Course description

Living Heritage and Sustainable Development

How is intangible cultural heritage – or ‘living heritage’ – related to sustainable development? How is it relevant for addressing today’s development challenges in areas such as health, education, gender, natural disasters and conflict? Why is it important to keep this heritage alive? Communities around the world are transmitting their living heritage, which gives meaning to their lives, strengthens resilience, and contributes to their well-being. In this way intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development are closely linked. The international community made a commitment to safeguarding living heritage when it adopted the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003 and it set itself ambitious goals by adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This course helps to understand the connections between the two.

By taking this course students and other interested learners and professionals will gain a better understanding of intangible cultural heritage and its relationships with sustainable development, exploring examples and experiences of communities from around the world.

By joining the course learners are invited to rethink development from a culture perspective!

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Self-Paced Online
Online
English

Suitability - Who should attend?

Prerequisites

None

Outcome / Qualification etc.

What you'll learn

Knowledge about living heritage and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage;
The role of communities in keeping their heritage alive;
The relationship between intangible cultural heritage safeguarding and relevant development areas such as gender equality, cultural diversity and creativity, education, health, income generation and natural disasters and peacebuilding;
The interdependence between the safeguarding of living heritage and sustainable development;
Communities’ experiences of safeguarding their living heritage for sustainable development in diverse cultural contexts.

Training Course Content

What is intangible cultural heritage?

Chapter 1: Intangible cultural heritage as living heritage
Chapter 2: Key concepts of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Chapter 3: The Convention’s Lists and Register
Chapter 4: The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and other related UNESCO conventions

Communities and their intangible cultural heritage

Chapter 1: Who are the communities?
Chapter 2: Why are communities at the centre of intangible cultural heritage safeguarding?
Chapter 3: Community participation
Chapter 4: Community-based approaches

Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage

Chapter 1: Transmission and safeguarding
Chapter 2: Safeguarding measures
Chapter 3: Inventories and safeguarding plans
Chapter 4: Ethics in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage

Intangible cultural heritage and gender

Chapter 1: Intangible cultural heritage shapes gender identities
Chapter 2: Dynamic gender roles - dynamic living heritage
Chapter 3: Gender-responsive approaches to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage

Intangible cultural heritage for sustainable livelihoods and inclusive social development

Chapter 1: Intangible cultural heritage and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Chapter 2: Intangible cultural heritage and education
Chapter 3: Intangible cultural heritage and health
Chapter 4: Intangible cultural heritage and income generation
Chapter 5: Intangible cultural heritage, food security and agriculture

Intangible cultural heritage for resilience, environmental sustainability and peacebuilding

Chapter 1: Intangible cultural heritage, natural disasters and climate change
Chapter 2: Intangible cultural heritage in conflict-related emergency situations
Chapter 3: Intangible cultural heritage and preventing and solving disputes