Featured project
Re-Emerging Pasts
A forthcoming anthology on future stories in the global heritage industry, focusing on communal memory, authorized heritage, and postcolonial legacies across the Global South.
Featured Work
Projects that move between heritage research, storytelling, film, archives, and public imagination.
The public Heritage Lab site uses featured projects to show the range of the platform: films, books, research databases, thematic experiences, and collaborative heritage experiments.
Editorial focus
Featured Work is the bridge between the editorial shell and the deeper project ecosystem. It helps a visitor understand how Heritage Lab spans archives, screen-based storytelling, field research, memory work, and connected heritage landscapes.
The current live site points especially toward Re-Emerging Pasts, TreeRouted, The Golden Harvest, and the Shipping Database as representative threads.
Featured project
TreeRouted
A story environment connecting memories of trees, climate change, trade routes, diaspora, and sustainability across distant communities.
Featured project
Bronze Age Boat
A heritage experiment focused on ancient watercraft, maritime knowledge, and the reconstruction of connected seafaring histories.
Featured project
The Shipping Database
A major maritime research archive with tens of thousands of searchable records on Dutch voyages, ship types, ports, and trade activities.
Featured project
The Golden Harvest
An award-winning feature film that traces olive oil, Mediterranean memory, family heritage, and conflict across Greece, Spain, Italy, and Palestine.
Why these projects matter
They show how the platform uses different media and research formats to think through heritage.
Media
Film and moving image
The Golden Harvest demonstrates that Heritage Lab is not only about maps, but also about documentary narrative and public memory through film.
Publishing
Books and anthologies
Re-Emerging Pasts expands the platform into scholarship about future heritage, tourism, nationalism, labor, and collective memory.
Archive
Data and archive systems
The Shipping Database shows how large-scale research records can be surfaced as public heritage infrastructure.
Experience
Thematic story worlds
TreeRouted demonstrates how personal recordings and shared ecological memory can become a global storytelling experience.
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