Reimagining Museums for Climate Action

Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. From 2017 – 2021 he was Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Heritage Priority Area Leadership Fellow, and from 2015 – 2019 he was Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Heritage Futures Research Programme. He is a joint Director of the UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies and the founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of around 20 books and guest edited journal volumes and almost 100 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, some of which have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Polish and Portuguese language versions. In addition to the AHRC his research has been funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund, British Academy, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Australian Research Council, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the European Commission. 

Colin Sterling is Assistant Professor of Memory and Museums at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on critical-creative approaches to heritage, memory and museums. He is interested in how artists, designers, architects, writers and other creative practitioners engage with museums and heritage as spaces of critical enquiry. Colin is the author of Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past (Routledge, 2020) and the co-editor of Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2020). He is co-editor of the journal Museums & Social Issues.