Syllabus/achievement requirements

1. Exploring sustainability: past present, future 

Introduction: Heritace practices and sustainability
Wednesday 26th of February 

• DeSilvey, C. & Harrison, R. (2020) “Anticipating loss: rethinking endangerment in heritage futures”, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26:1, 1-7.
• Lutz, S. & Koch, G. (2017). “Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Culture: Diverging Concepts and Practices in European Heritage Work”. In Albert, M.T., Bandarin, F. & Pereira Roders,  A. (Eds) Going Beyond: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No. 2. (pp. 71-84) Springer Link, Cham.
• Worts, D. (2016). “Museums: Fostering a Culture of ‘Flourishing’. Curator: The Museum Journal, 59:3, 209-218. 

The historical and conceptual development of sustainability
Thursday 27th of February

• Purvis, B., Mao, Y. & Robinson, D. (2019). “Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins”. Sustainability Science, 14:3, 681-695.
• Smythe, K. R. (2014). “An Historian’s Critique of Sustainability”. Culture Unbound, 6, 913-929.
• Frandy, T. & Cederström, B.M. (2017). “Sustainable Power: Decolonising Sustainability Through Anishinaabe Birchbark Canoe Building” In Albert, M.T., Bandarin, F. & Pereira Roders,  A. (Eds) Going Beyond: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No. 2. (pp. 217-230) Springer Link, Cham.

Transforming our world: Future speculations
Wednesday 4th of March
Guest Lecturer: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor in Global Culture Studies.

• United Nations. (2015). Transforming our world: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
• Liu Cixin. (2019) “Moonlight”. In Ken Liu (Ed.) Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (pp 63-80). Tom Doherty Associates: New York.
• Sansour, L. (2015). “In the future they ate from the finest porcelain” (Film  28 min)

2. Exploring the emergence of sustainability: Museums and heritage

Cultural heritage, sustainability and climate action
Wednesday 11th of March 

• ICOMOS. (2019). The Future of our Pasts: Engaging cultural heritage in climate action
• Guzman, P. (2019) Heritage conservation and Climate Change: Introducing the Future of our past in the Norwegian context. The Heritage Blog

Thursday 12th of March

• https://artsandculture.google.com/project/heritage-on-the-edge
• https://www.niku.no/klimaendringer/

Museums for a healthy future
18th of March 

• Sutton, S.W., Wylie, E., Economopoulos, B., O'Brien, C., Shapiro, S. & Xu, S. (2017). “Museums and the Future of a Healthy World: “Just, Verdant and Peaceful””. Curator, 60, 151-174.
• Brown, K. (2019). Museums and Local Development: An Introduction to Museums, Sustainability and Well-being. Museum International, 71:3-4, 1-13.
• McGhie, H. (2019). Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals: a how-to guide for museums, galleries, the cultural sector and their partners. Curating Tomorrow, UK.
• ICOM. (2019). “On sustainability and the implementation of Agenda 2030, Transforming our World” Resolutions Adopted by ICOM’s 34^th General Assembly. Kyoto, Japan

Thursday 19th of March

• https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/tate-directors-declare-climate-emergency

Sustainable community development: Ecomuseums 
Wednesday 25th of March 

• Sutter, G. C. (2019). When Global Changes Hit Home: Museums as Catalysts for Local Development
• Davis, P. (2011). “Museums, community, environment: the emergence of the ecomuseum” Ecomuseums: A sense of place (2nd edition) (pp. 50-77). London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
• Lersch, T. M. (2019) “Community Museums: Telling a Story, Building a Future”. In Brown, K., Davis, P. & Raposo, L. (Eds.) On Community and Sustainable Museums (pp. 38-53). EULAC Museums.

3. Exploring the beyond: Methods of analyses and actions

Beyond Nature and Culture: Assembling heritage
Wednesday 1st of April

• Mathews, A. S. (2017). Ghostly forms and forest histories. In A. L. G. Tsing, Elaine; Swanson, Heather A. (Eds.), Arts of living on a damaged planet: Stories from the Anthropocene (pp. G145-G156). University of Minnesota Press.
• Harrison, R. (2015) Beyond “Natural” and “Cultural” Heritage: Toward an Ontological Politics of Heritage in the Age of Anthropocene. Heritage & Society, 8:1, 24-42.
• Macdonald, S. (2009). Reassembling Nuremberg, Reassembling Heritage. Journal of Cultural Economy, 1-2(2), 117-134.

Time for some action 
Thursday 2nd of April

• Robert Johnston & Kimberley Marwood (2017) Action heritage: research, communities, social justice, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23:9, 816-831, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2017.1339111
• Janes, R. & Sandell, R. (2019) “Posterity has arrived: The necessary emergence of museum activism”. In Janes, R. & Sandell, R. (Eds) Museum Activism (pp. 1-21). Routledge: London.
• Climate Museum UK: http://climatemuseumuk.org
• Worts, D. “Heritage Planning for Sustainable Cultural Impacts”