{"id":36349,"date":"2023-05-03T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36349"},"modified":"2023-05-03T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:47:20","slug":"heritage-declares-newsletter-heritage-the-climate-crisis-and-ukcr-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36349","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Declares Newsletter:\u00a0 Heritage the Climate Crisis.., and UKCR update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Heritage Declares has issued it April Newsletter with topics covering all the latest news, including Heritage Declares at Futurebuild and an update signpost on the The\u00a0 UK Climate Resilience Programme<\/a> (UKCR).<\/h3>\n

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\u2026 The programme was a multi and interdisciplinary effort that funded over sixty projects<\/a>\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Heritage Declares writes:<\/p>\n

UK Climate Resilience Final Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0UK Climate Resilience Programme<\/a>\u00a0(UKCR) was a four year project running from 2018 that sought to quantify risks from climate change, build climate resilience for the UK and produce outputs to support decision making.<\/p>\n

The programme was a multi and interdisciplinary effort that funded over\u00a0sixty projects<\/a>\u00a0covering a broad range of \u00a0topics. The Programme\u2019s Final Conference was held on 8th<\/sup>\u00a0and 9th<\/sup>\u00a0of March at the Wellcome Collection in London.<\/p>\n

Cultural heritage formed a significant proportion of the projects funded by the UK Climate Resilience Programme and this was reflected over the two days of the conference.<\/p>\n

Day 1<\/a>\u00a0looked at Research Advancements, with the afternoon session moderated by Professor Nick Pidgeon of Cardiff University.<\/p>\n

This included presentations from Mike Davies\u2019 project\u00a0Climacare<\/a>\u00a0which established, for example, that the construction age of care home buildings was critical in moderating overheating exposure due to thermal mass. Pre 1930\u2019s buildings, for example, were significantly less likely to overheat.<\/p>\n

Clandage<\/a>\u00a0consisted of 3 case studies based in Cumbria, Staffordshire and the Outer Hebridies and evaluated how community resilience could be built through cultural, social and technological adaptations facilitated by storytelling, craft and poetry workshops, oral history, archival research and interviews.<\/p>\n

Climate Resilient Church Buildings<\/a>\u00a0was presented by a University of Manchester researcher (Chris Walsh) embedded within the Church of England. He reported that C. of E. has an ambitious net zero programme (net zero by 2030). They understand that waiting to repair building fabric in response to climatic impacts is likely to be 8.7 times more expensive than if addressed beforehand. The speaker revealed that their estate consists of c. 16,000 buildings, 78% are listed (many Grade I) and that 5,500 of their buildings are on Historic England\u2019s \u2018At Risk\u2019 register.<\/p>\n

The C. Of E. is in a unique position as their churches are deeply connected to isolated rural communities and the organisation is a huge repository of knowledge due to its long working relationship with heritage professionals already engaged with their buildings. Their churches are already helping communities to adapt to the impacts of climate change. St Lawrence Priory in Snaith, for example, provided refuge for 150 people for three weeks (food, shelter, clothing) following the Snaith flood of 2019.<\/p>\n

Day 2<\/a>\u00a0looked at Implications for Practice & Policy.<\/p>\n

Generally it was acknowledged that the arts and cultural heritage had a huge role in helping communities make sense of complex ideas and what resilience to climactic impacts looks (and has looked) like. Central to this is the importance of Place, how places change, how they are relatable\/comparable especially with regard to vulnerability and (in)equality.<\/p>\n

Looking to the future, UKCR seemed keen to know how best to relate to campaign groups, feeling that many involved in their organisation cannot be seen to be involved with XR or Just Stop Oil (whose aims are solely mitigatory) however much they sympathise with their point of view.<\/p>\n

They identified gaps in research and implementation, wanting to understand the narrative of what an adaptive UK will look like and how to better include the needs of communities and individuals in policy.<\/p>\n

Read more….<\/a><\/p>\n

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The April Newsletter headings include:<\/p>\n