Heritage in Transformation. An Agenda for New Practices in Heritage Scholarship and Practice

In the first issue of the inherit’s wordbook series, directors Sharon Macdonald and Eva Ehninger share the aims and approach of the Centre for Advanced Study "inherit. heritage in transformation" in contributing to understanding and shaping heritage and Heritage Studies: "Heritage is an expression of responses to some of the world’s most fundamental, enduring, significant and pressing questions. What of the past endures and shapes life today? In what ways are current generations obligated to previous and forthcoming ones? Whose values, identities and very existences have been, and are being, recognized and saved for the future? What should be preserved and how? In some times and places, answers to these questions have been – and still are – taken as more-or-less self-evident. Increasingly, however, they are seen as opening up to different possible responses, sometimes ones that conflict or seem impossible to realize.” “tbc. working through heritage concepts" is a wordbook series published by the Centre of Advanced Study “inherit. heritage in transformation". Every issue works with a key concept of heritage, its history, current state, or future transformations. "inherit" team and fellows contribute to the series, which is updated with every fellow intake. Concept-work in heritage is always in a process of tbc: “to be confirmed” (still under development, evolving) and “to be continued” (an ongoing process, part of a longer historical narrative). This series of short publications captures work-in-progress on concepts, notions, and words that are significant in the research taking place at "inherit". It gives space to experimentation, highlighting the continuous, transforming and transformative nature of heritage research.