The UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage launched their first Annual Photo Competition in 2017.
For its first year, dozens of University College London staff and students entered excellent photographs on the theme of 'Future Heritage', an important research strand in UCL ISH's strategy.
While heritage is often considered in a historical context, much of UCL ISH’s work relates to protecting existing heritage from present and future impacts, which can range from global climate change and conflict to changing technologies and use.
The entries were judged by UCL ISH Director Professor May Cassar, visual anthropologist and artist Marcel Reyez-Cortez and UCL BSEER Communications Manager Alex Blackburn.
UCL ISH Inaugural Photo Comeptition 2017 Entries:
'Long player’ This lighthouse houses Tibetan 'singing bowls' run by algorithms to play a evolving musical composition designed to play without repetition for 1000 years. Ahmed Kawser, UCL BSEER | 'An Uncertain Future’ Mark Kearney, SEAHA PhD Student |
'Vanishing urban media - London‘ Andre Afonso, Architecture Student | 'She is the Future' |
'Turbine Hunting' | 'A glass Ozymandias‘ |
'We scare because we care' | 'Approaching history' |
‘Camping. Exmoor' | 'Colours of the future‘ |
'Connecting heritage - connecting the past, present and future through technological advancement' | 'Discovering Electricity‘ |
'Encroachment‘ | 'Korcula - natural heritage vs man-made heritage' |
'Left Alone' | 'Maize before and after the earthquake‘ |
'Man-made Lagoon Hurghada’ | 'Our Future Heritage' |
'Out of the cauldron into the light' | 'Photographic Recreations - Creating a different future heritage - David Hockney was not here' |
'Portmeirion - A village that exists just to be sustained‘ | 'Preserving Venetian Heritage‘ |
'Shards‘ | 'The Mask' |
'The Passage of Time' | 'The room full of jars' |
'The tour guide‘ | 'This Future Heritage' |
'Too busy selling it to use it‘ | 'Tower hill - old vs new' |
'Turbine Hunting 2‘ | 'Ubud' |
'Vanishing urban media - Bradford (II)‘ | 'Vanishing urban media - Bradford‘ |
‘We scare because we care II’ | 'What Future Heritage' |