Digital Workflows for the Conservation of Heritage Places in a Climate Emergency:Opportunities and Challenges
Digital technologies have been widely used in the field of heritage.However,in the context of global climate change,how digital technology will play a role in heritage and what direction efforts should be made in developing its technology to adapt to climate change are worthy of discussion."It is just the beginning",said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a state-ment on July's record global temperatures."The era of global warming has ended;the era of global boiling has arrived.(Guterres,2023)"Guterres's warning,though hyperbolic,is not excessive in terms of the urgency of global climate change.The heritage field has long recognized climate change's negative impact on heritage.However,it has also recognized that heritage can be a positive fac-tor in mitigating and adapting to climate change in human society.This contribution offers insights into opportunities and challenges that digital workflows offer heritage places to address the growing impacts of climate change and the need for more diverse approaches to contribute to setting priorities for climate adapta-tion,considering heritage conservation as a driver for sustainable development and climate mitigation.Digital technologies integrate various tools and methods for collecting,analyzing,and interpreting data from heritage places.It can be instrumental in addressing climate change in multiple ways.The paper explores the role of digital technologies in climate emergency,using the outline of four emerging issues in the educa-tion of cultural heritage emerging professionals in climate action raised by JT-HECA webinar held at Carleton University in 2022."Climate impacts and heritage vulnerability",which deals with adaptation planning,technologies can highly contribute to under-standing impacts and how to assess them.Digital technology can play a key role in reducing disaster risk and helping heritage sites respond quickly in the face of disasters.In"Building/Urban Adaptation and Resilience",the recording of the condition of the built environment is very important for climate mitigation.Digital technologies can assist heritage sites in risk assessment and monitoring.Another critical use of technology is understanding historic buildings'embodied carbon calculations to justify investing in rehabilita-tion and adaptive reuse rather than demolishing existing infrastructure.On the"Materials/resources,reuse,and equity",reuse of the existing is at the heart of heritage practices,but strategies for both climate mitigation and adaptation draw attention to the broader built legacies of human cultures,including impacts of extractive industries embodied in the materials of the buildings reused by adaptation.In terms of"Social justice,Indigenous knowledge,and governance",digital technologies can help heritage sites increase public en-gagement and awareness and contribute to the heritage of their culture and values.Climate change poses significant risks to heritage sites worldwide,threatening their very existence and the history they hold,and there is a consensus across the heritage community to take positive action against climate change.In this process,digital technology can help heritage sites improve their heritage records,enhance their capacity to respond to disasters,facilitate their assessment and decision-making process,and expand public participation in heritage sites'cultural inheritance.At the same time,digital technology also needs to improve and adapt to changes in demand in terms of technology popularization,cost reduction efficiency improvement and technology adaptation.
digital technologiesheritage recordingplanned conservationheritage places protectionclimate actionclimate emergency
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