PITCH seeks to explore how cultural heritage can provide Europe’s citizens with confidence to collectively tackle the many challenges on the road towards a carbon neutral society.

By analysing the historical impact of fossil fuels on cultural heritage, PITCH aims to highlight how past and present cultural heritage practices reflect social, economic, and political changes. Further information about the project is available at our in progress website at https://pitch-horizon.eu.

The grantee’s responsibilities, allocated to WP1, will be to:

• Conduct archival and historical research along with bibliographic searches of the simultaneous rise of petrocultures and heritage cultures and their entanglement. The data collected through WP1’s comparative approach will provide the historical and contextual background leading to the interventions in museums, landscapes, and industrial sites;