Call For Pre-Conference Workshop Participants - Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene

Decolonising Heritage Futures is hosted by the Bartlett School of Architecture in collaboration with The Centre for Critical Heritage Studies. The workshop aims to explore how globally different practices by diverse actors, including institutions, researchers, activities, citizens decolonize the understanding, perception, production and consumption of heritage. The workshop will provide an opportunity to have a comparative and shared learning and understanding of examples presented by invited experts, opening up new futures through their engagement with decolonial heritage research and practices in the present.

Roundtable Speakers Include:

Divya Tolia Kelly, Professor of Geography & Heritage Studies , University of Sussex, UK (focus on Syrian heritage)

Annalisa Bolin, Research Associate, UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures, Linnaeus University (Sweden) and Research Associate, Understanding Violent Conflict, Social Science Research Council (New York)

Richard Sandford, Professor [Chair] of Heritage Evidence Foresight and Policy UCL, UK

Jigna Desai, Associate Professor and Program Chair for Masters in Conservation and Regeneration, Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, India

Gehan Selim, Professor of Architecture and Deputy Director at Leeds Social Sciences Institute at the University of Leeds

Facilitator: Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, Lecturer in Environmental and Spatial Equity, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Local travel and accommodation will be funded for Early career researchers and will be considered case by case. To book to attend please contact Lakshmi Rajendran: l.rajendran@ucl.ac.uk 

Archive and/or Memory of Heritage is hosted by the Bartlett School of Architecture in collaboration with The Centre for Critical Heritage Studies. The workshop aims to explore how heritage is archived and/or remembered across varying geographies by divergent actors, including, but not limited to, research institutions and creative enterprise in the Global Majority. The workshop questions how colonialism, patriarchism, and environmental degradation has influenced what is, or has been, preserved, valued, or left out of contemporary urban historiographies. This session offers an opportunity for shared learning and comparative interrogation from the expertise of a select group of speakers.

Roundtable Speakers include:

Ammar Azzouz, British-Syrian Architect and Architectural Critic; Analyst at Arup; and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Oxford, UK

Elena Isayev, Professor of Ancient History and Place, University of Exeter

Iain Jackson, Professor in Architecture, University of Liverpool

Kuukuwa Manful, Doctoral Researcher, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS; President, Docomomo Accra

Neady Atieno Oduor, The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Research Fellow

Shahed Saleem, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster; Founder and Director of Makespace Architects

Facilitator: Maxwell Mutanda, Lecturer in Environmental and Spatial Equity, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Local travel and accommodation will be funded for Early career researchers and will be considered case by case. To book to attend please contact Maxwell Mutanda: maxwell.mutanda@ucl.ac.uk