Innovate Heritage: on Arts in Heritage Today is an international anthology with Springer Publishers (Germany). 

Elliat Creative is

• Lead on project management
• Main contact for academic publisher and all contributors
• Director of editorial copy with 15 contributing authors and artists, and forwards from two German organizational partners
• Managing the compilation and organization of 200 page manuscript and image catalogue

The 15 contributing authors and visual artists represent Italy, the US, Iran, Germany, Syria, Australia, England, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Nigeria, Buylgaria, Netherlands, Ireland, Spain and Macadonia.

Project Description

This book brings together a broad range of voices to foster a dialogue within and across  multiple and overlapping focus areas where heritage and arts meet. Borne out of contributions to the international conference Innovate Heritage: Conversations between Arts and Heritage, held at ZK/U Berlin in 2014, this volume brings together the duality of original contributions with contemporary responses from the authors. That is, engaging in a transformative dialogue between past, present, and future. Through revisiting their work through this unique time-lapse format, the contributors practice what they theorize in their works: namely, challenging the traditionally conservative stance of heritage theory by promoting creative, innovative, evolving relationships to and experiences of heritage.

In addition to a dialogue across time, this book’s collection of contributors touch on the key elements of heritage from a range of creative disciplines – renowned artists, designers, cultural economists, curators, architects, academics – from across the globe. Together, through essays and visual imagery, they use the occasion of the 50th anniversary of UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention as a framework to (re)examine how creatives provide value to the heritage sector and play an integral role in envisioning the present and future. With topics ranging from arts and heritage in conflict zones, the role of art biennales, curation and post-colonialism, museums and dark heritage, and the heritage of subcultures, this book is of interest to anyone working at the intersections of heritage and art.