Workshop about living heritage and sustainable development
In 2025 and 2026, the UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage (University of Tartu) is cooperatig more closely with French counterparts.
As a part of this cooperation, a workshop for people working with living heritage in Estonia is oragnised on 26 June 2025.
The workshop is about sustainable development and safeguarding living heritage.
The workshop is led by internationally renowned experts from France:
- Chiara Bortolotto is an anthropologist and Chiardholder of the UNESCO Chair on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development (CY Cergy Université, Paris).
- Cécile Duvelle is a former head of the Living Heritage Entity at UNESCO.
Safeguarding living heritage and sustainable development
Workshop
Time: 26 June 2025, 10.30-17.30
Place: Univerity of Tartu Ülikool (room to be announced)
Organiser: UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Trainers: Cécile Duvelle and Chiara Bortolotto
Working language: English
Participation fee: no fee
Meals: a light meal is proposed
TOPIC
There is a growing awareness of the importance of living heritage (or intangible cultural heritage) as a contributor to sustainable development. The first part of the seminar provides an overview of how these links are understood and conceptualised today.
The global heritage discourse is changing: living heritage - knowledge and skills passed down from generation to generation - is not only seen as something that needs to be safeguarding. It's growingly pointed out that much of this knowledge can itself help and protect people in a changing world.
The second part of the seminar has a practical focus on safeguarding living heritage in the context of sustainable development. Together with the trainers, exemplary safeguaring measures are drawn up.
The coopereration between the UNESCO Chairs is cofunded by the French-Estonian science and technology cooperation programme PARROT.
See also the homepage and Facebook page of the UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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