It is through a challenging conceptual panorama, in the encounter and within the framework of the more-than-human, that we propose to reflect.

The concept of heritage is problematised from other perspectives that not only detach it from exclusively human, social and cultural legacies and appropriations, past and present, but also force us to think about an idea of a shared future made up of multiple biotic and abiotic connections. It is everyone’s common heritage, albeit with administratively and politically managed territorial and cultural inscriptions, that we are aiming for.

The sky, the atmosphere, the sea, the water, the earth, the soil, the wind, the air, the mountains and the rocks, among many other elements on which we all depend and whose appropriation in patrimonial terms (of possession and ownership) can jeopardise human lives and the ecological balances necessary for the planet’s existence, without their care as common heritage (of everyone, including everyone else and everything else besides humans).

 

Lab2PT participates in the scientific committee and in the development of this activity, which arises from the intersection of some of IN2PAST’s lines of research.

 

Coordination: Ana Moya (CHAIA – University of Évora / INPAST); Humberto Martins (CRIA – University of Minho / IN2PAST); Paulo Mendes (CRIA – UMinho / IN2PAST); Paulo Raposo (CRIA – Iscte / IN2PAST); Ruy Llera Blanes (CRIA – Iscte / IN2PAST); Sandra Xavier (CRIA – University of Coimbra / IN2PAST); Sónia Mota Ribeiro (CRIA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST); Rebeca Blanco-Rotea (Lab2PT– UMinho / IN2PAST)

Participants of Lab2PT: Ivo Oliveira, Miguel Duarte, Rebeca Blanco-Rotea

Promoting institutions: Consellería de Cultura, Lingua e Xuventude da Xunta de Galicia

 

Programme: Patrimónios (In)Comuns_Programa_PDF

 

Free admission, subject to prior registration.

Registration: HERE

 

PARTICIPATION OF STREET PROJECT

“From transit to transition: Streets for a common habitat” is the theme of the presentation within the scope of the STREET project (Lab2PT-FCT), which will be presented at the meeting “(In)Common Heritage: Non-Anthropocentric Perspectives and Legacies for More-Than-Human Futures”, on October, 17th, at 11 am.
This work addresses the rebalancing of natural and social values ​​in street design, based on a review of the monofunctional space dedicated to the automobile. Faced with the main challenges to the sustainability of life on Earth, the transformation of streets plays a strategic role in the regeneration of urban ecosystems, the integration of natural and social spaces, and the rebalancing of mobility—ours and that of other life forms. Through an integrated vision of species for a greater balance between the urban condition and the natural environment, this presentation focuses on an expanded interpretation of sustainability indicators for a more resilient and ecological future, which is intended to be more-than-human.

Participants: Ivo Oliveira (UMinho); Daniel Casas-Valle (UPorto); and Marcela Percú (UMinho)
Promoting institutions: In2PAST | Lab2PT | EAAD UMinho | the Future Design of Streets | FCT

 

PARTICIPATION BY RESEARCHER MIGUEL DUARTE

Lab2PT also presents researcher Miguel Duarte’s paper, “Ecologies of Passage” to this Meeting, which will be presented at 5 p.m. on the 16th.
This paper proposes a reflection on the artistic practice of walking as a critical tool for rethinking heritage from ecocentric perspectives. Drawing on the experience of the international meeting The Walking Body and the concept of (in)common heritage, the paper investigates walking as an aesthetic, ecological, and relational gesture that allows for an active listening of territories and their multiplicities—human and more-than-human. Walking is understood here as a sensitive device for reading and co-presence, capable of activating layers of memory, affection, and resistance often invisible in official heritage narratives. Rather than fixating legacies on objects or monuments, we propose a living, situated approach that recognizes the agency of natural elements, atmospheres, landscapes, ruins, animals, and other beings with whom we share the world.

 

Some photographs of our researchers’ participation in the Meeting: