Mapping Future Heritage

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In the framework of the Tandem project of MitOst, Berlin, Castrum Peregrini – Intellectual Playground  and the Centre for Humanities, University of Lviv, Ukraine have been awarded a small grant to realise a collaboration project that will examine ‘dynamic’ cultural heritage as an everyday experience. Main outcomes will be:

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Online exhibition
An interactive map of the no-more or not-yet heritage places, hidden, undesired or closed places in Amsterdam and Lviv. In both cities a project group will be established to work on recognized heritage sites that are are scrutinized in terms of their potential for ‘change of focus’ and those sites that are still  to be discovered as public places of memory. Both sets are documented visually, in terms of facts, and in terms of narratives, spoken or written.
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Travelling exhibition
The Mapping Hidden Heritage project will launch the web application in a travelling exhibition that will display artists work on, in and with heritage sites. The exhibition will be on display in Ukraine in May 2012 and in Amsterdam in autumn 2012.
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First step
The director of the Centre for Humanities, Yevhen Hulevych, will stay  in Amsterdam for a placement at Castrum Peregrini in September 2012 to further develop and implement the plans. The project will then be launched during a Between Breakfast and Lunch Symposium, 25 September 2011.

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AMSTERDAM and LVIV are both listed as UNESCO world heritage sites sharing many controversial consequences of this status. The convention on the world cultural and natural heritage has been adopted 1972 and its framework was more about safeguarding the unique and irreplaceable property than that of its meaningful transfer from the past into the future. Its initial gesture was more globalizing than localizing, it was about preserving the place, once depicted as the heritage site rather than to contextualize the habitat: the living space, which is undergoing constant transformation. The notion of heritage has been developing ever since and in the struggle for open discourse it is gradually shifting from promotion & consumption strategies to the dimension of symbolic inheritance involving patterns of transmission, reconciliation and reconfiguration.