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Cultural Heritage and
Climate Change
Patcharawee TunprawatSpecialist in Cultural Heritage Management
SEAMEO-SPAFA
Activity 1
• Look at the museum object given to your group and discuss the following points:
1. What is it? 2. How is it important?3. How was it made?4. What and who are needed to create it?
Look Kuang, Lao Song Ethnic
Terracotta Buffalo, Dan Kwien
Wooden Man, India
Nang Kwak Amulet, Thailand
Roman Lamp
Wooden Warrior
Persian Manuscripts
Bayon Temple
Cultural Heritage
Components of Cultural Heritage:
• Materials / Cultural Expressions• Knowledge • Values • Communities
Cultural Heritage
• Tangible HeritageMonuments, historic buildings, archaeological sites, collections, archives
Cultural Heritage
• Intangible HeritageTraditional knowledge, wisdom, ways of life, rituals, cultural practices, performances
Living Heritage
Living Heritage
Herbal medicine doctor teaching students on the benefits of different herbs.
• Balanced Conditions
Happy Heritage
Traditional MaterialsTraditional KnowledgeTraditional Community
Suitable soil chemistry and biological components
Suitable and Stable Climatee.g. temperature, moisture, UV rays
• Imbalanced Conditions
Sad Heritage
4,500 year-old male skeleton at the Ban Natong prehistoric cave site in the North of Thailand
• 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.
• SPAFA published a journal on Impact of the Cyclone Nargis on Cultural Heritage Monuments in Myanmar.
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
Flooding
Coastal Erosion
Salt Crystallization and Dissolution
Lichen
Termites/ Pest
Ban Hueng Klang Village, Sekong, Lao PDRICCROM – SPAFA – Department of Heritage, Lao PDR
•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.
•23,000 Talieng people live in southeastern Laos in remote mountainous areas of Sekong and Attapu provinces, near the border with Vietnam.
The Talieng (Trieng) Tribe
Communal House50-60 years oldBan Hueng Klang
River
One day after: Tropical Storm Ketsana, 2009
Documentation of the Village’s Settlement Pattern
What is left of the village.
Model of the Village Hall
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
• 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
Kaewwanna Living Indigo Museum
• Learning about Moh Hom, a traditional way of life
Cooking local dishes
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Visiting old houses
Roleplaying and
Puppet-making
Interconnectedness