Care for the Future Sue Hanshaw Strategy and Development Manager Cultures and Heritage 15 th February 2012

Care for the Future Thinking Forward Through the Past generating new novel understandings of the relationship between the past and the future, and the challenges and opportunities of the present through a temporally inflected lens

Five Sub-Themes 1.Changing families and communities 2.Culture and heritage – adapting for the future 3.Environmental change and sustainability 4.Global trauma, conflict and cultural memory 5.Cultural notions of the future

Changing Families and Communities Links with Connected Communities Discussion papers “Temporal Connectivities: A scoping study of the available research on time and community ” (Dr Bastian, Manchester) Research for Community Heritage (with HLF and NCCPE) “Looking Back for the Future: the value of the past in developing the lives of young people” (Dr Hicks, Lincoln) Scoping Studies “Connected Communities: Imagining the Place of Home” (Professor Bennett, Leeds)

Cultures and Heritage – Adapting for the Future International Links: European Joint Programming Initiative “Cultural Heritage and Global Change: a new challenge for Europe” developing a common vision between the 15 participating countries, which will be implemented through a Strategic Research Agenda Connected Communities links: CC12 Research for Community Heritage projects e.g. “Building Shared Heritages: Cultural Diversity in Leicester” (Dr Tallack, Leicester) Scoping Studies e.g. “Communities as constructs of People and Architecture: Historically assessing the spatial legacy of The Troubles in inner-city Belfast, ” (Mr Coyles, Ulster).

Environmental Change and Sustainability Enhancing the Role of Arts and Humanities Perspectives on Environmental Values and Change (RECN follow-on funding - 6 awards Dec 2011) Links with CC11 Communities, Culture and Sustainability (Workshop May Follow-on-Funding) Links with AHRC collaboration with the National Ecosystem Assessment (cultural ecosystems - services, cultures, values)

“Before the Flood”: Interweaving situated performance and flood narratives for resilience building in hard-to-reach urban flood risk communities”

Collaborative working between REC networks (Performance Footprint Network/Living Flood Histories) Wide ranging Partnerships (e.g. National Flood Forum, Residents’ Associations, Local Authorities, River Advocacy Groups, Community Groups) Public engagement – residents as participants and performers Cross-disciplinary perspectives – creative and performing arts, cultures and heritage, living histories

Highlight Notices Fellowships – 2 successful awards (continues until December 2012) Research Networking – 4 successful awards (continues until July 2012) Research Grants (forthcoming) on temporal perspectives on environmental values and change

Highlight Notice Examples Brubaker - Iconoclasms: practices of the past; interpretations of the present Marstine - Developing a Research Network to Advance 21st-Century Museum Ethics in Theory and Practice De Jong - Utopian Archives: Excavating Pasts for Postcolonial Futures (awarded in Jan 2012) Lee - Their Crime is Being Born: Children born of war in the 20th century

AHRC-NWO Humanities Research Networking and Exchange Scheme The cultural politics of catastrophe: (Post)colonial representations of Southeast Asian and Caribbean disasters, Landscapes of war, trauma and occupation. Painful heritage and the dynamics of memory in post-1989 Europe Collecting the Performative - A Research Network on Emerging Practice for Contemporary Performance Art: Museum Collections, Acquisition and Conservation.

Skills Development “Researching the contemporary moral landscape: concepts, methods and approaches to public engagement” (Professor Lynch, Kent) Aim: “to generate effective knowledge of ‘ethical, moral, cultural and social landscapes to inform discussion of key challenges facing society’” Care for the Future sub-themes: 1. Changing families and communities 5. Cultural notions of the future

Sub-Themes Further Development “Changing families” 4 Global trauma, conflict and cultural memory 5 Cultural notions of the future

Future Activities Research development calls for less well developed sub- themes/topics Possible linked workshops to launch the calls International – JPI activities Longer and larger call anticipated in 2013 Activities/research outcomes to feed into Care for the Future development – for example: CC3 scoping studies discussion papers CC10 scoping studies and research reviews CC11 communities culture and sustainability workshop Awards under Highlight Notices