About The Anti Heritage List
The Anti Heritage List is an independent art and cultural project that documents places where urban planning, public space design, and infrastructure appear to have taken a wrong turn.
Inspired by the idea of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this project explores the opposite perspective: What can we learn from places that are difficult to use, unpleasant to experience, or disconnected from human needs?
Using satire as a creative tool, The Anti Heritage List invites visitors to observe, question, and discuss the environments we build around ourselves.
Behind the humor lies a serious intention:
Better cities begin with better questions.
Why This Project Exists
Cities tell stories about our priorities.
Some places encourage encounter, participation, accessibility, and quality of life. Others prioritize traffic, consumption, efficiency, or control in ways that leave little room for people.
The Anti Heritage List collects examples of such places from around the world.
The goal is not to ridicule specific individuals, institutions, or communities. Instead, the project focuses on built environments and planning decisions that raise important questions about how we want to live together.
Each submitted location becomes an invitation to reflect:
- What happened here?
- Why was this decision made?
- Who benefits?
- Who is excluded?
- What could be done differently?
A Satirical Project with a Serious Background
Satire allows us to look at familiar things from unexpected perspectives.
By treating problematic urban spaces as if they were internationally celebrated landmarks, The Anti Heritage List creates a productive contradiction.
The project combines:
- artistic observation
- critical thinking
- urban curiosity
- public participation
The intention is not to shame places but to stimulate dialogue about better alternatives.
About the Creator
The Anti Heritage List was created by Roland Wegerer, an artist, educator, and creative practitioner based in Linz, Austria.
His work moves between art, education, creativity, innovation, and social questions. Through photography, media art, performance, teaching, and creative research, he explores how people interact with environments, technologies, and ideas.
Across his projects, Roland combines artistic experimentation with curiosity, reflection, and interdisciplinary thinking. His work is driven by a simple question:
How can new perspectives help us imagine better possibilities?
More information about his work can be found on:
Participate
Know a place that deserves a nomination?
Submit a location, share your observations, and contribute to a growing international collection of urban planning cautionary tales.
Together we can document the places that remind us why good design, accessibility, and public space matter.