1. Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Patcharawee Tunprawat Specialist in Cultural Heritage Management SEAMEO-SPAFA

2. 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?

3. Look Kuang, Lao Song Ethnic

4. Terracotta Buffalo, Dan Kwien

5. Wooden Man, India

6. Nang Kwak Amulet, Thailand

7. Roman Lamp

8. Wooden Warrior

9. Persian Manuscripts

10. Bayon Temple

11. Cultural Heritage Components of Cultural Heritage: Materials / Cultural Expressions Knowledge Values Communities

12. Cultural Heritage Tangible Heritage Monuments, historic buildings, archaeological sites, collections, archives

13. Cultural Heritage Intangible Heritage Traditional knowledge, wisdom, ways of life, rituals, cultural practices, performances

14. Living Heritage

15. Herbal medicine doctor teaching students on the benefits of different herbs.

16. Balanced Conditions Happy Heritage Traditional Materials Traditional Knowledge Traditional Community Suitable soil chemistry and biological components Suitable and Stable Climate e.g. temperature, moisture, UV rays

17. Imbalanced Conditions Sad Heritage

18. 4,500 year-old male skeleton at the Ban Natong prehistoric cave site in the North of Thailand

19. 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.

20. SPAFA published a journal on Impact of the Cyclone Nargis on Cultural Heritage Monuments in Myanmar.

21. 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

22. Flooding

23. Coastal Erosion

24. Salt Crystallization and Dissolution

25. Lichen

26. Termites/ Pest

27. 100 places to remember www.100places.com

28. Ban Hueng Klang Village, Sekong, Lao PDR ICCROM – SPAFA – Department of Heritage, Lao PDR

30. 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

31. Communal House 50-60 years old Ban Hueng Klang River

42. One day after: Tropical Storm Ketsana, 2009

43. Documentation of the Village’s Settlement Pattern

44. What is left of the village.

45. Model of the Village Hall

46. 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

47. 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

48. Kaewwanna Living Indigo Museum

50. Learning about Moh Hom, a traditional way of life

51. Cooking local dishes

52. เที่ยวบ้านเก่า เข้าใจ ภูมิปัญญา Visiting old houses

53. Roleplaying and Puppet-making

54. Interconnectedness