: Opinion: The future of heritage #IndiaNEWS #News By Cornelius Holtorf Wars, pandemics, artificial intelligence, galloping climate crisis… The world is changing rapidly and human communities must

Opinion: The future of heritage #IndiaNEWS #News
By Cornelius Holtorf
Wars, pandemics, artificial intelligence, galloping climate crisis… The world is changing rapidly and human communities must adapt to many challenges. In this context, World Heritage presents a kind of double paradox: while the world needs solidarity and collaboration on a global scale, World Heritage sites serve as cultural totems for the different nation-states, which can themselves even be in conflict. As we anticipate and adapt to change, World Heritage is looking back. Fifty years after the creation of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention , it is time to look to the future.
To this end, over the past decade, our team has contributed to an ambitious research programme on the future of heritage�?, which aims to study the role of heritage in managing the relationships between current and future societies, and created a Unesco Chair .
World Heritage has a long future ahead of it. But can its management and messages remain unchanged, as people are forced from their homelands, as the machines we create increasingly control our lives, and as greater human trust in (and among) companies is necessary? In the next half-century, Unesco would benefit from imagining and implementing promising strategies that meet the needs of future generations. Here’s how.
Dangers of ‘Presentism’
When my colleague Anders Högberg and I started working on the future of heritage, we interviewed more than 60 experienced managers of cultural heritage in several countries. We were surprised to find that no one had ever systematically asked themselves for which future(s) they were managing the heritage and what role this heritage could play in these futures.
They simply assumed that the current uses and benefits of the heritage would somehow continue into the future, or that future generations would fend for themselves. Indeed, much of todays World Heritage policy is based on the assumption that the future will be like the present – even though we know it will be different.
For example, the World Heritage Convention requires that properties inscribed on the List meet the condition of “authenticity�? . While the importance of taking into account cultural diversity “in time and space�? was recognised in the 1994 Nara Document on Authenticity , applications of the term authenticity remain firmly rooted in conceptions of here. This raises the question of to what extent the underlying concept of the Outstanding Universal Value convention will still be “universal�? in the future.
Imagine Alternative Futures

Foresight allows us to think about the future in different terms than our present, and also allows us to imagine different futures.

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