Heritage and Design

This Element looks at the relationship between heritage and design by way of a case study approach. It offers up ten distinct portraits of a range of heritage makers located in Goa a place that has been predicated on its difference both historical and cultural from the rest of India. A former Portuguese colonial enclave (15101961) surrounded by what was formerly British India (17761947) the author attempts to read Goa''s heritage as a form of place-ness a source of inspiration for further design work that taps into the Goa of the twenty-first century. The series of portraits are visual literary and sensorial and take the reader on a heritage tour through a design landscape of villages markets photography festivals tailors and clothing books architecture painting and decorative museums. They do so in order to explore heritage futures as increasingly dependent on innovation design and the role of the individual.