Heritage Futures - Time Capsule
What ideas, practices, objects or structures from our pasts and present will we need in the future? What skills can we use to preserve, protect or transform our heritage? And what happens with the things we do not need or want anymore? In this module, we will examine the role heritage plays in our futures by envisioning things we would like to preserve or discard by designing a time capsule in which to “salvage” selected fragments of our era in light of changing societal, cultural, environmental conditions. By transcending time, our time capsule will aim at liberating the (un)built legacy from backwards biases and at raising awareness for the need to think and act together. To these ends, we will discuss past and current, canonical and contested figures, discourses, and imaginaries that construct and disrupt the complex and multidirectional state of the heritage realm and its entanglements with futurity. A constellation of interdisciplinary theories and the operative protocols they provide will counter-map the relations between heritage paradigms, dimensions, and praxes across diverse temporal and geographic contexts. Constructing a time capsule for heritage futures, we will reconsider our positions towards tangible and intangible legacies to be kept or let go, salvaged or drowned, forgotten or carried on towards the hereafters.
On Thursday, 28 April, the bauhaus.module "Heritage Futures - Time Capsule" will begin in Marienstraße 9, Room 203, at 2pm with an introduction session and a lecture on how to think about heritage through the lense of time capsules. Students from all faculties are welcome to attend and it is still possible to enroll on the last places. Please email heritage@uni-weimar.de if you would like take part.
Course Schedule
Seminars take place in Marienstraße 9, Room 203, unless specified otherwise
April 2022 Heritage Paradigms
Thursday 28 April
14:00 - 17:00 Introduction, Giorgia Aquilar & Jenny Price
18:00 - 20:00 Heritage Futures Lecture I: »Past Forward: Heritage, Futures, Time Capsule«, Giorgia Aquilar
Friday 29 April
10:00 - 17:00 Historical Time Capsules, Michael Karpf & Jenny Price
May 2022 Heritage Dimensions
Thursday 12 May
14:00 - 17:00 Forgotten Heritage, Oliver Trepte
18:00 - 20:00 Heritage Futures Lecture II: »Unser Boden, unser Erbe« Wie wollen wir in Zukunft leben? (»Our Soil, Our Heritage« How do we want to live in the future?)
Film & Discussion with the director Marc Uhlig
Friday 13 May
10:00 - 17:00 (In)Tangible Heritage, Arijit Bhattacharyya & Nawar Alhusari
June 2022 Heritage Praxes
Thursday 9 June
14:00 - 17:00, Photogrammetry for Digital Heritage, Jesús Velázquez Rodríguez
Thursday 16 June
14:00 - 17:00, Sustainable Heritage, Florian Dossin
18:00 - 20:00, Heritage Futures Lecture III: Sharing Heritage, Mirhan Damir
Friday 17 June
10:00 - 17:00 Bauhaus Time Capsule I, Giorgia Aquilar & Jenny Price
Thursday 23 June
14:00 - 17:00 Bauhaus Time Capsule II, Giorgia Aquilar & Jenny Price
Thursday 30 June
14:00 - 17:00 Bauhaus Time Capsule III, Giorgia Aquilar & Jenny Price
July 2022 Heritage Futures – Time Capsule Exhibition
Thursday 7 July
14:00 - 17:00 Seminar / Online Drop-in Session
Thursday 14 - 17 July
Time TBC, Summaery Exhibition