ABSTRACT
A key challenge is to find ways to overcome anthropocentrism or human-centredness in World Heritage. The chapter focuses on Rjukanfossen (Rjukan Waterfalls). It sheds light on the voice of falling water in order to raise awareness of the human-centredness in World Heritage, which leads to a discussion of alternatives. We can address the challenge as a question: What is to be sustained in World Heritage? Taking the outset in the experience of seeing and hearing Rjukanfossen at Marispelet, an outdoor historical music play close to the cliffs of Rjukanfossen, the author invites readers to feel the message from falling water when the waterfall is transformed from a passive setting for the play to an actor with a voice in the final act. A fluid water-mindset is developed to help us think in terms of connectivity and balance. The chapter concludes that World Heritage should be about sustaining change and dynamic life process, where we must acknowledge the entangled nature of human and more-than-human agents and processes to understand the world’s aliveness.
