• economic rationalism requires that heritage pays its way;
• technological change progresses at ever faster rates threatening to outpace our capacity to assess the significance of structures and places before they are demolished;
• the general public is increasingly multi-cultural, leading to a fractionation of traditional stakeholder groups;
• the cultural influences acting on local communities are global.

The aims and objectives heritagefutures are to

• to promote professional, public and political debate on the future of cultural heritage and its socio-economic impact over a thirty-year horizon;
• to inform relevant professionals, educators, decision-makers and policy-makers;
• to anticipate and analyse developments affecting cultural heritage and its management, both as a professional discipline and as activities impacting on society;
• to research, advocate and act at the local, regional, state, national and international level.