Heritage Education for Climate Action

Cultural heritage is increasingly recognized for its contributions to the transition to climate action, and heritage education can play an important role in developing climate adaptation competencies. These can foster positive dialogs surrounding climate change, shift attitudes and inspire actions. However, achieving these goals requires bridging the gap between policy, practice and local capacity building, as well as integrating a multi- and transdisciplinary approach into traditional higher education curricula and models.

Bringing together knowledge, practice and experiences from different disciplinary silos, this book provides a wide set of innovative teaching and learning methods, tools and pedagogical models that can be adapted to heritage education in order to address climate issues. Organized into four parts, Heritage Education for Climate Action covers a wide array of international experiences, real-life cases and practices, focusing on heritage and resilience building, vulnerability and risk assessment, climate change adaptation, mitigation and policymaking.

This book is therefore a source of suggestions and ideas for scholars, educators and professionals who want to develop future climate leadership and contribute to the transition of heritage education toward sustainable development and climate action.

Introduction xi
Irene G CURULLI, Deniz IKIZ KAYA and Arghavan KHAEFI

Part 1 Heritage Education Pedagogies and Approaches for Climate Action 1

Chapter 1 Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogies: Education on Heritage and Climate Change in Europe 3
Pelin GÜROL-ÖNGÖREN, Sibel ACAR, Asli ÖZBEK and Burçin YILMAZ

1.1 Introduction 3

1.2 Climate change and heritage education 4

1.3 Research and analysis 6

1.4 Conclusion 14

1.5 References 14

Chapter 2 Designing "Climatic Constructal Heterotopias" Using Constructal Thermodynamics: Connecting Theories on Architecture and Thermodynamics 17
Lazaros MAVROMATIDIS

2.1 Introduction and general context 17

2.2 Indeterminacy, autonomy, thermodynamics: the concept of constructal "climatic heterotopias" 19

2.3 Macroscopic and microscopic thermodynamics of architectural conception: entropy and evolution 23

2.4 Conclusion 25

2.5 References 28

Chapter 3 Training for Cultural Heritage Protection: The STRENCH Summer Schools 31
Anna KAISER

3.1 The STRENCH project 32

3.2 The STRENCH online summer schools (2020 and 2021) 33

3.3 On-site follow up exercises–the example of "TRITOLIA18" 36

Chapter 4 Pedagogical Aspects of Conservation-Restoration Practice in the Protection of Architectural Heritage 41
Yavor DANKOV, Yakim DEYKOV and Andjela DANKOVA

4.1 Introduction 41

4.2 Application of didactic principles in different target groups 43

4.3 Architecture and CH 46

4.4 The role of didactic games in forming knowledge and attitude toward the CH issues 47

4.5 Conclusion 49 

4.6 References 49

Chapter 5 Educational Video Games on Climate Resilience of Built Cultural Heritage 53
Boyan BONTCHEV, Valentina TERZIEVA, Albena ANTONOVA, Yavor DANKOV and Dessislava VASSILEVA

5.1 Introduction 53

5.2 e-CREHA video games for climate resilience and built heritage 55

5.3 APOGEE approach for generation of enhanced maze video games 55

5.4 Results from two maze video games about resilience and vulnerability of built heritage 57

5.5 Conclusion 60

5.6 References 61

Chapter 6 Heritage Education for Climate Justice and Adaptation 65
Susan ROSS

6.1 Just Transitions: Heritage Education for Climate Adaptation 65

6.2 ICOMOS University Forum – June 3–4, 2022 67

6.3 Knowledge areas for heritage education: panel theme overviews 69

6.4 Land acknowledgement(s) and climate heritage education 71

6.5 Outputs and dissemination 72

6.6 References 73

Chapter 7 Education for Climate Resilient Architectural Heritage (e-CREHA): Multidisciplinary Blended Learning for Climate Resilient Heritage 75
Irene G CURULLI, Deniz IKIZ KAYA, Rossella NOCERA and Luciano DE BONIS

7.1 Introduction 75

7.2 Objectives and methodology 77

7.3 Course assessment activities 79

7.4 ISPs-design workshops 1 and 2 80

7.5 Lesson learned: advancing heritage critical thinking through interdisciplinary teaching 89

7.6 Acknowledgments 90

7.7 References 90

Part 2 Training on Heritage Vulnerability and Risk Assessment 93

Chapter 8 Re-enabling Co-evolutionary Patterns to Reduce Landscape Vulnerability 95
Luciano DE BONIS, Rossella NOCERA and Giovanni OTTAVIANO

8.1 Resilience and vulnerability 95

8.2 Flexibility and "resiliencery vulnerability" 97

8.3 Vulnerability of the Built Environment as natural/human system 100

8.4 Vulnerability of the BCE as vulnerability of landscape heritage 100

8.5 Climate resilient self-sustainable local developments 102

8.6 Fundamentals of climate resilient territorial project 106

8.7 A case study from the Molise region, Italy 108

8.7 References 112

Chapter 9 Lebanon: Landscape at Risk 115
Maria Gabriella TROVATO

9.1 Introduction 115 

9.3 Lebanon 117

9.4 Heritage, climate change and the landscapes at risk 120

9.5 Method 121

9.5.1 Case study 122

9.6 Discussion 125

9.7 Conclusion 131

9.8 Acknowledgments 132

9.9 References 132

Chapter 10 Cultural Resilience of the Oploo Watermill 139
Eva STARK and Lina BEKKER

10.1 Methodology 140

10.2 History of the Oploo watermill 140

10.3 The Sint Matthias Guild 143

10.4 Heritage used for climate resilience 144

10.5 Survey results 146

10.6 Conclusion 146

10.7 References 148

Part 3 Education on Climate Adaptation of Heritage 151

Chapter 11 Case-Based Teaching for Climate Heritage Education: Climate Adaptation of Historic Watermill Landscapes as a Case Study 153
Deniz IKIZ KAYA and Irene G CURULLI

11.1 Introduction 153

11.2 Case study 155

11.3 The educational activities 156

11.4 Discussion: design-oriented pedagogical approaches for climate heritage education 159

11.5 Acknowledgments 160

11.6 References 160

Chapter 12 Increasing Climate Change Resilience by Adapting 20th Century Built Heritage 161
Nihan BULUT

12.1 Introduction 162

12.2 Adaptation of 20th century built heritage and its methodology 163

12.3 Expected results and discussion 171

12.4 Conclusion and further research topics 173

12.5 References 174

Chapter 13 A Transformative Approach to Cultural Heritage Education for Climate Action 177
Paloma GUZMAN and Jelle BUIJS

13.1 Introduction 177

13.2 Cultural heritage perspectives for integrative climate planning 179

13.3 A case study of transformative approaches in higher education 182

13.4 The role of architecture and planning education in fostering transformation towards sustainability? 185

13.5 References 187

Chapter 14 Recalibrating Seasonal Cultures with Communities 191
Scott BREMER

14.1 Seasonal cultures as intangible heritage for climate adaptation 191

14.2 Co-producing seasonal cultures within institutions 193

14.3 Mixed methods for studying and changing seasonal cultures 195

14.4 Affecting adaptation through seasonal cultures 198

14.5 Acknowledgments 199

14.6 References 199

Chapter 15 Integrating Climate Change Concerns in Capacity Building for World Heritage 203
Maya ISHIZAWA ESCUDERO, Eugene JO and Rohit JIGYASU

15.1 Climate change concerns in the World Heritage system 204

15.2 Shifting approaches to World Heritage Capacity Building 206

15.3 Conclusion: a way forward 211

15.4 References 212

Appendices Reflections on the Future of Heritage Education 217

Appendix 1 Heritage as a Discipline in the French Schools of Architecture 219
Lazaros MAVROMATIDIS

Appendix 2 Climate, Heritage, Resilience 229
Irene G CURULLI and Deniz IKIZ KAYA

Appendix 3 Reflection Paper on Degree and Master's Programs on Heritage and Resilience 231
Rossella NOCERA, Luciano DE BONIS and Giovanni PARISANI

Appendix 4 Climate Change and Heritage Issues in Architecture Curricula: The Cases of Turkey, Finland, Denmark and MOOCs 235
Pelin GÜROL-ÖNGÖREN, Sibel ACAR, Asli ÖZBEK, Burçin YILMAZ and Irem KÜÇÜK

List of Authors 239

Index 243

Irene G. Curulli is a practicing architect and landscape architect, with a research and teaching focus on resilient industrial heritage waterscapes. She coordinates the e-CREHA project as well as other multi-disciplinary ERASMUS+ projects and international workshops.

Deniz Ikiz Kaya is Assistant Professor in Heritage and Climate Change at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the nexus of cultural heritage and climate change.

Arghavan Khaefi holds an M.Sc in Architecture and Building Planning from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands. She has been involved in curatorial research and exhibition designs and is interested in contemporary issues reflected in the built environment.