1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice

Edited By Nick Cass, Anna Powell, Sarina Wakefield Copyright 2026
392 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

392 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice explores the role of creativity as a tool for critical engagement with heritage. It provides a comprehensive study of ways in which heritage and creative practice intersect, in research, in practice and in a transnational context. This book introduces researchers, students, creative and heritage practitioners to contemporary practices... Read more

List of Contributors

 

List of Figures

 

Introduction
Nick Cass, Anna Powell, Sarina Wakefield

 

Part 1 Different Possibilities

 

1.     Towards a Metamodern Practice of Heritage
Louise Finney

 

2.     Art, Ethics, and Cultural Resilience: Rethinking Curatorial Practices Through Kamëntšá Ontology and Knowledge
Marcelo Marques Miranda, Jully Acuña Suarez, Milena Aguillón Chindoy, Sandra Mutumbajoy Jacanamejoy, Silvia Jamioy Juajibioy and Sindi Ortega Juajibioy

 

3.     REAL FAKES: creating (remote) immersive sensory experiences that unify the material, the virtual and the social
Carolyn Alexander

 

4.     Heritages Remain as Theatrical Experiments in Mexico: Performing Palimpsest Bodies
Ruth Hellier

 

5.     Creativity at the Core: thoughts on creativity in museums, galleries and schools
Emily Nelson and Amanda Philips

 

6.     Creative Programming in the Literary Heritage Sector amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic: Before, During … and After?
David Rudrum and Helen Williams

 

7.     Following the rove: intangible cultural heritage and creative writing practice 

Sophie Parkes-Nield

 

Part 2 Creative Heritage

 

8.     Recycling Love: Creative responses to the mass removal of love-locks
Ceri Houlbrook

 

9.     Rachel Scales Autograph Cloth
Lynn Setterington

 

10.  Deep Mapping- intersecting engagements with a creative mentalité
Erin Kavanagh

 

11.  Introducing Heritage Scenography: A creative, place-based research methodology
Harriet Parry

 

12.  Cultural Representation and Artistic Presentation in the Public Art of The Gulf Policy, strategy, public access
Marjorie Kelly

 

13.  Creativity as a Critical Tool for Meaningful Heritage Production and Cultural Engagement in Bahrain
Nadine Boksmati-Fattouh

 

14.  Creative practitioners and heritage: a vital ingredient to a cocktail of creativity

Jo Buchanan

 

15.  Heritage and creative practices for global challenges: case studies and lessons learnt from the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund and Newton research portfolios  Alyson Brody, Francesca Giliberto and Luba Pirgova-Morgan

 

Part 3 Thresholds

 

16.   Parading Myths and Legends in Community Climate 
Jenna Ashton

 

17.  How have carnivals affected black cultural manifestations past abolition: Focusing on Brazil and Caribbean carnivals
Beatriz Lobo and Cat Dunn

 

18.  Pokfulam Village, the Aunties’ Studio and the Fire Dragon: Community, art, and heritage preservation

Vivian Ting

 

19.  Endurance: Creativity through crisis

Ilana van Dort and Lynsey McLaughlin

 

20.  Heritage ownership: preservation by affect, form-of-life, and creative practice
Roberta Burchardt

 

21.  Four Gateways to Bahrain – Bab al Bahrain and Belgrave's Modern Monument
Ali Ismail Karimi

 

22.  Re/re/re: Appropriating and Re-assembling Morris Reproductions in a Post-Digital Age
Diana Taylor

 

23.  Brass Art’s this voice; this life; this procession: a sojourn through the home and writings of Virginia Woolf with LiDAR and Kinect as extended practices of light.

Kristin Mojiewicz, Anneké Pettican, and Chara Lewis

 

24.  Doors of perception into borderland worlds: Contemporary audio walking practice in a Victorian garden cemetery  

Romany Reagan

 

Index

Biography

Nick Cass is Associate Professor in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on the relationship between heritage and contemporary art practice. This interest brings together his background as an artist and his experience working in museums.

Anna Powell is Senior Lecturer in Art and Design at the University of Huddersfield. She has an MA in Museum Studies and PhD in History of Art from the University of Leeds. Her research and teaching spans history, theory and practice in contemporary art, graphic design, museums and heritage studies.

Sarina Wakefield is Lecturer in Museum Studies and Dean of Internationalisation at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on the politics of transnational museology. She has over 20 years of experience working on the cultural heritage and museology of the Arabian Peninsula.