The workshop marks the launch of WP5: “Reclaiming and Redefining Heritage: Data Governance, Displays and Preservation in Collections and Museums”, part of the EDGES project.

Reforesting heritage stems from an urgent reflection on how we relate to museum collections and to the knowledges they hold. More than just a metaphor, reforesting signals an epistemological, ethical, and political gesture — one that engages with crucial contemporary debates, such as the need to ecologise thought, move beyond modernity’s paradigms, and re-enchant experience and subjectivity.

Inspired by the struggles and demands of Indigenous peoples, we invite a reconsideration of museums not as neutral spaces of preservation, but as contested territories — spaces where heritage can be reimagined as a field of healing, listening, and transformation. To reforest is also to allow other forms of memory, presence, and relation to take root and grow, particularly in dialogue with the ongoing cultural, territorial, and spiritual resurgence across Indigenous lands.

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CHAM / NOVA FCSH

Projecto EDGES