Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mobility and unaccountability of capital, raised by those who were once inside (however tenuously or uncomfortably) and now find themselves marginalized, “left behind.” The desire to catch up again, whether through attracting new investment or transvaluing abandoned sites as tourist attractions, makes this an essentially conservative critique that is reluctant to question the underlying logics of industrial capitalism more directly. But as those logics continue to create conditions now rendering planetary systems themselves inhospitable to human life, the time feels right to ask: what would it take to imagine a heritage practice in solidarity with what is now or has long been structurally outside, one that aligns that implicit critique with projects of economic transformation, not merely revitalization? I propose two lines of possibility, one emerging from a more radically reflexive mode of practice and the other imagined within the conditions of breakdown and crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic has prefigured and illuminated. I root this imagined practice within my own current location in a deindustrialized New England mill town where I am engaged with food systems projects. This work has given me unexpected insight into what it means to be structurally “outside” and pointed the way toward modes of community wealth and investment that can shift the sense of what cultural labor may be working toward.
Who's Attending
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Amy Buchan
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation -
Robyn Clinch
Heritage planner, University of Melbourne -
Patrick Viaene
Lecturer University Antwerp (Heritage Conservation Studies) , TICCIH-Belgium -
Éliane Bélec
C.H.I.C. Espace Craig -
Guillaume Martel
Provencher_Roy Architectes -
Mikaela Gallinger
Parks Canada -
Anne Dalmasso
Professeur d'histoire contemporaine, Université grenoble Alpes LARHRA -
Amy Federman
Six Degree Singers -
Monika Schott
Deakin University Australia -
Kasper Albrektsen
Aarhus School of Archutecture -
Clara Trojahn
IWTG TU Bergakademie Freiberg -
Patrick Dieudonné
Directeur adjoint, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Institut de Géoarchitecture, France -
Elizabeth Carnegie
Northumbria University -
Pasi Saarimäki
Post doctoral fellow, University of Jyväskylä -
Abdoulaye Gaye
http://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?5439, Ministère de la Culture Sénégal / Direction du Patrimoine Culturel -
Elisa Rubalcava
Heritage Conservation Technologist, GoA - Historic Resources Management Branch -
Sung-Yong Kim
Master Student, IWTG TU Bergakademie Freiberg -
Oana Cristina Tiganea
Assistant Professor in Architectural Preservation, Politecnico di Milano -
Alexandra Lemarcis
Hydro-Quebec -
Steven High
Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling -
Boris Cvitanic D.
PhD. Associate Professor Architecture Department, Universidad de Magallanes -
Mengke Zhang
PhD Candidate, EPFL -
Naveed Iqal
Ph.D. Researcher department of architecture & arts UHasselt, Hasselt University Belgium -
Brian Rosa
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in Urban Geography, Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra -
Mathieu Gigot
Maître de conférences en aménagement de l'espace - urbanisme, Université Paris Cité, UMR Géographie-Cités -
Maryam El Moumni
Architect DENA/Cultural Heritage Graduate -
Bode Morin
Director, Anthracite Heritage Museum -
Maria Isabel Alba Dorado
Associate Professor, UNIVERSITY OF MALAGA -
Flore Vigné
Research fellow, PACTE/CERMOSEM (UGA) -
Mirhan Damir
Lecturer, Alexandria University, Egypt -
Ana Bergholz
PhD Student Heritage Studies, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg -
Èlia Casals Alsina
PhD student, Universitat de Lleida [University of Lleida]. Fac.: Geography and Sociology. Research program: Territory, heritage and culture -
Jessica Lafrance-Hwang
Ingenium -
Monika Schott
Deakin University Australia -
Monica Bittencourt
CCNQ -
Stephan Green
Chercheur Indépendant (Royaume Uni), Independent Researcher (UK) -
Hsiao-Wei Lin
associate professor, Chung Yuan Christian University -
Marie-Claude Lemelin
Service de l'urbanisme et de la mobilité -
Ichiro Ohshima
Director, Japan Industrial Archaeology Society -
Takashi Itoh
Japan ICOMOS, Japan Industrial Archaeology Society -
zeineb ayed
Student , Université de Montréal -
Bo Lagerqvist
Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg -
Alain Gelly
Historian, Parks Canada -
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