Acknowledgements
The present study is dedicated to my daughter Alexandra, expected in June 2018. With the hope that never in her life will she have to encounter the dilemma of choosing between a person and a clone
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Notes
1. Petersson and Holtorf, Archaeology of Time Travel.
2. Holtorf, ‘Meaning of Time Travel’, 1.
3. Gilmore and Pine, The Experience Economy; in connection to heritage: e.g. Poulios et al., ‘Heritage as Customer “Experience”’, 97–123.
4. See above 2. 6.
5. Poulios, Past in Present, 13.
6. Smith, Uses of Heritage.
7. Foucault, The Order of Things.
8. Ucko, ‘Enlivening a “Dead” Past’, 67−92.
9. Lowenthal, Past a Foreign Country, 410; Lowenthal, ‘Stewarding Past in Present’, 18−25.
10. We the present generation are also part of this process: the future generations will unavoidably conceive, assess and approach our present, as well as the elements of the past that we choose to protect in the present, in different ways and through different means to ours, framed by their own prejudices.
11. Lowenthal, Past a Foreign Country.
12. Holtorf and Petersson, ‘Time Travel Interview’, 269.
13. Poulios, ‘Reflections on Nara+20’, 158−177.
14. Larsen, ‘Nara Conference on Authenticity’.
15. Stovel et al., ‘Conservation of Living Heritage’; Wijesuriya, ‘Conserving Living Taonga’, 59−70; De Caro and Wijesuriya, ‘Engaging Communities – Capacity Building’, 35–42; Poulios, ‘Strategy in Heritage Conservation’, 16–34.
16. ICOMOS Japan, ‘Nara+20’.
17. Holtorf, ‘Cultural Diversity’, 1–14.
18. The choice of the Temple of the Tooth Relic as an example is not coincidental; it is linked to the contribution of the Temple to the evolution of the discipline of conservation through the application of the living heritage approach.
19. Wijesuriya, ‘Temple of Tooth Relic’, 99−108.
20. Villeneuve, ‘Blade Runner 2049’, 2017.
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Ioannis Poulios
Ioannis Poulios undertook his PhD in heritage management and sustainable development at University College London, and attended MBA electives in business strategy and management at London Business School. Ioannis teaches Cultural Organisations Management at the Hellenic Open University, and is also teaching at UNESCO (Venice Office) School on ‘Sustainable Energy Governance in World Heritage Sites’. Ioannis has collaborated with the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), national and local NGOs, and private firms. His paper ‘Discussing Strategy in Heritage Conservation: a Living Heritage Approach as an Example of Strategic Innovation’ (Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development) received the award of ‘Outstanding Paper’ in the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.