Innovate Heritage
Innovate Heritage is an international and transdisciplinary research platform.
Through events, online media, publications and partnerships, Innovate Heritage facilitates discourse and knowledge exchange between arts and heritage, uniting artists, scholars, and heritage and arts professionals.

What We Do

Conferences
- 2019 International Symposium & Artistic Event CULTURAL COMMONS AND URBAN DYNAMICS: a new economic paradigm for a complex social map
Università di Catanzaro Magna Graecia, Italy - 2016 Innovate Heritage Conference: Art & The City: New Cultural Maps
School of Architecture, Mediterranea University, Italy - 2014 Innovate Heritage: Conversations between Arts and Heritage Conference
Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistiks, Berlin, Germany

Research
- UNESCO Intangible Heritage Committee Meeting, Paris, November 2014
Informational interviews with presenting state parties and cultural bearers - Additional Research Partners include:
- SciArt Society (2021-Present, Joint Research Centre’s SciArt project – Italy)
- Polyhedra (2014-Present, Ongoing Research Initiatives – Italy)
- Seattle Documentary Association (2016-Present, DocForest -USA)
- National Performance Network (2014-2018, Annual Conferences in New Orleans, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, Pittsburg – USA)
- SciArt Society (2021-Present, Joint Research Centre’s SciArt project – Italy)

Publications
- Innovate Heritage: A Time-Lapse
Contemporary Arts and Heritage in Today’s Society
Editors: Caterina Benincasa, Elliat Graney-Saucke and Klaus Zehbe
Forthcoming 2022 - Cultural Commons and Urban Dynamics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Editors: Macrì, Emanuela, Morea, Valeria, Trimarchi, Michele (Eds.)
Springer Verlag, 2020 - Art and Economics in the City: New Cultural Maps
Edited by Caterina Benincasa, Gianfranco Neri, and Michele Trimarchi
Columbia University Press, 2019
Why Innovate Heritage
Within the context of our rich global community, it is critical that we honor the role of living heritage and creativity as well as the legacies and heritage of our ancestors. They both play roles in the construction of culture, the soon to be past, as well as our futures. This confluence allows us to reflect on elemental truths of our humanity.
Elliat Graney-Saucke, Co-Founder/Director
Innovate Heritage is the meeting place of inquiry around where creativity and the past meets the future. It is a necessary discourse in bringing contemporary arts and heritage studies together.
Caterina Benincasa, Co-Founder/Director
About
Innovate Heritage was founded in 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
This international research platform fosters necessary discourse between heritage and arts.
(Header image by OHWB e.V.)
(Background Image by Denise Ferris)