HeritageLab – Experimenting with Heritage for a Shared Future

Heritage is like the future—we don’t know it. The HeritageLab enables us to understand the mechanisms behind heritage creation so we understand or at least grapple with the uses and misuse of the past as we move into the future.

Heritage means different things to different people; the HereitageLab provides a platform for communities to curate and present their perspectives.

Robert Parthesius (Founder, HeritageLab)

Welcome to the HeritageLab

Welcome to HeritageLab! We are academics, artists and heritage professionals who seek to give voice to forgotten and neglected narratives, connect heritage landscapes across oceans and seas, and share with marginalized communities the skills that empower them to unlock, document and celebrate their heritage and collective memory. Read more

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The Heritage Universe

Heritage is not a hard science that can be completely defined by a singular authorized interpretation around a practice or object. It exists within and among communities, shaped by memory, values, present realities, and future aspirations. Encompassing our various projects, Heritage Universe explores how heritage and memory overlap and differ between communities and spaces.

HeritageLab’s Story of the Week

The Birdwalkers

Meet the bird walkers, the men who to take their caged birds out for playtime everymorning.

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HeritageLab’s Story of the Week

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