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Cultural Heritage and Climate Change

Cultural Heritage and Climate Change. Patcharawee Tunprawat Specialist in Cultural Heritage Management SEAMEO-SPAFA. Activity 1. Look at the museum object given to your group and discuss the following points: What is it? How is it important? How was it made?

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Cultural Heritage and Climate Change

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  1. Cultural Heritage and Climate Change PatcharaweeTunprawat Specialist in Cultural Heritage Management SEAMEO-SPAFA

  2. Activity 1 • Look at the museum object given to your group and discuss the following points: • What is it? • How is it important? • How was it made? • What and who are needed to create it?

  3. Look Kuang, Lao Song Ethnic

  4. Terracotta Buffalo, Dan Kwien

  5. Wooden Man, India

  6. Nang Kwak Amulet, Thailand

  7. Roman Lamp

  8. Wooden Warrior

  9. Persian Manuscripts

  10. Bayon Temple

  11. Cultural Heritage Components of Cultural Heritage: • Materials / Cultural Expressions • Knowledge • Values • Communities

  12. Cultural Heritage • Tangible Heritage Monuments, historic buildings, archaeological sites, collections, archives

  13. Cultural Heritage • Intangible Heritage Traditional knowledge, wisdom, ways of life, rituals, cultural practices, performances

  14. Living Heritage

  15. Living Heritage Herbal medicine doctor teaching students on the benefits of different herbs.

  16. Suitable and Stable Climate e.g. temperature, moisture, UV rays • Balanced Conditions Traditional Knowledge Traditional Community Traditional Materials Happy Heritage Suitable soil chemistry and biological components

  17. Imbalanced Conditions Sad Heritage

  18. 4,500 year-old male skeleton at the Ban Natong prehistoric cave site in the North of Thailand

  19. Climate Change is directly affecting the world’s cultural heritage. • Climate Change is acknowledged by world organizations dealing with heritage management e.g. UNESCO, ICOMOS, Getty Conservation Institute, and ICCROM as one of the most real threats that heritage is facing.

  20. SPAFA published a journal on Impact of the Cyclone Nargis on Cultural Heritage Monuments in Myanmar.

  21. Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage Physical Impact • Direct Impact: Storm, flooding, erosion of coastal areas, melting permafrost, landslides, extreme precipitations, desertification • Indirect Impact: Moisture, vegetation, salt crystallization, pest, biological effects, scarcity of traditional materials

  22. Flooding

  23. Coastal Erosion

  24. Salt Crystallization and Dissolution

  25. Lichen

  26. Termites/ Pest

  27. 100 places to remember www.100places.com

  28. Ban HuengKlang Village, Sekong, Lao PDRICCROM – SPAFA – Department of Heritage, Lao PDR

  29. The Talieng (Trieng) Tribe • 23,000 Talieng people live in southeastern Laos in remote mountainous areas of Sekongand Attapu provinces, near the border with Vietnam. • In the 3rd lunar month of every year the Talieng hold a 7-day ceremony where prayer is held for all Talieng ancestors. Buffaloes are sacrificed in front of the communal village house. 

  30. Communal House 50-60 years old Ban HuengKlang River

  31. One day after: Tropical Storm Ketsana, 2009

  32. Documentation of the Village’s Settlement Pattern

  33. What is left of the village.

  34. Model of the Village Hall

  35. Cultural Impact • Migration of traditional communities • Adaptation causing loss of traditional practices and changing ways of life Change of environment (e.g. climate, vegetation, food etc.) • Loss of Cultural Memory

  36. For the first time in history, climate change makes conservators rethink conservation. • It’s not possible to conserve everything and to conserve forever. • Continuity of knowledge and traditional communities

  37. Kaewwanna Living Indigo Museum

  38. Learning about Moh Hom, a traditional way of life

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