Strategic model for future cultural heritage: from components to system

Cultural heritage interpretation as the continuous, integrated and living phenomenon is the core concept of a new paradigm in this field. In particular the cultural landscape analyzed to critically extracting the past experiences to define the sustainable solutions for the future policies. Cultural heritage of the future will be the focal point in multi-criteria, subjects like: circular economy, cross-border cultural dialogues, recovery the past knowledge for future innovation, inspiration to resolving the universal challenges (globalization disadvantages, radicalism and climate change), encouraging communities to play a co-creative role, innovative technologies to protect and valorize local cultures, fostering democratize practicing in society and drawing the new directions in collective memories. On the other hand, threatening factors that can compromise the transition of cultural heritage to future world are similar in several case studies: war, destruction deliberately, illicit trafficking, overlooking in budgets, and destructive mass tourism are the most pressing threats. This research describes the main principles of a cohesive strategic model to converge cultural heritage transition to future as an asset for all humanity and generations. With the multi-criteria approach, cultural heritage should be a central driver source to sustainable economic growth and the long-term effective system. Drawing the conceptual framework for Cultural heritage of the future is the key purpose of this paper. This research was carried out with a descriptive-analytic method that has been applied to recover the interaction between tangible and intangible aspects of cultural heritages.