Heritage Futures: A Training Programme for Makers and Archivists
These partners are involved in Heritage Futures.
TextielMuseum
The TextielMuseum is a working museum, where textile design, art, fashion, industrial heritage and innovation come together. Jantiene van Elk is curator library at the museum, where she cares for and shares the rich library collection of books, archives, sample books, manuscripts, and other information forms on textile history, design, art and technique.
SBHK
The Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (SBHK) develops and supports projects focused on the maintenance and conservation of contemporary visual art. Through collaborations with collection managers, curators, and conservators, it promotes sound practices that benefit everyone involved with the art.
Beeld & Geluid
The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision is the Dutch institute for media culture, managing one of the largest digitised media archives in the world, including radio, television, YouTube videos, objects, written press, podcasts and video games. Through a variety of research projects and collaborations, Sound & Vision keeps its collections accessible to heritage professionals, researchers and investigative journalists, while developing and sharing knowledge, tools and methods to better understand media heritage and the changing media landscape.
Reinwardt Academie
The Reinwardt Academy is a higher education institution within the Amsterdam University of the Arts, offering BA and MA programs that emphasize practical professional training in cultural heritage. Complementing this, the academy's Cultural Heritage research group initiates, guides, and supports research focused on the value and function of socially engaged heritage work.
University of Amsterdam
Annet Dekker
Annet Dekker is an Associate Professor at the Dual MA Archival and Information Studies and the MA Comparative Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, and Visiting Professor and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University.
Michael Karabinos
Michael Karabinos is a lecturer of Archival Studies (University of Amsterdam) focusing on colonial and displaced archives. From 2020-2025 he was a member of the Collecting Otherwise group at the Nieuwe Instituut. He was also a member of the Raad voor Cultuur committee on Colonial Archives and was an editor of the books Open Archief and Colonial Legacy in Southeast Asia: The Dutch Archives.
Geschiedenislab
Geschiedenislab (history lab) explores heritage, culture, and social issues through historical research, archival research, and oral history.
IISG – International Institute for Social History
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) aims to be an inspiring and inclusive space that attracts people because they are interested in socio-economic history, with themes such as inequality, labour, social movements, climate, migration, and slavery. The institute is a hub for a wide range of interested people from around the world.
de Appel
de Appel is a daring institution that is internationally known as an alternative institutional model, born out of artists' need to present performance and video art. Today, de Appel continues to act as a host for artistic and curatorial experimentation.
James Parnell
James Parnell is a curator, teacher, and performer who focuses on community building, collective learning, and the conflicts that arise in these practices. Throughout his career, he has explored ideas of community-engaged archiving with the WORM Pirate Bay, his collaboration with IHLIA archive, and the short film Black Trans Joy.
Ari Ralph
Ari is a queer transdisciplinary artist, archivist, researcher, community programmer and writer. Their practice embraces the monstrous, continuously working to disrupt norms and challenge the boundaries of identity, visibility, and belonging.
Ashna Wiegerink
Ashna Wiegerink is an archivist, activist, and artist. Her passion lies in demystifying archiving for those working within the cultural sector. Her goal is to make archival practices accessible and actionable for those looking to integrate preservation work into their organisations.
Archivo Nacional Aruba
The Aruban National Archives (ANA) is responsible for the housing, care and preservation of archives that have a historical value for Aruba; considered to be the 'national memory and cultural heritage' of the island. ANA aims to expand its services fully, where the national-cultural-historical archives are kept in a responsible manner for the benefit of the litigant and information-seeking citizens, researchers and for the future generations who want to know more about the history of Aruba.
Biblioteca Nacional Aruba
Aruba's National Library is a dynamic Information and knowledge centre for all that offers information, education, cultural activities and recreation. The library offers books in 6 languages, Dutch, Papiamento, English, Spanish, German and French.
Counter/Narratives Counter/Narratives (C/N) is a collaborative multimedia platform that brings together artists, researchers, community organizers, and cultural practitioners to challenge dominant historical and cultural narratives within the Caribbean. Focusing predominantly on the ABC-SSS islands and their diaspora, C/N seeks to create space for local oral (hi)stories and knowledge often overlooked or marginalized within formal institutions, and foster inclusive, community-driven storytelling and knowledge-sharing.
Karin de Wild
Karin de Wild is an art historian and curator, who is currently Assistant Professor in Contemporary Museum and Collection Studies at Leiden University. She has written books and curated exhibitions, primarily in the field of digital arts and culture.
LI-MA
LI-MA is a platform for digital art and media art in Amsterdam. With years of experience in conservation and management and as a leading pioneer in the field, LI-MA plays a key role in the future-proof archiving, conservation, distribution and presentation of works from the field of media art.
Lonneke van Heugten
Lonneke van Heugten is a poet-performer, city poet of Alkmaar and frontwoman of the poetrypunk band GALM. As one the NADD’s Archive Doctors she writes poetic prescriptions for archival maladies, combining playfulness with her background as a cultural researcher.
Prospektor
Prospektor is a storytelling company that tells great stories through their much-awarded films, documentaries, books, websites, and transmedia. With these stories they hope to reach new audiences for untold stories, forgotten places.
Stichting Monumentum
Monumentum is a cultural knowledge and heritage center with a decolonial and anti-colonial perspective. It serves as an interdisciplinary platform for knowledge transfer, documentation, preservation, and collaboration within the cultural sector, providing a space for underrepresented perspectives.
The Hmm
The Hmm is a platform for internet cultures. We explore and celebrate the creativity sparked by virtual interactions and their interplay with the technologies shaping them. Through accessible events, research, exhibitions, and educational programs, we offer curious audiences playful and engaging insights into online life.
Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland
Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland is the provincial support, networking, and knowledge centre for tangible and intangible heritage in South Holland. With their knowledge, expertise, and networks, they support and connect the province, municipalities, historical societies, archives, museums, schools, historic site managers, businesses, and volunteers.
This project was made possible thanks to:
RCE