Meetings and Researches
2021 Expert Meeting for Building Network on Maritime ICH
- Date19 Jan 2024
OUTLINE
Date |
29 October 2021 (tentative) |
Venue |
Online |
Theme |
Maritime Living Heritage: Coastal
Communities in the Asia-Pacific Region and Their Traditional Food System
|
Language |
English |
Co-organizers |
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Background
The Convention for the Safeguarding of the
Intangible Cultural Heritage recognizes the importance of intangible cultural
heritage (hereafter ICH) as a guarantee of sustainable development, as well as
a means of promoting cultural diversity. In an expansive view of ICH as a body
of knowledge, belief systems, and practices which pertain to those found on
land as well as those exercised in connection to different bodies of water,
maritime cultural heritage is defined in this webinar series as natural resources,
traditional customs, archeological sites, and established locality thoughts
that form cultural practices of coastal communities and people whose cultural
and economic lives are informed by a body (or bodies) of water.
In thinking of maritime ICH, it is crucial
to remember the Sustainable Development Goal (hereafter SDG) 14 on the
conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for
sustainable development, and SDG2 on the promotion of sustainable agriculture
to achieve food security. These goals constitute a global agenda that mobilizes
guidelines and instruments both at the local and international levels to
address food production and consumption as a living system that exists in
diverse forms in different social contexts. In this light, it is necessary to
have a better understanding of the food ways of indigenous peoples and
traditional societies for existing policies and highly technological practices
to be in place also for the needs of the ecosystem and living heritage in a time
of climate change.
Communities have developed traditional food
system based on a comprehensive approach to a specific life-style and
environmental setting. Traditional food system, therefore, is dynamic and
complex, involving knowledge, histories, socialization, and performances. All
these areas of traditional food system should be carefully analyzed in search
for food security and quality livelihood particularly in restrictive spaces due
to COVID-19 pandemic.
HISTORY
For the past few years, ICHCAP has been
working with relevant communities and scholars in the pursuit of maritime ICH
safeguarding. In 2018, ICHCAP and the National Research Institute of Maritime
Cultural Heritage of Korea organized a maritime seminar on Ship,
Navigation and People in
the Republic of Korea. Following that in 2019, ICHCAP partnered with the Hoi An
Center for Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation to conduct a seminar
on MaritimeTraditional
Beliefs and Practices in Hoi An, Viet Nam. In 2020, when the global
pandemic was wide spread, ICHCAP held the expert meeting online as an ICH
Webinar Series in collaboration with UNESCO Apia Office, under the theme
of Maritime
Living Heritage – Building Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in the
Asia-Pacific Region. Building upon the previous seminars on maritime ICH,
ICHCAP and SPC are co-organizing the forth session of maritime seminar on
Coastal Communities and Their Traditional Food System.
OBJECTIVES
- To improve our awareness of the relation between maritime ICH
and the pillars of sustainable development, namely environmental
sustainability, inclusive social development, and economic development;
- To explore maritime ICH transmission and safeguarding activities
for environmental sustainability and resilience;
- To establish a network of diverse stakeholders for the
safeguarding of maritime ICH in the Asia-Pacific region.
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