CIE Director of Programs Alia Yunis presentes at the Climate Cartographies: Glitch course organised by the AA Visiting School 25 April 2025–3 May 2025.
The course examines the intersection of climate change and heritage, while also considering innovative ways of representing these themes through the medium of sound. In the past, human settlements were primarily shaped by geographical terrains; today, however, they are predominantly defined by borders. A new conversation has arisen around the challenges posed by border regimes and restrictions on movement, especially in the face of environmental disasters. Valuable insights can be gained from places where border controls are temporarily lifted—areas that exist as anomalies within the modern nation-state system.
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In February 2025, CIE celebrated the release of Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry (Routledge 2025) with an online panel with the authors and editors in a four-year long CIE project. Written by an interdisciplinary group of emerging scholars and heritage professionals connected to these sites through their own heritage, this volume considers how a community can engage with a site’s globalized importance while retaining its own sense of history. Here is the full conversation.

In February 2025, CIE founder Robert Parthesius and Director of Programs Alia Yunis delivered the keynote address at the third edition of Manifest:IO in Berlin, discussing the role of heritage and the arts, particularly as we move into electronic and AI art. CIE was also one of the co-sponsors of the two-day event which brought together heritage-driven artists from around the world.

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