Meetings and Researches
2020 World Forum for Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Date19 Jan 2024
2020
World Forum for Intangible Cultural Heritage
Invitation
Will
our next generation thoroughly enjoy the clean water and fresh air, and
abundance of nature that we all enjoy now?
Environmental
sustainability is the most fundamental and urgent issue for humankind.
Nonetheless, humanity has brought about climate change and the destruction of
the natural environment in a relatively short time. This year, the pandemic of
COVID-19 has caused tremendous causalities and brought significant changes
around the world. Many experts attribute frequent emergence, and climate change
influences the new viruses’ rapid spread in recent decades. The Republic of
Korea is also experiencing more and more side effects of extreme weather every
year, such as extreme heat and cold waves, unprecedented floods, and severe
droughts.
There
has never been a single living species in Earth’s history that has damaged our
planet as much as humankind has had done. How can we prepare and maintain both
environmental and ecological sustainability in the face of natural calamities?
Intangible
cultural heritage is the knowledge and practice of nature and the universe that
individuals and communities worldwide have accumulated through interaction with
nature. Specifically, it refers to knowledge about traditional ecology,
knowledge about local animals, plants and environment, indigenous and native
knowledge, traditional treatment systems, cosmology, etc. Such knowledge and
practice can significantly influence and change our values and beliefs towards
nature. For example, Switzerland and Austria’s avalanche risk management, which
was registered on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2018, is an
excellent example of responding to a natural crisis while strengthening its
identity and sense of camaraderie. Nevertheless, such intangible cultural
heritage has been much threatened by climate change, a series of deforestation,
and desertification due to humankind’s destruction. Therefore, in the 2020
World Intangible Cultural Heritage Forum, we would like to discuss the meaning
and role of the intangible cultural heritage and how it can contribute to
environmental sustainability.
We
hope this forum will serve as a meaningful opportunity to rediscover the value
of intangible cultural heritage and discuss and find new ways to protect
humankind from the ecological crisis. Thank you.
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