Colin Sterling

Colin Sterling is currently Senior Lecturer in Heritage, Museums, and the Environment at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), where he leads the BA in Global Arts, Culture, and Politics. Colin’s research explores the political and ecological dimensions of heritage, art, and museums. He is the author of Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past (Sterling 2020) and co-editor of Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene (Harrison and Sterling 2020). His latest edited volume—Aesthetics of Geopower: Contested Planetary Imaginaries—is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. Colin is currently working on a new book project bringing together almost a decade of research on museums and ecology, tentatively titled Museum Planet. From 2020 to 2021, he co-curated the design and ideas competition Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, which culminated in an exhibition at COP26 in Glasgow. Within the JUST ART project, Colin leads research under the “Just Practices” theme.