Museums
Demonstrate how interventions in museums can make the pervasiveness of petroculture in the collections legible
Industrial heritage sites
Demonstrate that reinterpreting and repurposing industrial heritage sites can foster citizen confidence in green transitions
Heritage landscapes
Demonstrate how interventions in historical energy landscapes can make citizens more aware of petroculture infrastructures
Policy
Give heritage practitioners and policymakers tools for reinterpreting cultural heritage in light of needed green transitions
PITCH’s mission
PITCH’s overarching aim is to enable citizens to confidently engage the constantly changing nature of cultural heritage and its relationship to modern petrocultures, and provide heritage practitioners and policymakers with the tools to repurpose existing and future forms of heritage to facilitate just green transitions.
PITCH brings together academic and cultural sector organisation partners in six countries to spur on the processes by which humanities and arts scholarship and public interventions can strengthen citizen engagement with the constantly changing nature of cultural heritage and its relationship to past and present petrocultures to lay the groundwork for rapid, society-wide European green transitions away from a reliance on fossil-fuels.
Our Work
Cultural heritage, whether in the form of objects, sites, or landscapes, can be mobilised directly in imagining alternative sustainable futures.
Objective 1
Create a deeper understanding of petroculture’s intersections with heritage practices and how this reflects social, economic, and political changes over time
Objective 2
Demonstrate that heritage when reinterpreted within a petroculture frame can foster citizen confidence in green transitions
Objective 3
Develop innovative practices and guidelines for heritage practitioners and policymakers
