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.