About this Event
How might cultural heritage be explored as an ongoing set of relationships between people, materials, and other living processes?
The Multispecies Heritage Co-Lab is a speculative workshop that brings together artistic and scientific approaches to explore the multispecies lives of everyday heirlooms - a small assemblage of objects from 1950s Hong Kong. The lab approaches them as an ecological landscape and encourages close attention to how materials, organisms, environments and human continuously reshape one another.
Inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, the workshop invites participants to experiment with new ways of sensing and interpreting heritage through a series of art–science exercises. Through collaborative reflection and smell mapping, participants will contribute to a collective “multispecies archive” that explores how cultural meaning emerges through ongoing interactions between humans, insects, fungi, and materials.
No prior experience is required — only curiosity and a willingness to explore how heritage might be read not only by humans, but also by insects, fungi, and time.
Date: 6 May, 2026 (Wed)
Time: 2.00pm
Venue: UCL Institute of Archaeology, B13
To participate, please contact [email protected]
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
