(Image: Public Domain review) All of these can be considered part of what UNESCO describes as the ‘intangible cultural heritage’ of wetlands – including local traditions and beliefs, songs and stories, art and crafts. If you’re interested in peatlands and wetlands please join us on twitter on Wednesday the 10th February (12-1pm in UK and Ireland, 1-2pm in the Netherlands) to discuss these and other issues in the next Wetland Heritage twitter chat. You don’t have to have a professional role in peatlands and wetlands to join the chat, this is an opportunity for anyone who’s interested in these landscapes to be part of the conversation, so please join us and make your voice heard. If you’ve not joined a twitter chat before it’s a great opportunity to make connections, learn about work that’s going on in this area and share your ideas and experiences. If you’re interested in this topic you may enjoy some recent publications by the WetFutures teams:
A twitter chat is simply a collaborative online conversation organised around a central theme or topic. For this #WetlandHeritageChat the topic will be wetland art, crafts and folklore. You just need to be logged in to twitter and use the search function to find the hashtag #WetlandHeritageChat. Over the course of the hour, we’ll prompt the discussion with a series of questions (numbered Q1, Q2, Q3 etc) and encourage you to respond by joining the conversation; tweeting your response/reflections/comments using the #WetlandHeritageChat hashtag, and A1, A2, A3, etc to indicate which question you’re responding to. You don’t have to respond to the questions, but your comments, questions and reflections will be valued if you do. If you follow our twitter account (@WetFutures) you’ll find it easier to keep track of the questions. If you can’t join the twitter chat as it happens, you can still see the discussion (and add your responses) afterwards using the #WetlandHeritageChat hashtag. We’re also planning to archive the chat and share it here. Join us! Why not block the date in your diary and join us over lunch on the 10th February (12-1pm in UK and Ireland, 1-2pm in the Netherlands)? We’d love to read your contributions to the #WetlandHeritageChat and your thoughts on wetland art, crafts and folklore!
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At the end of last year the WetFutures teams looked back over 2020 and shared some highlights from their work in the Netherlands, UK and Ireland as a festive countdown via twitter. Here are another 8 highlights in case you missed them, along with links to where you can find more information. 9. Why not take a virtual holiday and view the Wetfutures Ireland team’s ‘Guide to Peatland Heritage in Ireland’ as part of National Heritage week https://www.heritageweek.ie/projects/the-nations-staycation-a-guide-to-peatland-archaeology-in-ireland 10. Another insight from Wetfutures Netherlands team’s work. You can find out more about their research via the paper here https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00251-7  11. Some great integrated mapping work from the Wetfutures Netherlands team  12. Why not spend some time thinking about how we care for wetlands and their cultural heritage https://wakelet.com/wake/pP-9V1tFro9GA1Q3467h9 13. A wider impact from the Wetfutures Ireland team who responded to the Special Rapporteur (UN) in the field of cultural rights in May. You can read their response toward the bottom of this page: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/ClimateChange.aspx 14. These maps from the Wetfutures Netherlands team demonstrate the value heritage research offers for planning. You can read more about this work here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00251-7  15. Hot off the press, we invite you to read the WetFutures UK open access paper on peatlands folklore and archaeology https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2020.1815293
16. Why not watch Wetfutures Ireland’s presentation from @repeatearth Global Festival - ‘RE-gendering the bog’ #WetlandHeritageChat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEf1_osames&feature=youtu.be Do join in the twitter conversation by following #WetlandHeritageChat or leave a comment in the box below. At the end of last year the WetFutures teams looked back over 2020 and shared some highlights from their work in the Netherlands, UK and Ireland as a festive countdown via twitter. In case you missed it, here are the first 8 highlights and links to where you can find out more. 1. Why not listen to WetFutures UK introduce the importance of tangible and intangible heritage of peatlands https://www.moorsforthefuture.org.uk/the-latest/recent-news/moorlife-2020/the-heritage-of-peatlands-webinar 2. Insight from the WetFutures Netherlands team about their work in Schokland  3. Why not watch the contribution from WetFutures Ireland team to the Landscape Research group’s event ‘A Future of Our Own Making’ https://lex.landscaperesearch.org/collections/lrg-events 4. Revisit the first #WetlandHeritageChat on wetland archaeology https://wakelet.com/wake/CHcRe2v6OWZJPx6Al_nfn 5. Another insight from the work of WetFutures Netherlands  6. Revisit the virtual presentation given by the Wetfutures team at the IUCN Peatlands Programme Annual Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFnY_qhaqE&feature=youtu.be 7. Read how the WetFutures Ireland team explore connections between literature, archaeology and gender through the ‘bog poems’ of Seamus Heaney https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344352289_Heaney's_Hauntings_Archaeology_Poetry_and_the_'Gendered_Bog' 8. More insight from the WetFutures Netherlands team about their work in Schokland  |
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