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Porto | PORTUGAL : July 6-8, 2027

Heritage(s) 2027: UNESCO Perspectives: Cultural Pasts – Urban Futures–

Conference: July 6-8, 2027 | Abstracts: July 20, 2026

Organised by AMPS and the University of Porto, in collaboration with the University of IPCA – Polytechnic Institute of Cávado e Ave, the conference has a number of strands. Broad thematic areas of particular interest to AMPS include Art & Architectural History; Global Histories; Societies & Cultures; Art & Design, and more.

For an overview of each area of interest:

History & Theory | Conservation, Preservation, Museology, Archives, Collections & Research: The Creation & Sharing of Knowledge
Architecture & Urbanism | The Pasts, Presents & Futures of Architecture & Cities: Critiques from Design, Cultural and Social Perspectives
Art & Design | Dissenting Archives: Critical Heritages and Archival Practices of Alternative Cultures
Digital Heritage | AI, Technology & the Body: From Photogrammetry to LiDAR Scanning – New Methods in the Recording & Visualising of the Past
Societies & Cultures |Managing Cultures, Histories: From Contested Readings of History to participatory planning in Heritage Development
Global Histories | Regional Cultural Histories in a Globalized Present: Exploring the Local Traditions, Art, Cultures & Communities

Critical Heritages

Interdisciplinary:

The conference forms part of the AMPS Critical Heritages initiative that straddles two of its research programs: The Mediated City and Critical Futures. Under the remit of the Mediated City, AMPS explores how technologies and medias inform the various sectors including heritage, art and the built environment – as both sites of exploration and documentation. Under the remit of Critical Futures, we critique questions of heritage, cultures, communities and a range of social issues, people and place. Examples include heritage gentrification, social inclusion in sites of heritage and the sustainable development of both heritage and non-heritage sites globally.

In bringing together strands of thinking in these areas under the Critical Heritages Initiative, we seek to function as a site for exploration, knowledge exchange and the generation of new insights into questions of heritage from an interdisciplinary perspective. Examples of disciplines that have participated include:

Publications

Research + Publication Program

The Critical Heritages program draws upon the AMPS publication network based on the journal and book series with several international publishing houses:

In addition, the work of researchers is shared through the AMPS Academic YouTube channel, its series of international conferences and its associated proceedings publications.

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Sample Books

The Space of Image: Architectural Experience through Media. (eds) Gul Kacmaz Erk, Nic Theo, June Jordaan. Intellect Books, 2024
Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Form and Social Life. (ed) Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu. Intellect Books, 2023
Urban Histories in Practice: Morphologies and Memory. (eds) Jeffrey Kruth & Steven Rugare. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022
Participatory Practice in Space, Place, and Service Design: Questions of Access, Engagement and Creative Experience. (ed) Kelly L. Anderson. Vernon Press, 2022
Place-Based Sustainability: Research and Design Extending Pathways for Ecological Stewardship. (ed) Jason Montgomery. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022
The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods. (ed) Caroline Donnellan. Vernon Press, 2021
Critical Practices in Architecture: The Unexamined. (eds) Jon Bean, Susannah Dickinson, Aletheia Ida. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020
Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society. (eds) Matthew Jones, Louis Rice, Fidel Meraz. Vernon Press, 2019
From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing. (eds) Graham Cairns, Georgios Artopoulos, Kirsten Day. UCL Press, 2017
Housing the Future – Alternative Approaches for Tomorrow. (eds) Rachel Isaac-Menard and Graham Potts. Libri Publishing, 2016
Design for a Complex World: Challenges in Practice and Education. (ed) Graham Cairns. Libri Publishing, 2015

Sample Journal Special Issues

Histories of Health. Architecture_MPS ISSN 2050-9006. Vol 24 Nos.1-4. 2023
Art, Space and Activism. Architecture_MPS ISSN 2050-9006. Vol 20 Nos.1-4. 2021
Decolonising the Curriculum. Architecture_MPS ISSN 2050-9006. Vol 21 Nos.1-4. 2022
Art, Image & Place. Architecture_MPS ISSN 2050-9006. Vol 20 Nos.1-4. 2021
Re-Design Teaching Design. Architecture_MPS ISSN 2050-9006. Vol 18 Nos.1-4. 2020.

Sample Conferences

Urban Futures – Cultural Pasts. Barcelona. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 15-17 July, 2024
Local Culture – Global Spaces. Virtual. University of Melbourne, Louisiana State University, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 05-07 Dec, 2023
Heritages – Prague. Czech Republic. Czech Technical University. 28-30 June, 2023
Representing Pasts – Visioning Futures. Virtual. Queen’s University Belfast | Cape Peninsula University of Technology | National University of Singapore, 1-3 Dec. 2022
Intangible Heritages. University of Kent. Canterbury. 15-17 June, 2022
Connections: Heritage, Architecture, Cities. University of Kent. Canterbury. 28-30 June, 2020
Tangible-Intangible Heritage(s). University of East London. 13-15 June, 2018

Books | Journal | Proceedings | YouTube | Conferences

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