Heritage Conservation Future: Where We Stand, Challenges Ahead, and a Paradigm Shift Otero Hermo, Jorge Commons Global challenges Heritage conservation Open-science Peer-to-peer Professional activism Social movements J.O.'s current research was funded by the European Commission on the Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA-IF) from the European Union's Horizon 2020 on research and innovation, grant agreement no. 893762 (NANOMORT). The author thanks his professional mentors in Heritage Conservation Prof. A. Elena Charola (Smithsonian Institution, USA), Prof. Heather A. Viles (University of Oxford, UK), and Prof. Carlos Rodriguez-Navarro (University of Granada, ESP) who helped him in one way or the other to develop some of the critical reasonings included in this communication. The author especially thanks Prof. Koenraad Van Balen (KU Leuven, BEL) for initializing him into Prof. Ostrom's research, and in this novel ecosystem of production based on the commons and especially its possible impact on heritage conservation future. The view and opinions of the author expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the University of Granada, the European Commission, or the mentioned mentors. Global cultural heritage is a lucrative asset. It is an important industry generating millions of jobs and billions of euros in revenue yearly. However, despite the tremendous economic and socio-cultural benefits, little attention is usually paid to its conservation and to developing innovative big-picture strategies to modernize its professional field. This perspective aims to compile some of the relevant current global needs to explore alternative ways for shaping future steps associated with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. From this perspective, it is conceptualized how emerging artificial intelligence (AI) and digital socio-technological models of production based on democratic Peer-2-Peer (P2P) interactions can represent an alternative transformative solution by going beyond the current global communication and technical limitations in the heritage conservation community, while also providing novel digital tools to conservation practitioners, which can truly revolutionize the conservation decision-making process and improve global conservation standards. 2021-11-03T12:35:35Z 2021-11-03T12:35:35Z 2021-10-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Otero, J., Heritage Conservation Future: Where We Stand, Challenges Ahead, and a Paradigm Shift. Global Challenges 2021, 2100084. [https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.202100084] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/71262 10.1002/gch2.202100084 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/893762 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH