Postgraduate Course: Heritage Practice and Global Challenges (fusion on-site) (EFIE11316)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Futures Institute |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | *Programme Core Course: Cultural Heritage Futures (MSc/PGD/PGC)*
In this course, you will learn how to draw on heritage to respond to pressing social, economic, and environmental issues. Through challenge-led approaches, you gain knowledge of cutting-edge work that is transforming how we study, preserve, and utilise the past to design strategies and find solutions for a more sustainable future.
You will acquire a critical understanding of how heritage research and practice can act as enablers and drivers of sustainable development, and respond to the critical challenges society faces. On completion, you will be able to evaluate initiatives that leverage heritage assets (sites, traditions, collections, monuments, etc.) and values to achieve economic, environmental, and social development sustainably. You will be able to apply relevant concepts and methods practically, to address some of the World's most pressing and complex issues - e.g., climate change, poverty alleviation or equitable societies - from a heritage perspective. |
| Course description |
This course will introduce the different ways in which heritage can contribute to respond to today's main global challenges, marrying global sustainable development agendas with local realities and needs. The course will introduce the evolution of the debates that relate culture, including heritage, to sustainable development as a key enabler to achieve this. It will present the current International Agreed Development Goals (i.e. United Nations Agenda 2030, The United Nations Ocean Decade for Sustainable Development, etc.) and the different strategies developed at international, national and local level to utilise natural and cultural heritage, tangible and intangible, to achieve better livelihoods and well-being.
Students will learn about the different strategies approved by a myriad of stakeholders at international, national or local levels (i.e. within UNESCO Convention's strategies, Preparedness and Response strategies, etc.) to make heritage part of the solution to today's main challenges. The course will present evidence-based case studies from specific research projects that aim to harness economic, social, and environmental sustainable development through heritage preservation (i.e. The Rising from the Depths Network). The course will also cover the following topics: Heritage, Local Needs and Global Challenges; Heritage and the UN Sustainable Development Goals; Heritage and the Sustainability of the Oceans.
Teaching will combine:
1) Mini-lectures and discussions of current and emerging issues, theoretical approaches, and results from challenged-led projects.
2) Individual and group-based analysis of specific studies from different regions and focusing on various challenges (e.g., poverty, economic crisis, climate change, conflict, economic development, Blue Economy, etc.).
Researchers and practitioners working in the field of Heritage and Sustainable Development will be invited to share their experiences with students during the course. This will also provide an important opportunity to network with key players in the sector and will significantly contribute to students' career development.
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) - On-Site Fusion Course Delivery Information:
The Edinburgh Futures Institute will teach this course in a way that enables online and on-campus students to study together. This approach (our 'fusion' teaching model) offers students flexible and inclusive ways to study, and the ability to choose whether to be on-campus or online at the level of the individual course. It also opens up ways for diverse groups of students to study together regardless of geographical location. To enable this, the course will use technologies to record and live-stream student and staff participation during their teaching and learning activities.
Students should be aware that:
- Classrooms used in this course will have additional technology in place: students might not be able to sit in areas away from microphones or outside the field of view of all cameras.
- Unless the lecturer or tutor indicates otherwise you should assume the session is being recorded.
As part of your course, you will need access to a personal computing device. Unless otherwise stated activities will be web browser based and as a minimum we recommend a device with a physical keyboard and screen that can access the internet.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 6,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 8,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
84 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessments are seen as means of scaffolding and facilitating learning throughout the course.
In line with this ethos, the assessments are designed as follows:
Formative Assessment:
By the end of week 1 of the pre-intensive period, students will share a post (ca 500 words) presenting the individual research they did on the main challenges and heritage assets of an area of their choice By the end of week 2 of the pre-intensive period, students will comment on at least one post shared by one of their colleagues in week 1 (ca 100 words) (ILO1, 2, 5).
Summative Assessment:
The course will be assessed by means of the following assessment components:
1) 1000 Word Position Paper (100%)
Students will submit a position paper (1000 words), where they will reflect critically on whether and how heritage can contribute to sustainable development in the chosen areas, proposing innovative ways and recommendations based on the knowledge acquired during the course. Students will reflect on how the identified heritage assets are impacted by current challenges, and whether and how they could be part of the solution rather than obstacles to sustainable development (ILO 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5). This component will be graded and make up 100% of the overall assessment. |
| Feedback |
Students will receive formative feedback on their coursework orally during the intensive - as part of the discussions following lectures and at the end of each day.
Furthermore, they will have the opportunity to discuss issues and ask questions during the Course Organiser's office hours.
They will also receive written summative feedback after the submission of the position paper, at the end of the course. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical understanding of the contribution of cultural heritage in the development of strategies addressing global challenges, notably in the framework of Internationally Agreed Development Goals (IADGs).
- Implement culturally sensitive approaches to assess the different cases in which heritage can be an asset for economic, social, and environmental sustainable development.
- Critically analyse the challenges and potentials of data innovation in heritage practices aimed at sustainable development, identifying knowledge needs and gaps.
- Communicate the processes and outcomes of the critical analysis of how heritage canharness economic, social and environmental sustainable development to a wider audience.
- Collaborate as part of multicultural and diverse teams to develop recommendations for improving the ways in which heritage is leveraged to respond to the world's main challenges and sustainable development agendas.
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Reading List
Indicative Reading List:
Essential Reading:
Cross, Charlotte, and John Giblin. 2022. Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003107361
Henderson, Jon. 2019. 'Oceans without History? Marine Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development Agenda.' Sustainability (Switzerland) 11 (18). https://doi.org/10.3390/su11185080.
Labadi, S. 2022. Rethinking Heritage for Sustainable Development. UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv280b66f
Petti, Luigi, Claudia Trillo, and Busisiwe Ncube Makore. 2020. 'Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Targets: A Possible Harmonisation? Insights from the European Perspective.' Sustainability 2020, Vol. 12, Page 926 12 (3): 926. https://doi.org/10.3390/SU12030926.
Wiktor-Mach, Dobrostawa. 2018. 'What Role for Culture in the Age of Sustainable Development? UNESCO's Advocacy in the 2030 Agenda Negotiations.' 26 (3): 312-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1534841.
Recommended Reading:
Bandarin, Francesco, Jyoti Hosagrahar, and Frances Sailer Albernaz. 2011. 'Why Development Needs Culture.' Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 1 (1): 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/20441261111129906
Di Giovine, Michael. 2017. 'UNESCO's World Heritage Program: The Challenges and Ethics of Community Participation.' Between Imagined Communities of Practice 2015: 83-108. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.gup.213.
Giliberto, Francesca, and Sophia Labadi. 2021. 'Harnessing Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Development: An Analysis of Three Internationally Funded Projects in MENA Countries.' https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2021.1950026.
Henderson, Jon, Colin Breen, Luciana Esteves, Annamaria La Chimia, Paul Lane, Solange Macamo, Garry Marvin, and Stephanie Wynne-Jones. 2021. 'Rising from the Depths Network: A Challenge-Led Research Agenda for Marine Heritage and Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa.' Heritage 2021, Vol. 4, Pages 1026-1048 4 (3): 1026-48. https://doi.org/10.3390/HERITAGE4030057.
Jelincic, Daniela Angelina, and Sanja Tisma. 2021. 'Ensuring Sustainability of Cultural Heritage through Effective Public Policies.' Urbani Izziv 31 (2): 78-87. https://doi.org/10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2020-31-02-002.
Labadi, Sophia. 2018. 'Historical, Theoretical and International Considerations on Culture, Heritage and (Sustainable) Development.' World Heritage and Sustainable Development: New Directions in World Heritage Management, July, 37-49. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315108049-4/
Nocca, Francesca. 2017. 'The Role of Cultural Heritage in Sustainable Development: Multidimensional Indicators as Decision-Making Tool.' Sustainability 2017, Vol. 9, Page 1882 9 (10): 1882. https://doi.org/10.3390/SU9101882
Rey da Silva, Arturo. 2020. 'Sailing the Waters of Sustainability. Reflections on the Future of Maritime Cultural Heritage Protection in the Global Sea of Development.' European Post-Classical Archaeologies 10: 345-72.
Varmer, Ole, Mark J. Spalding, and Alexandra Refosco. 2020. 'Integrating Underwater Cultural Heritage into the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.' In ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2020., edited by V. Mastone and C. Mires, 5-13. Colombus, OH.: ACUA.
Recommended Digital Resources:
https://whc.unesco.org/en/culture2030indicators/
https://en.unesco.org/culture-development/transversal-approaches/culture-and-sustainable-development
https://en.unesco.org/https%3A//www.unesco.org/en/sustainable-development/culture |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will develop the following mindsets and skills while working to achieve the four Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) specified above and, in particular:
- Enquiry and lifelong learning (ILOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
- Aspiration and personal development (ILOs 1, 5)
- Outlook and engagement (ILOs 2, 3, 4, 5)
- Research and enquiry (ILOs 2, 3, 5)
- Personal and intellectual autonomy (ILO 2, 3, 5)
- Personal effectiveness (ILO 2, 4, 5)
- Communication (ILO 4) |
| Keywords | Heritage,Global Challenges,Sustainable Development,EFI,Level 11,PG,Cultural Heritage Futures |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Arturo Rey Da Silva
Tel:
Email: arturo.rey@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Veronica Silvestre
Tel:
Email: Veronica.Silvestre@ed.ac.uk |
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