中國科技大學深坑文化永續空間治理平臺-

Preserving Legacies Training Program

(1) About Preserving Legacies (P.L.)
    Preserving Legacies project is a collaboration between ICOMOS and the National Geographic Society since early 2023. It aims to empower every community to safeguard their cultural and natural heritage against climate change impacts.
    Led by National Geographic Explorer Dr Victoria Herrmann and with a team including Dr William Megarry (ICOMOS Climate Action Working Group) as the main directing team, Preserving Legacies provides guidance and training resources for the participants, enabling all cultural heritage professionals to identify the phenomena and elements which cause impacts on their cultural heritage sites and communities. Subsequently, the experts can correspondingly take actions, such as monitoring the changes of environments, mitigating or adapting to the threats that climate changes bring about.
    One of the aims of Preserving Legacies is that they want to learn local communities’ indigenous knowledge responding accordingly to climate change. That how to adopt their unique methods and knowledge systems to observe and respond to environmental changes, is the human ingenuity which Preserving Legacies would like to learn from local communities from all around the world.

(2) Our Participation in Preserving Legacies Project
    Since early 2024, we had utilized “Shenkeng District” as the main region to apply for Preserving Legacies project, and we became a member of the project this year. We receive the training from Preserving Legacies and gradually identify the cultural/historical values and attributes of Shenkeng District. During the process of interaction and communication with the communities in Shenkeng, we find out the stakeholders and rightsholders who are closely related to the cultural conservation and development in Shenkeng.
    Climate change is one of the key points that we participate in Preserving Legacies project. The phenomena of climate change become more and more obvious, and it is potential to be the threat and damage our cultural heritage. After exploring possible hazards, facing the irreversible climate change, what we can do next are considering applicable strategies to adapt the changes or mitigating potential influences and harm based on the environmental conditions of Shenkeng. This is also what we strive to do and promote in our next stage.

Reference:
Preserving Legacies – https://www.heritageadapts.org/
ICOMOS - The Preserving Legacies Project: Year One Review and Call for New Partners/Sites
https://www.icomos.org/en/focus/climate-change/133856-the-preserving-legacies-project-year-one-review-and-call-for-new-partners-sites

New Taipei City World Heritage Education Lecture Series

(1) Background of the Event
    "World Heritage" refers to sites, monuments, groups of buildings, and natural environments that are inscribed on the UNESCO list for their outstanding universal value. These represent the highest level of global cultural heritage preservation and embody all of humanity's cultural achievements. Although our nation is not a member of the United Nations, the Ministry of Culture has been actively promoting related initiatives since 2002. To date, 18 sites in Taiwan have been selected as "Potential World Heritage Sites," with the aim of enhancing the preservation of domestic cultural assets according to international standards.
    New Taipei City is home to three potential World Heritage sites: Fort Santo Domingo and its surrounding historical buildings, the Shuei-Jin-Jiou Mining Sites, and the Lo-sheng Sanatorium. Although Shenkeng is not included among these potential sites, its tea and tea culture are clearly connected to the world through the water systems of the Jingmei River, Xindian River, and Tamsui River. In 2024, the Shenkeng USR project, entitled "Co-creating a Sustainable and Resilient Cultural Community in Shenkeng: A Multifaceted Value Enhancement Initiative," was chosen for the ICOMOS Preserving Legacies Project. This selection represents substantial international acknowledgment of Shenkeng's cultural significance.
    The New Taipei City Government has arranged various educational lectures and workshops to promote possible World Heritage sites in New Taipei City. These meetings convene international experts and local stakeholders from historic sites to participate in conceptual training and substantive discussions regarding the preservation of World historic sites and prospective World Heritage sites in Taiwan. The objective is to enhance public consciousness regarding heritage conservation. The 2024 lecture series is specifically arranged in Shenkeng and will showcase specialists from AusHeritage, an Australian heritage group that has conducted several visits to Taiwan and entered into a memorandum of cooperation with the Bureau of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture. These specialists will disseminate contemporary worldwide preservation approaches and examine the prospective World Heritage sites of New Taipei City in accordance with global trends in World Heritage protection.

(2) Executing Units

Organizing Unit: New Taipei City Government Cultural Affairs Bureau

Guiding Unit: Bureau of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture

Executing Unit: China University of Technology

Co-organizing Units:

AusHeritage, Shenkeng District Office,

Shenkeng Farmers' Association,

The New Taipei City Parent-Teacher Association (Wenshan General Association),

Shenkeng Junior High School,

Shenkeng Elementary School,

New Taipei City Union of Commerce and Industry Districts DevelopmentAssociation,

Shenkeng Commerce and Industry Districts Development Association,

Cheng Fu-Tien Culture & Education Foundation,

Shenkeng Humanities and Cultures Studio,

Cultural Heritage Protection Association of the Republic of China

(3) Event Date

June 16, 2024 (Sunday), 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

(4) Event Venue

The Shenkeng Ting Government Building
(No. 55 Shenkeng Street, Shenkeng District, New Taipei City)

一、守護遺產計畫（Preserving Legacies）

     近年來，「氣候變遷」（Climate change）對環境造成的影響與危害越來越明顯，其影響範圍也不限於個人或是單一國家，而是全世界必須共同面對與承擔的議題。守護文化資產，除了日常的管理維護與建立防範災害的應變體系之外，也必須對持續的、新的趨勢與環境變化做出回應，而「氣候變遷」正是環境變化的一個極明顯的案例。不論是文化遺產或自然遺產，都無法避免氣候變遷帶來的影響與傷害，所以「氣候變遷」也成為守護文化遺產時不得不面對並積極處理的議題。

     「守護遺產計畫」（Preserving Legacies）即是在這樣的背景與前提下成立的活動計畫：「守護遺產計畫」自2023年年初開辦，由國際文化紀念物與歷史場所委員會（ICOMOS）和國家地理學會（National Geographic Society）合作，接受世界各地遺產地的申請，以一系列的課程與實際操作的模式，帶領遺產地的管理人自一步步的操作中，重新發現各個遺產地中蘊藏的豐富價值，並藉由操作相關的氣候變遷模擬模組，預先設想可能發生的氣候災害（climate hazard），以及對文化資產的價值可能造成的風險進行評估，以此為根據事先計畫保護文化資產的策略、方針，並做出實際的行動。

     「守護遺產計畫」相較於其他文化資產對抗氣候變遷的策略而言，有另一項強調的重點在於「重視遺產地當地原生住民的智慧與知識體系（Indigenous knowledge）」。「守護遺產計畫」相信，世界各地各個地方的原生和在地住民面對生活的環境，千百年來觀察四季的變化與輪轉，逐步地發展、歸納出一套獨特的、反映他們與所處的環境互動的生活模式與規律，而他們面對氣候變遷帶來的環境變化，也發展出一套「因應的方法」，以減輕這些環境的變化對他們、他們的生活、他們的社群、他們的傳統帶來的衝擊。而這些「因應的方法」反映出的是各地原生族群的智慧與知識體系；與世界各國的意見領袖共同討論出的法律、綱領、共識、合約相比，對於處理氣候變遷的議題而言有著相同的重要性與參考價值。

     在課程與訓練進行的同時，「守護遺產計畫」另外與Climate Heritage Network共同組織了Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance（簡稱HACA）計畫。HACA是一個關於實踐的線上社群，廣邀對氣候變遷、相關數據監測、模組發展與測試…等議題有興趣與涉獵的學者加入，藉由各個成員在社群中提出世界各地的相關案例、鼓勵成員對各個案例提出對策與建議、結果分享等等的方式，期望能建立世界通用的應用指標（indicator），來對氣候變遷帶來的環境變化進行有效的監測與分析，並能及時做出因應的措施以保護文化資產。不論是Preserving Legacies或是HACA，都以「預計於2025年11月在巴西舉辦的第30屆聯合國氣候大會（COP30）會議中提出相關的成果報告」為目標，而這一系列關於氣候變遷，以及氣候變遷對文化資產造成影響的關注的行動，都是在對2015年訂定的巴黎協定關於氣候變遷的呼籲做出回應與響應。

     中國科技大學位於臺北市文山區，在地理位置上緊鄰新北市深坑區，在過去的行政區劃中更是被同樣劃歸在「大文山區」的範圍裡，因而對深坑的發展時有關注。今（2024）年中國科技大學以「Shenkeng District, Chinese Taipei」的名義成為「守護遺產計畫」Preserving Legacies新的遺產地夥伴，和其他來自法國、加拿大、不丹、澳洲、愛爾蘭、巴西等地的遺產地學者共同交流，接受最新的因應氣候變遷的國際趨勢與知識。藉由參與「守護遺產計畫」和HACA社群，我們不僅自國際夥伴的經驗中學習，也把深坑帶到國際友人的眼前；並期待日後能邀請這些國外學者親自到深坑來進行學術研討，以及體會深坑的文化內涵。

2024年「守護遺產計畫」Preserving Legacies 獲選遺產地名單：
• Kherlen River Basin, Mongolia
• Shenkeng District, Chinese Taipei
• Nelson’s Dockyard National Park, Antigua and Barbuda
• Champagne Hillside, Houses, and Cellars, France
• Kerkennah Island, Tunisia
• Rideau Canal, Canada
• Guató Barra do São Lourenço Indigenous community, Brazil
• Bahia's Candomblé Terreiro, Brazil
• Mapoon Mission and Burial Mounds, Australia
• La Vieille Ville Historique d’Agadez, Niger
• Rock of Cashel, Ireland

（詳情請閱覽ICOMOS網站中提及Preserving Legacies及深坑入選新年度遺產地案例之網頁：https://www.icomos.org/en/focus/climate-change/139876-preserving-legacies-adds-11-new-heritage-sites-to-global-climate-adaptation-programme）。

「守護遺產計畫」官網：https://www.heritageadapts.org/
ICOMOS英文版官網：https://www.icomos.org/en
Heritage Adapts to Climate Alliance（HACA）簡介：https://www.heritageadapts.org/post/preserving-legacies-launches-heritage-adapts-to-climate-alliance

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