Whether ruins abandoned in a forest, revived folk dances, infrastructure built around temples to facilitate pilgrims, palaces, or vernacular sites forgotten and contested in a city, HaP contends that it is people’s joint investment in what they declare as worthy of being preserved and cared for that creates, reimagines, or hampers heritage. Through interlinked subprojects at its diverse yet politically and thematically entangled field sites, Heritage as Placemaking seeks to understand the preconditions for heritage and/or its erasure, as well as why and under which social and political circumstances heritage becomes a catalyst to enable the social cohesion that sustains it.