik.
Wollentz, G. (2024). Coping with the Gazimestan Monument in Kosovo: Unraveling the Temporalities of Difficult Heritage. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, edited by I. Saloul & B. Baillie. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
A groundbreaking study and the first of its kind available online.
Anticipating Futures for Heritage: ICCROM Foresight Initiative Horizon Scan Study 2021. International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM). https://www.iccrom.org/publication/anticipating-futures-heritage
Conference Presentations/Lectures
» Emily Hanscam presented “Rivers and Walls: Encounters & materiality on Roman frontier waterscapes in northern Britain & the Lower Danube” with Brian Buchanan at European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Belfast (EAA) (30 August–2 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf co-organized (with J. Schönicke and B. Butler) and chaired a session on “The Mushroom Speaks: An Archaeology of Fungi Entanglements” and presented on “Excavating the Future? Towards a (Field) Archaeology of Growth and Regeneration” at the 29th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists held at Belfast, UK (1 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf organized and chaired a Roundtable Dialogue at the ICOMOS Scientific Symposium “Heritage Changes” attended by 150+ participants in the ICOMOS General Assembly 2023 held in Sydney, Australia, addressing the question “What does it mean to manage heritage for the future? How will heritage (have to) change”? (4-8 September 2023).
» Emily Hanscam was invited speaker for “Social Archaeology, Orthodoxy & Roman Frontiers: Excavations at Halmyris, Romania” at Materiality and the Future of Inter-Religious Encounters, University of Cambridge (7–8 September 2023).
» Anders Högberg presented a paper on “Participatory futures making and heritage processes” (co-authored with Gustav Wollentz) for colleagues at Malmö University (17 October 2023).
» Emily Hanscam was invited speaker, “Archaeology and Nationalism: The Politics of the Past” at College Year in Athens (DIKEMES) (1 November 2023).
» Anders Högberg gave a keynote presentation at Museenes forskerkonferanse 2073, arranged by Norske Museumsforbundet and Oslo Museums in Oslo, Norway: “Futures Literacy, Why it is important for museums and museum practices” (8-9 November 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf presented a talk entitled “Varför hantering av kärnavfall behöver kunskap om kultur” for almost 30 attendants of the Culture Breakfast organised by the Municipality of Kalmar (14 November 2023).
» Gustav Wollentz participated as an invited speaker providing perspectives to the conference “Uppslukande bibblan”, focusing on how to creatively use immersive media, such as VR, in libraries (16-17 November 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf was invited to attend and speak at the Dubai Future Forum min Dubai, UAE. A total of 150 invited speakers presented in some 70 sessions, with ca 800 participants from close to 100 countries. The conference ended only two days before the start of COP28 and some participants stayed on (27-28 November 2023).
» Emily Hanscam presented “Consuming the Past/ Drinking history: Modern Vines & Ancient Wines” with Vladmir Stissi at Wine & Institutions in the Ancient World, Ghent (7–8 December 2023).
» Anders Högberg was invited by University of Ferrara, Italy, to give a keynote lecture on the topic “Heritage Futures and Futures Literacy. New roles for heritage in managing the relations between present and future societies” (13 December 2023).
» Emily Hanscam presented “A Growing Centre for Digital Humanities at Linnaeus University” at Huminfra Conference, University of Gothenburg (HiC) (10– 11 January 2024).
» Leila Papoli-Yazdi presented with Omran Garazhian a talk on Navigera i avfallsströmmen: Utforska garbologi och masskonsumtion. Faculty Day. Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Sweden (8 February 2024).
» Wednesday Pizza Talk on “Archaeology, Heritage, and the Future” by Cornelius Holtorf at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA in Los Angeles, USA, attracted an audience of cirka 40 undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and Faculty (21 February 2024).
» Leila Papoli-Yazdi gave a talk on Whispers to Wildfire: Analyzing the Spread of Rumors Linking the State’s Militaristic Activities to Natural Disasters in Iran. The University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, UK (22 February 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf was invited to give a Cotsen Public Lecture and presented for an audience of more than 30 a lecture on “Excavating the Future: From Recovery to Regeneration” at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA (29 February 2024). He presented the lecture again for the Archaeological Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA (15 March 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf presented for ca 60 physical and digital participants at the Getty Centre, Los Angeles,
Anders Högberg presented a paper on “Participatory futures making and heritage processes” (co-authored with Gustav Wollentz) for colleagues at Malmö University in October 2023. Photo Helena Rydén.
USA, an invited Conservation Scholar Lecture entitled “The Book of Change” (19 March 2024).
» Anders Högberg presented a talk at a seminar in public humanities at Malmö University, invited by the Department of Society, Culture and Identity at Malmö University (26 March 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf presented a brief talk entitled “Outlook: Heritage Futures” for 60 senior Getty staff participating in the first Getty Sustainability Convening dedicated specifically to collection environments research and practice (28 March 2024).
» Leila Papoli-Yazdi and Omran Garazhian gave a talk on Marhults uppgång och fall: Att utforska sveriges industrilandskap. Växjö Kulturparken, Sweden (10 April 2024).
» Anders Högberg was invited by Trelleborg Museums to talk about heritage and futures making processes. He met the entire staff and the new head of Trelleborg’s leisure and cultural administration (11 April).
» Emily Hanscam presented “The Walls Come Tumbling Down: Frontier Mythology from Rome to North America” at Roman Archaeology Conference, University College London (RAC) (11– 14 April 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf presented a keynote lecture entitled “Embracing Change: Cultural Heritage and Regeneration” for the 2024 International Forum on Cultural Heritage: Sustainability and Resilience hosted by the Asian Network of Industrial Heritage in Taiwan. The audience comprised 55 participants on site and additional 70 participating online via Facebook on Youtube (18 April 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf presented a lecture on “Excavating the Future: From Recovery to Regeneration” for cirka 20 students and researchers at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (10 May 2024).
» Gustav Wollentz presented as invited speaker on Swedish ICOM’s General Assembly, focusing on future awareness in the museum sector and Strategic Foresight. “Framtidsmedvetande på museer - Behov, metoder och vägar framåt“ (15 May 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf presented an invited keynote lecture on “why culture and cultural heritage must serve peace instead of war, especially in times of crisis” for more than 50 participants at the Kalmar County Regional Conference on Cultural Policy held in Gamleby, Sweden (23 May 2024).
» Gustav Wollentz presented as invited speaker for a research seminar at the Swedish National Maritime and Transport Museums in Karlskrona, focusing on future awareness and learning at museums. “Framtidsmedvetande och lärande på museer” (23 May 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf presented a talk entitled “The Climate Heritage Paradox — considering regeneration” for ca. 30 international heritage experts at the conference Venice Charter [Re-] framed 1964-2024: New Heritage Challenges held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, in co-operation with ICOMOS Portugal, in Lisbon, Portugal (28 May 2024).
» Gustav Wollentz presented as invited speaker on a seminar organized by the Swedish Archives Association, focusing on professionalizing volunteer management at archives. “Utbildningsmaterial för att arbeta med volontärer på arkiv” (28 May 2024).
» Gustav Wollentz presented as invited speaker at Kulturparken Småland, focused on a project investigating future perspectives as heritage-making, among youth in a stigmatized neighborhood called Araby in Växjö. “Framtidstankar i miljonprogrammet– en utforskning av ungdomars kulturarvsskapande i Araby” (29 May 2024).
» Anders Högberg, Cornelius Holtorf, and Gustav Wollentz contributed to a panel discussion co-organized by Cornelius Holtorf and Alison Heritage (ICCROM) on “Addressing the Future in the Social and Human Sciences” at the conference The Discovery of the Future in the Social and Human Sciences held at the University of Trento, Italy (6 June 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf held an invited keynote lecture entitled “Towards an Archaeology of the Future—can futures and foresight be central to archaeology?” in front of 60+ participants in the conference The Discovery of the Future in the Social and Human Sciences held at the University of Trento, Italy. The conference was organised by Roberto Poli, UNESCO Chair on Anticipatory Systems and attended by at least six additional UNESCO Chairs from Cyprus, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, UK, and South Africa (7 June 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf presented the work of the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures for the Board of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden (11 June 2024).
From left: Cornelius Holtorf, Gustav Wollentz and Anders Högberg at the 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Rome, Italy 26-31 August 2024. Photo: Cornelius Holtorf.
» Leila Papoli-Yazdi gave a talk on Archaeology of Resilience: Bam’s Post-Disaster Struggle. At The WasteLands Workshop, Department of History and Cultures (DISCI) located in via San Giovanni del Monte 2, Bologna, Italy (25-26 June 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf presented an invited World Archaeology Seminar on “Future Archaeology” for more than 30 participants at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna, Austria (26 June 2024).
» Gustav Wollentz co-organized two sessions at EAA in Rome. “Teaching and Learning Archaeology with Digital Tools" and "Perceiving and Shaping Landscapes" (29 August 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf presented a talk on “Is Archaeology Ready to Address the Climate Heritage Paradox?” for an audience of 25+ attending the session on “Archaeologies of Climate Change? Current Issues and Future Directions” held at the 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Rome, Italy (31 August 2024).
» Sarah My presented at the EAA in Rome, Italy, in a session on “Heritage doing good” with the title If Archaeology is Good for Wellbeing, why are professionals so miserable? (31 August 2024).
» Emily Hanscam presented “Build the Wall: Roman Frontiers as Ideological Narratives in the Contemporary US” at European Association of Archaeologists Conference (EAA), Rome (26–31 August 2024).
Leila Papoli-Yazdi and Omran Garazhian gave a talk in April 2024 Växjö Kulturparken, Sweden on the rise and fall of Marhult, about the abundance of historical industrial areas in Sweden: Marhults uppgång och fall: Att utforska Sveriges industrilandskap.
Close to 100 people attended our session on 28 November 2023 at the Dubai Future Forum, which was entitled Heritage Futures: How Does Culture Shape Tomorrow? In the session we wanted to introduce the concept of heritage futures to the global futurists.
Media and Popular Science
Cornelius Holtorf was interviewed about Heritage Futures for TV station Dubai One in Dubai, UAE (27 November 2023).
Radio Sweden published a pod (Dystopia) where Anders Högberg is interviewed (in Swedish). The content is partly based on the research carried out by members of the Chair, Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg (29 December 2023).
Cornelius Holtorf and Helena Rydén joined the global conversation on futures and foresight by contributing to UNESCO World Futures Day celebrated on 4 December 2023 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The theme of the Day was Building Inclusive Societies through Futures Literacy & Fore-
Cornelius Holtorf was interviewed by Martina Lindh-Lidberg for Linnaeus University’s magazine Change (12 June 2024). https://lnu.se/change/
Cornelius Holtorf was interviewed by Martin Scheufens for the German magazine GEO (12 June 2024), publication forthcoming.
sight. We ran a session on Shifting Futures Perspectives: Experiencing Diverse Futures Approaches in Practice, featuring even Laura Watts and Pedro De Senna. The event was well attended, both in Paris and online.
The World Futures Day on 4 December 2023 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris ended with experimental future-oriented engagement of the audience. From left: Pedro De Senna, Cornelius Holtorf and Laura Watts. You can see the recording here https://webcast.unesco.org/events/2023-12-WFD/ (starts at ca 3:23:00).
Linnaeus University made an impact on World Futures Day 4 December 2023, held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
Global Engagements
» Sarah May worked with the Environment Agency (UK) to create a Heritage Trail and an animation for children in a place where there were major repairs on their river wall, encouraging them to think about change as a normal part of the town, and something they can think about for the future. https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/eastmidlands/matlock/ (September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf met up in Sydney, Australia, with Helen McCracken, Principal Adviser (Delivery) at the Manatu Taonga Ministry for Culture & Heritage, Government of New Zealand, to discuss her recent work leading to the first Long-Term Insights Briefing in which the Ministry fulfilled its statutory duty to enhance public debate on long-term issues and usefully contribute to future decision making, according to the New Zealand Public Service Act 2020 (4 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf met up in Sydney, Australia, with Riin Alatalu, UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage Studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Estonia, to discuss mutual collaboration in the context of our respective UNESCO Chairs and related to the ICOMOS University Forum initiative (4 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg participated in several preparatory meetings ahead of the Joint UNESCO/ Futures Literacy-OECD/NEA/IDKM Capacity Building on Futures Literacy Training Workshop in Stockholm on 25 September (16 August, 17 August, 6 September, 19 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf took part in a Roundtable at the ICOMOS GA2023 in Sydney, Australia, addressing “Aerospace Heritage and Sustainability” (7 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf participated and intervened digitally in the first UNESCO Chairs Forum on Heritage, held as a side event of the Extended 45th Session of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the Director of the World Heritage Centre, Lazare Eloundou Assomo, 30 people in the room, and 27 UNESCO Chairs from around the world attending, either physically or digitally (18 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf participated in the international symposium “Multidisciplinary Overview of the Situation in Fukushima“, held at l’Humathèque Condorcet, Paris, France (21 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf met to discuss Culture in the Post2030 Agenda with Paola Leoncini Bartoli, Director of the Cultural Policies and Development Unit, UNESCO, Paris, France (22 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf participated in the first day of the Meeting on “The Medium and the Message: Challenges and Solutions in Selecting and Preserving Records of Radioactive Waste” by the Expert Group on Archiving for Radioactive Waste Management Activities (EGAR) of the Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD) held at the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) in Stockholm (26 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf offered comments on a draft concept note on “Climate Actions for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage” (26 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf attended an online “Future Wednesday” session, organised by VINNOVA (27 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf contributed to revising the draft of the “Venice Call to Put Culture at the Heart of Climate Action” ahead of COP28 (27 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf attended the European Heritage Hub Community of Practice Forum “Reimagining the Anthropocene: Putting Culture and Heritage at the Heart of Climate Action” held as part of the European Cultural Heritage Summit 2023, broadcast from Venice, Italy (28 September 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf attended a zoom seminar on Hur kan vi framtidssäkra vår verksamhet? organised by the Museum of Västernorrland in Härnosand (3 October 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf took part in a lunch sponsored by the Friends of Sandbyborg at Linnaeus University’s training excavation site of Gamla Skogsby, followed by participating in a discussion panel to discuss ‘future archaeology’ in relation to the ongoing excavations (4 October 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf took part in the annual meeting of the Academic Advisory Board of the Leibniz Centre for Archaeology (LEIZA) in Mainz, Germany. He also contributed to the Board’s retreat held one day later near Mainz (14-15 October 2023).
» UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University and UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Leadership and Futures Capabilities at Aarhus University met in Copenhagen for discussions on a future collaborative project. (16 October 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf, Anders Högberg, Sarah May, Emily Hanscam, and Helena Rydén discussed their present priorities with colleagues at Malmö University interested in learning more about the work of the Chair with a view towards future collaboration (17 October 2023).
» Emily Hanscam organised an international workshop funded by the Wenner-Gren foundation on developing critical approaches to understanding the consumption of wine in antiquity and the marketing of ‘ancient’ wines today at Consuming the Past, Athens (2-5 November 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf signed the “Global Call to Put Cultural Heritage, Arts and Creative Sectors at the Heart of Climate Action.” This is a global call to the UNFCCC to include cultural heritage, the arts and creative sectors in climate policy, at the time of COP28 (December 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf attended of the Resilience Hub programme at COP 28, held in Dubai, the following sessions: Preserving Our Legacy: Climate resilience for culture and heritage, hosted by the Climate Heritage Network (CHN) and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) (3 December 2023) How Creativity Can Build Resilient Communities (9 December 2023)
» Cornelius Holtorf and Helena Rydén celebrated UNESCO World Futures Day 2023 #FuturesDay at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, by joining the global conversation on futures and foresight: Building Inclusive Societies through Futures Literacy & Foresight. The event was well attended, both in Paris and online (4 December 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf, Anders Högberg, and Ulrika Söderström attended a lecture by Marcy Rockman on “The Radical Importance of Now in Linking Archaeology and Climate Change” organised by the Swedigarch project (6 December 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf, Anders Högberg, and Gustav Wollentz contributed to an informal meeting of a small group of international specialists in heritage and foresight convened by Alison Heritage of ICCROM (8 December 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf participated in a meeting of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Interpretation and Presentation (ICIP) to discuss future strategy addressing contemporary conflicts (13 December 2023).
» Cornelius Holtorf took part in the virtual informal consultations on the UN Summit of the Future arranged by the Co-facilitators of the preparatory process, the Permanent Representatives to the United Nations of Germany and Namibia (13 December 2023).
» The UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures made a written submission for the UN Pact for the Future, to be drafted this spring and due to be accepted September 2024 at the UN Summit of the Future. The full submission is available online https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/ sof-unesco-chair-heritage-futures-input-zero-draft-pactfor-future.pdf ) (16 December 2023).
» Emily Hanscam was named Editor of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (January 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf held a meeting with Matthias Ripp and Monika Göttler representing the Organisation of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) to prepare a Futures Literacy Workshop during the OWHC’s Global Conference later this year in Cordoba, Spain (17 January 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf held meetings with Sanna Sjöo (Culture and Leisure Dept., Kalmar municipality) and the artists Ruben Wätte and Robin Tidblom about an initiative entitled Expedition Future with several events scheduled during 2024 in Kalmar County, inspired by our work on Heritage Futures (29 January and 7 March 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf discussed in conversation with Karin Stenson, Deputy Secretary-General for the Swedish National Commission for UNESCO at the Ministry of Education and Research, some concrete suggestions for the Zero Draft for the Declaration on Future Generations to be passed by the UN Summit of the Future in September 2024 (21 February 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf held a meeting with representatives of Alcove Advisors and NEOM, a large-scale urban area planned by Saudi Arabia, regarding heritage futures and the preparation of guidelines for documenting future legacies of NEOM (4 March 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf was among the 300+ participants in the first UNESCO Chair Seminar on the planned UN Pact for the Future. With about 150 participants representing UNESCO Chairs around the world, speakers from the Bureau of Strategic Planning at UNESCO and several UNESCO Chairs emphasized the need to give more weight to education (including higher education) and culture in the Pact of the Future currently drafted for the UN Summit of the Future to be held in September 2024 and by implication for the post-2030 agenda (5 March 2024).
» Gustav Wollentz participated in a seminar series organized by the Swedish National Heritage Board, “Kulturarv i skolan” (Heritage in school), in which he discussed a book entitled “Digital pedagogy at museums for increased participation and co-creation – a handbook for museum professionals”, together with the heritage pedagogues Ellen Hallgren and Josefine Wellbring (11 March 2024).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOj3LS-FcoM
» Cornelius Holtorf took part in the Global Stakeholder Consultation on Strategic Planning 2026-2031 for The international Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, ICCROM (17 March 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf had meetings discussing areas of mutual interest and future initiatives with Tim Whalen, Director of the Getty Conservation Institute, Joan Weinstein, Director of the Getty Foundation, and (repeatedly) Camille Kirk, Director of Sustainability at Getty (8, 20, 22, and 27 March 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf co-introduced with Giorgio Buccellati, UCLA and fellow Getty Scholar, a discussion seminar for Getty interns and Getty Guest Scholars on “Urkesh and The Book of Change” (27 March 2024).
» Anders Högberg participated in the fourth plenary meeting of the Expert Group on Awareness Preservation after Repository Closure (EGAP) organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Radioactive Waste Management Committee. At the meeting, he presented on Futures Literacy and Heritage Processes. The meeting was held at the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) in Berlin (17-19 April 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf attended a lecture by Ele Carpenter (Umeå University, Sweden) entitled “Curating Nuclear Futures: Decolonising the Nuclear Anthropocene”, broadcast from the EU Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy (29 April 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf attended a lecture by Jun Mizukawa (Lake Forest College, USA) entitled “Upending 3.11 memorialization and monumentalization” discussing memorialization strategies of the 2011 East Japan disaster, arranged by Kathryn E. Goldfarb at the University of Colorado at Boulder (29 April 2024).
» The UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures has been co-hosting Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay of the Co-Futures project at the University of Oslo. They are the hub of several interrelated and well-funded projects (3-4 May 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf had an informal meeting with Benjamin Schraven, author of “Klimamigration” (2023), on the topic of culture and heritage in relation to “non-economic loss and damage”, “place attachment”, “immobility”, and “relocation/displacement” (7 May 2024).
» Anders Högberg and Ulrika Söderström organized the session “Heritage processes, urban transformation and sustainable futures making” at the conference Urban Transformations and Urban Histories at Malmö University, Sweden (16 May 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf attended a global UNESCO Chair Seminar on the planned UN Pact for the Future dedicated to the theme “Towards a Pact for the Future”. Among others, various initiatives of UNESCO for building a culture of peace were emphasized (16 May 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf participated in the first Heritage Dialogues’ Webinar organised by the European Heritage Hub, themed ‘Cultural Heritage for an Inclusive and Democratic Europe’ and featuring among others Normunds Popens, Deputy Director-General, DG EAC, European Commission, Irina Bokova, Chair of the Democracy and Culture Foundation, and former DirectorGeneral of UNESCO, and Carlos Moedas, Mayor of Lisbon, who said that “the cultural heritage of the past has to be about the future” (11 June 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf contributed to the UN Stakeholder Briefing on the Intergovernmental Process for the Declaration on Future Generations, facilitated by the Ambassadors to the UN of Jamaica and the Netherlands. He agreed with the need to make the Commitments more future-oriented and therefore suggested to start §21 with the phrase: “acknowledging the significance of cultural heritage for meeting the needs of future generations, e.g. by preserving cultural diversity, promoting global heritage, and fostering intercultural dialogue to ensure mutual understanding, trust and solidarity” (12 June 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf took part in meetings of the Pledge Network, some of which chaired by Sophie Howe, former Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, 2016-2023, promoting strong references to future generations and their interests in the UN Summit of the Futures this September in New York (16 May 2024, 13 June 2024, 11 July 2024, 15 August 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf submitted feedback on the drafted Pact for the Future and Declaration on Future Generations to the Swedish Department of Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the UN (14 June 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf was invited to Paris by UNESCO to contribute to a meeting of nearly 40 international experts and UNESCO staff on Safeguarding intangible cultural and climate change (19-20 June 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf had a meeting with Emmanuelle Robert, Unit for Cultural Policy and Intercultural Dialogue, UNESCO, on current issues concerning the role of culture in the Pact of the Future to be finalised at the UN Summit of the Future in New York in September 2024 (21 June 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf met informally with Marie-Laure Lavenir, Director General of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and Toshi Kono, former President of ICOMOS, in Paris (21 June 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf visited the activities with young people during Kalmar Town Festival, organized by Kalmar municipality's cultural section under the label "Expedition Future" and inspired by our work in the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures (10 August 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf sent comments and suggestions to the revised draft guidance note on ‘Climate action for living heritage’ to the UNESCO Living Heritage entitity (20 August 2024).
» Cornelius Holtorf, Anders Högberg and Gustav Wollentz met with Alison Heritage and José Luiz Pedersoli at The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome to discuss mutual interests and future collaboration in the area of promoting futures-thinking and futures literacy in the global heritage sector (30 August 2024).
Cornelius Holtorf was invited by UNESCO to contribute to a meeting of international experts and UNESCO staff on Safeguarding intangible cultural and climate change, held in June 2024 at UNESCO in Paris. Among the attendents he was presenting for were Fumiko Ohinata, Secretary of the UNESCO 2003 Convention, Susanne Schnüttgen, Chief of Unit for Capacity Building and Heritage Policy, Culture Sector, UNESCO, and two more UNESCO Chairs: Heba Aziz, UNESCO Chairholder for World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Management in the Arab region at the German University of Technology in Oman—GUtech, and Susan Keitumetse, UNESCO Chairholder for African Heritage Studies and Sustainable Development, University of Botswana.
UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures and UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Leadership and Futures Capabilities at Aarhus University met in October 2023 in Copenhagen for discussions on a future collaborative project From left Nick Larsen (Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies), Sarah May, Cornelius Holtorf (holder of the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures), Emily Hanscam, Helena Rydén, Anders Högberg, Adam Gordon, holder of the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Leadership and Futures Capabilities.
"Värk" by artist Björn Friborg
Globally
Friborg's free-blown sculptures visualize our global pain and agony, opening up to everyone, much like a painful wound. The work refers to our contemporary world, our fragile globe that is so much smaller than we think; a globe that is bleeding, hurting and severely wounded every day. Climate change, war, human rights abuses leave deep scars and the clock keeps ticking faster and faster.
Friborg invites the viewer to share one single moment, the very moment of complete vulnerability, the second when the pain is most extensive and tangible. Sometimes the cavities of the glass are as small and delicate as a beautiful poem, sometimes they are an unbearable hole, endless, roaring and unmendable, a gaping infinite wound in our globe, which never seems to heal. It is almost impossible to resist gently touching the edge of the work's hollow cracks and lesions, if only to spend some soft and healing comfort.
Changeable
Friborg's two-part organic sculpture also refers to our continously and everchanging world. Everything is fluid, there are no boundaries, the upper form flows
In his work “Värk”, Danish-born artist Björn Friborg focuses on the intimate process of exposing and revealing the vulnerability of man and our earth. We live in a global, ever changing world where the wounds and pain we inflict on each other and our surroundings sometimes feel insurmountable. But just like with Pandora's box, there is hope and opportunity to heal the wounds, to understand each other and create a better, more sustainable future for all of us.
”Värk” was commissioned from Björn Friborg in connection with the Post-Pandemic Tourism Development project funded by the Kamprad Family Foundation (see Reinhold and Holtorf 2023 https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:di va-123948.)
Photo: Björn Olsson
into the lower form and changes it and vice versa. Our globe and the present are constantly transforming. What may be a 'truth' today may have a completely different meaning tomorrow. New conditions put things in different perspectives and change our understanding. Every day is a new day where everything is born again, everything can happen, nothing is static. Everything is possible.
Sustainable
The work is also about sustainability, creating a sustainable future together. To "pain forward" our tomorrow on our globe out of all the wounds and cracks. Friborg's work reminds us to be honest and show the wounds, to account for the pain and reveal our personal motives, deepest feelings, thoughts and experiences to each other. It will hurt but only together can we heal. And this is also exactly how the glass sculpture "Värk" was produced: With the united forces of a team in the hot shop, where everyone together has focused on capturing a single intimate moment, a second, when the warm glass opens up and shows all its vulnerability .
Maja Heuer
List of abbreviations
ARCHE - EU Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe
COP28 - UN Climate Conference in Dubai 2024
EGAP - Expert Group on Awareness Preservation within the project on Information, Data and Knowledge Management (IDKM) at the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
ICCROM - International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
ICOMOS - International Council on Monuments and Sites
NEA - Nuclear Energy Agency
OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
UNESCO - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNITWIN - University Twinning and Networking Programme, networks for UNESCO Chairs
