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Heritage + UtopiaMain MenuUtopian Currents in HeritageSection 1Community Futures and UtopiaSection 2My Future YorkSection 3Utopia: Crafting the Ideal BookSection 4Author and Contributor BiosBiographiesReferences and Further ReadingBibliographyElizabeth Stainforth3d3e3051d7a13ea6e4f2b27f7bcb160c4bc167b7Helen Grahamf204c9df947a0fb7f84dae27e743c01016c9be7c
Introduction
12017-01-03T06:00:15-08:00Elizabeth Stainforth3d3e3051d7a13ea6e4f2b27f7bcb160c4bc167b71433936Introduction to Heritage + Utopiaplain3698262017-01-06T06:03:44-08:00Elizabeth Stainforth3d3e3051d7a13ea6e4f2b27f7bcb160c4bc167b7Welcome to Heritage + Utopia, a set of resources for thinking the past and the future differently.
Heritage - Heritage is all about the management of our relationship with time. The balance of the past and the present has significant implications for this relationship, which is reflected in definitions of heritage as 'a contemporary product shaped from history' (see Harvey 2001: 327) or 'a creative engagement with the past in the present' (Harrison 2013: 4).
Utopia - Like heritage, utopia is suggestive of a particular experience of time, most often a better or alternative future. As Ruth Levitas writes, utopia is 'society imagined otherwise, rather than merely society imagined' (2013: 84). Utopianism, then, always speaks to the idea of the world figured differently and, in doing so, sheds light on current limitations and opportunities.
The following pages bring heritage and utopia together in order to draw out the multiple temporalities embedded in notions of the past and the future, and their impact on how we live in the present.
12017-01-03T06:16:26-08:00Elizabeth Stainforth3d3e3051d7a13ea6e4f2b27f7bcb160c4bc167b7Utopia: Crafting the Ideal Book20Section 4plain2018-10-24T03:48:45-07:00Elizabeth Stainforth3d3e3051d7a13ea6e4f2b27f7bcb160c4bc167b7
12017-01-03T06:21:03-08:00Elizabeth Stainforth3d3e3051d7a13ea6e4f2b27f7bcb160c4bc167b7Author and Contributor Bios10Biographiesplain2018-10-24T03:55:19-07:00Elizabeth Stainforth3d3e3051d7a13ea6e4f2b27f7bcb160c4bc167b7
12017-01-03T06:21:54-08:00Elizabeth Stainforth3d3e3051d7a13ea6e4f2b27f7bcb160c4bc167b7References and Further Reading14Bibliographyplain2017-01-06T09:36:16-08:00Elizabeth Stainforth3d3e3051d7a13ea6e4f2b27f7bcb160c4bc167b7
