FutureScapes

Preface.- 1. A future for our heritage? 1.1 A brief overview of the nature of cultural heritage and its management. 1.2 The nature of cultural heritage values. 1.3 The natural of cultural heritage landscapes and the multi-layered nature of their values. 1.4 The current paradigm of retrospective assessment. 1.5 The tension in value conflicts.- 2. The terrestrial heritage present. 2.1 Extreme terrestrial cultural landscapes. 2.1.1 Example: cultural heritage in/of Antarctica. 2.1.2 Example: deep sea shipwrecks. 2.2 (Near) contemporary technological heritage. 2.2.1 Example: obsolete US Aircraft Carriers. 2.2.2 Example: sites, facilities and ships of the US Space Program on Earth. 2.2.3 Example: sites of the Nuclear Age (Los Alamos, Alamogordo, Tinian, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bikini etc). 2.3 Example: impermanence of technological landscapes unless managed. 2.3.1 Example: the TV antenna 'forests' in British row-house suburbs in the early 1960s. 2.3.2 Example: telephone lines strung across open plains in the US & Australia, both making way to different delivery mechanisms (microwave and cable).- 3. Terrestrial heritage futures. 3.1 The theoretical underpinning of future studies. 3.2 Introduce the concept of heritage futures. 3.3 Strategic foresight in heritage. 3.3.1 Example: contemporary architecture at Charles Sturt University's environmentally neutral campus. 3.3.2 Example: the future heritage potential of Australian detention centres (Woomera, Port Hedland, Baxter etc). 3.4 Strategic foresight in existing cultural landscapes. 3.4.1 Futures of present-day cultural landscapes in rural SE Australia affected by global warming. 3.5 Strategic foresight in technological landscapes. 3.5.1 Example: wind farms in the North Sea & California. 3.5.2 Example: the nuclear power stations in Central Europe.- 4. Orbital heritage futures. 4.1 The ethics of preservation in space (ie repositioning obsolete satellites into geostationary stable orbits). 4.2 Conflicting interests of scientific