Trees belong to humanity’s heritage, but they are more than that. Their loss, through catastrophic fires or under business-as-usual, is devastating to many forms of life. Moved by this fact, we begin with an assertion that heritage can have an active role in the design of future places. Written from within the field of architecture, this article focuses on structures that house life. Habitat features of trees and artificial replacement habitats for arboreal wildlife serve as concrete examples. Designs of such habitats need to reflect behaviours, traditions and cultures of birds, bats, and other animals. Our narrative highlights the nonhuman aspect of heritage, seeking to understand how nonhuman stakeholders can act as users and consumers of heritage and not only as its constituents. Our working definition states that more-than-human heritage encompasses tangible and intangible outcomes of historical processes that are of value to human as well as nonhuman stakeholders. From this basis, the article asks how the established notions of heritage can extend to include nonhuman concerns, artefacts, behaviours and cultures. As a possible answer to this question, the hypothesis tested here is that digital information can (1) contribute to the preservation of more-than-human heritage; and (2) illuminate its characteristics for future study and use. This article assesses the potential of three imaging technologies and considers the resulting data within the conceptual framework of more-than-human heritage, illuminating some of its concrete aspects and challenges.

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走向超越人类的遗产：树栖栖息地是遗产保护的挑战

树木属于人类的遗产，但远不止于此。他们通过灾难性火灾或照常营业而遭受的损失正在毁灭许多形式的生活。受到这一事实的影响，我们首先断言，遗产可以在未来场所的设计中发挥积极作用。本文是从建筑领域撰写的，着重介绍了居住生活的结构。树木的栖息地特征和树栖野生动植物的人工替代生境就是具体的例子。这些栖息地的设计需要反映鸟类，蝙蝠和其他动物的行为，传统和文化。我们的叙述着重强调了遗产的非人性方面，力求了解非人类利益相关者如何才能充当遗产的使用者和消费者，而不仅是其组成部分。我们的工作定义指出，超越人类的遗产涵盖了对人类以及非人类利益相关者都有价值的历史过程的有形和无形的结果。在此基础上，本文提出了既定的遗产概念如何扩展到包括非人类关注，文物，行为和文化的问题。作为对该问题的可能答案，此处检验的假设是数字信息可以（1）有助于保存人类以外的遗产；（2）阐明其特征，以备将来研究和使用。本文评估了三种成像技术的潜力，并在非人类遗产的概念框架内考虑了所得数据，阐明了其某些具体方面和挑战。