Building resilience to climate change through Cultural Heritage and Urban Arts
ClimAID is an innovative project idea combining cultural heritage, climate change and Urban Art activities. The idea relies on the promotion of cultural heritage practices in tackling climate change, through arts and technologies. Climate change, according to literature, is an evolving process affecting societies and cultures that constantly had to find solutions to adjust their living according to the new environmental realities.
The impact of climate change on history and culture are often represented in climate policy and research. However, a new trend on research is arising with the reversed objective. How Cultural heritage can provide an insight of methods and good practices to manage climate changes? In order to give answers to the aforementioned, the project adapts a research methodology to identify cultural heritage best practices across Europe and then promote them through digital education and urban art. The project will create a toolbox of best practices, which will be integrated into an open resource platform. The platform will allow users to experience the full implementation of these practices in a 3D environment.
The participation of well-known universities and major cultural actors in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Cyprus will ensure the sustainability of the results by developing an e-learning course especially designed to provide knowledge on the impact of Heritage and Urban Arts to mitigate Climate Change for the needs of Universities, Archaeological sites, tourist guides, cultural centers, museums, municipalities etc.
Project’s activities will be embraced by an Urban art campaign with national street festivals, implementing real wall murals, act performances, music & dance contributions in several cities of project countries. The project aspires to reach out more than 2000 youth, potential beneficiaries and cultural actors due to the large scale campaign and to high impact results.
Coordinator
Célia Quico
Team
Carla Sousa
Inês Marques
Cândida Rocha (Faculty of Engineering, Lusófona University)
Margarida Santos (Project manager)
