The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice

Nick Cass, Anna Powell, Sarina Wakefield

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040445860
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice explores the role of creativity as a tool for critical engagement with heritage. It provides a comprehensive study of ways in which heritage and creative practice intersect, in research, in practice and in a transnational context.

This book introduces researchers, students, creative and heritage practitioners to contemporary practices from a breadth of perspectives. The transnational nature of its scope is key to the exploration of how 'heritage' and 'creativity' are ever evolving, conceived of differently in different contexts, and intersect in interesting ways through the work of creative practitioners. The volume argues that heritage itself is a creative practice, such that the 'creative' work that occurs in these examples is not singular and distinct; rather the symbiotic reciprocity between heritage and creativity is intersectional and embedded. The international array of authors and differing approaches from around the world, including case studies from Africa, Bahrain, Brazil, Caribbean, Columbia, China, Hong Kong, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Oman, Qatar, United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates provide a global approach to the subject, while the diverse range of topics covered, including urban renewal, the coronavirus pandemic, memorial culture, public art and colonial heritage, allows readers to gain insight into the richness of practices across a diversity of disciplines and contexts.

This volume offers a significant and new contribution to heritage studies that will be of interest to scholars and students in heritage and museum studies, as well those in the fields of art, architecture, anthropology, design, digital and curatorial studies. It also provides a valuable resource for artists, arts professionals, architects and museums and heritage practitioners.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: The creative practices of heritage
• Part I Different possibilities
• 1 Towards a Metamodern Practice of Heritage
• 2 Art, Ethics, and Cultural Resilience: Rethinking Curatorial Practices through Kamëntšá Ontology and Knowledge
• 3 Real fakes: Creating (remote) immersive sensory experiences that unify the material, the virtual and the social
• 4 Heritages remain as theatrical experiments in Mexico: Performing palimpsest bodies
• 5 Creativity at the Core: Creative Practice in Museums, Galleries and Schools
• 6 Creative Contemporary Arts Programming in the Literary Heritage Sector amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic: Before, During …, and After?
• 7 Following the rove: Intangible cultural heritage and creative writing practice1
• Part II Creative heritage
• 8 Recycling Love: Creative Responses to the Mass Removal of Love-Locks
• 9 Rachel Scales Autograph Cloth: An Embroidered Elegy
• 10 ‘Deep Mapping: Intersecting engagements with a creative mentalité’
• 11 Introducing heritage scenography: A creative, place-based research methodology
• 12 Heritage in the round: Roundabout art in the Arab Gulf countries
• 13 Creativity as a Critical Tool for Meaningful Heritage Production and Cultural Engagement in Bahrain
• 14 Artists and heritage-making: Vital ingredients to a cocktail of creativity, performativity and participatory practice
• 15 Enhancing global development through heritage and creative practices: Insights from the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund portfolio
• Part III Thresholds
• 16 Parading Myths and Legends in Community Climate Action
• 17 How have Carnivals affected Black cultural manifestations pOst abolition: Focussing on Brazil and Caribbean Carnivals
• 18 Pokfulam village, the Village Aunties’ studio, and the fire dragon: Community, art, and heritage preservation
• 19 Endurance: Creativity through Crisis
• 20 Heritage ownership: Preservation by affect, form-of-life, and creative practice
• 21 Four Gateways to Bahrain: Bab Al Bahrain and Belgrave’s Modern Monument
• 22 Living in an Age of the Re: Reproducing William Morris and Reassembling Heritage in a Post-Digital Age
• 23 Brass Art’s this voice; this life; this procession: A sojourn through the home and writings of Virginia Woolf with LiDAR and Kinect as extended practices of light
• 24 Doors of perception into borderland worlds: Contemporary audio walking practice as creative public engagement in a Victorian garden cemetery
• Index