Description
The presentation, Remixing Heritage to Imagine Future Sea-Level Rise Scenarios, delivered at the Europeana event on climate change education, outlined how cultural heritage collections can be used as active tools for climate learning through participatory design.Drawing on the EPIC-WE project, I presented the Cultural Game Jam Tides of Heritage, where students engaged with audiovisual archives (e.g., Open Beelden) to translate historical materials into speculative future scenarios of sea-level rise in the Netherlands. Through methods such as collage-making, worldbuilding kits, and scenario-based prompts, participants developed games that connected archival content with themes like water management, governance, and environmental change.
The presentation emphasized how heritage can function in multiple ways within learning processes: as material for remixing, as narrative infrastructure, or as immersive storytelling. It concluded with methodological reflections on facilitation, showing that careful staging, curation, sequencing, and iteration are key to meaningfully integrating heritage into creative and educational practices, rather than leaving it at a purely aesthetic level.
| Period | 8 Apr 2026 |
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| Event title | Climate change education through cultural heritage – Webinar |
| Event type | Conference |