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Heritage Conservation as Historical Method
21 July 2021
Dean Sully has been invited to present a Masterclass Programme at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin.
The masterclass programme,听Heritage Conservation as Historical Method,听presents听a transdisciplinary approach to decolonizing, transcultural, critical heritage, and post-humanist practice as a research lens for writing histories of science and will take place from 7-9 September 2021.听
Dean Sully will give a听public lecture entitled听听(7 September) which will then be followed by two intensive method听workshops.
The public lecture听will provide a practice-based account of heritage conservation as a set of research methods that contribute to broader debates about the past, and concerns about our futures. It will explore the principles of the conservation discipline within a framing of colonialism, and the need for additional methodological tools that go beyond the technical ability of heritage to merely present something of the past to be experienced in the present.
Workshops
- , in association with the University of Auckland's Department of Architecture. In Workshop 1, participants will consider the authorized discourse of heritage conservation and how this is subject to transformation through decolonizing and transcultural practice.
,听 in association with Goldsmith鈥檚 Department of Design. 听In Workshop 2, participants will look beyond human-centered heritage practice and seek to engage with more destabilized ideas of temporality and the more-than-human.
Dean's current research seeks to re-situate heritage practice, from maintaining the metastable authenticity of heritage places and objects towards co-curating ecosociologically-constituted multispecies worlds. This听invitation comes out of Dean鈥檚 long-term collaborative projects to Decolonise Conservation (Sully 2007), and more recent creative heritage projects that respond to the challenges posed by the environmental humanities of the Anthropocene (Sully et al. 2020). Registration is now open for these events (via the links above).
References
Sully, Dean (ed.). 2007. Decolonising Conservation: Caring for M膩ori Meeting Houses Outside New Zealand. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.
Sully, Dean, Cecilie Gravesen, Katherine Beckwith, and Xiaozhou Li. 2020.听Objects of the Misanthropocene A Time-Travelling Exhibition from the Museums of Beyond. .
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