In2Future Boot Camp: Towards an Ecology of Heritage Practices

 

Experimentation, immersion, collaboration, sharing, reflection… The In2Future Boot Camp has arrived, a whole week in Évora, with travel and accommodation in charge of the IN2PAST, to think about heritage in terms of the future. It takes place from 18 to 24 May 2024, in association with the Imaterial Festival (17 to 25 May) and Évora 27 – European Capital of Culture, with the support of the doctoral programme HERITAS – Heritage Studies, and the University of Évora.

 

 

PhD students from the seven research and development units that make up the IN2PAST are challenged to immerse themselves for seven days in an interdisciplinary and collaborative laboratory. In the context of this immersive retreat, participants are proposed to develop exercises of experimentation and critical reflection around the historical legacy of the city of Évora, under the prism of a heritage ecology to come.

In the spirit of cross-fertilization, the “In2Future. Towards an Ecology of Heritage Practices” aims to provide a creative hub for students to explore and reflect on heritage approaches and methodological skills. Heritage practices can include documenting oral testimonies, endangered languages or soundscapes, and applying science to study, preserve and enhance heritage.

Doctoral students will participate in working groups around lines of research associated with heritage, which combine the exploration or re-evaluation of heritage practices with moments of theoretical reflection and self-criticism. The program will include, among other activities, a guided visit to the HERCULES Laboratory, dedicated to the study and enhancement of cultural heritage through the use of methodologies and tools from the physical and material sciences and, within the scope of the Intangible Festival and the Doctoral Cycle of Conversations of IN2PAST Paulo Ferreira de Castro and a conversation with Paul Dujardin, former artistic director of Bozar (Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels) and António Candeias, president of the board of IN2PAST, about cities, the New European Bauhaus and sustainability. Doctoral students will make individual presentations on the research carried out in their PhD projects and on the research developed in their respective research units, concluding the week of the doctoral school with the sharing of the observations co-created around the ecology of heritage practices and how these can inspire the development of their research projects.

This sharing will be extended to the audience of the Imaterial Festival in Évora through the public session “Heritage Archives in Évora: Towards an ecology of practices” and a round table inspired by the notion of “anarchive” (Sense Lab/Erin Manning) applied to the field of heritage. The aim is to encourage debate with the festival’s audience about processes, techniques and materials for shared heritage activations.

 

 

 

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