نبذة مختصرة : This report covers the seventh year of the UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University. Among the highlights of the year were several global occasions at which our Chair could contribute with perspectives on heritage futures. This included the ICOMOS General Assembly 2023 held in Sydney, Australia, where I was chairing a well-attended panel, the Dubai Future Forum in Dubai, UAE, where I contributed to a dedicated session, and UNESCO World Futures Day 2023 in December at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris where I was running a topical plenary panel.This spring, I spent three months as a Conservation Guest Scholar at the Getty in Los Angeles, USA. My project was entitled “Heritage in Transformation” and explored how, in a world where the future is not what it used to be, we can conceptualize the past and practice cultural heritage in correspondingly new ways. On various occasions throughout the year, we had the chance to meet and connect with UNESCO Chairholders from different corners of the world, working on culture, heritage, the future, and other questions. Such meetings and exchanges of views are always stimulating and important, not the least as it contributes to strengthening global trust and joint multilateral engagements for a better world. This report is published shortly after the 2024 UN Summit of the Future has been held in New York. The Summit agreed on a global Part for the Future and a Declaration on Future Generations, both of which referring to culture and cultural heritage. It will be exciting to follow how this will strengthen the case for heritage futures in Sweden and the other UN member states across the years to come.
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