Stories of transformation
Hear from participants how their thoughts on intangible cultural heritage were transformed in the HEART pilot courses.
Educator toolkit
Sustainability (12)
Ecosocial education for heritage and wellbeing
This theory-based toolkit unit defines ecosocial education and discusses its relationship to transformative learning and intangible cultural heritage
Making a participant survey
Participant surveys can help develop your activities, as well as giving participants an opportunity to reflect on their learning. Digital tools make participant surveys easy.
Creating safer space to encourage participation
Safer space means everyone can participate in an activity without unnecessary barriers. Each group can define their own principles for creating safer space.
Sustainability in organising art education
Considering the ecological, economic, social and cultural sustainability of your educational activities helps in creating far-reaching positive effects for your work.
Writing exercise: The heritage potluck
How many kinds of intangible cultural heritage influence people's everyday lives?
Exercise: Learning the heritage technique
This working approach can be adapted to any context where the aim is to learn the craft techniques for making a heritage object based on art. In this case, painting is the field of artistic expression.
Exercise: Examine a heritage business
Heritage is not an exclusively artistic field. This exercise is a case study where heritage is a field of economic activity. The exercise can be used in economics and career guidance classes.
An example of sustainability: How the local economy helps support and save an ancient craft
This video explains how the local community of Cisnadioara supports the promotion of the Saxon cultural heritage and supports the traditional local economy. An example is the Pension 7 Linden. It can be used as a case study in applied economics in undergraduate Tourism/Geography courses.
Exercise: Making a “botijo” and learning about heritage
The practical activity of learning a traditional craft can lead to a rich understanding of the intangible heritage that surrounds it. Here, the example is a very typical Spanish piece of pottery: the “botijo” (earthenware pitcher).
Tools from the LIVIND project
A selection of useful tools from the LIVIND project, which focused on living heritage and sustainability
Exercise: Digital heritage
Digital tools play an important role in safeguarding, promoting and preserving heritage. Technology has given us what we now call the third category of heritage — digital heritage. Such digital heritage can be accessed in any context and put to use according to one's creativity.
