A three-year project dedicated to revitalising Endangered Intangible Heritage and Languages in Europe through digital innovation and community engagement.
A key issue in minority language and cultural heritage studies is the engagement of a variety of social actors who advance claims and participate in the sustainable management of a given linguistic and cultural heritage.
Additionally, the internal fragmentation endemic to marginalised contexts and recurrent intergenerational tensions at play within them are often overlooked.
Endangered intangible heritage and language (EIHL) communities hold unique traditional knowledge that supports a distinct sense of place-making and long traditions of cultural and heritage sustainability within some of the most vulnerable ecosystems.
As these communities are often marginalised and small in scale, their cultural heritage and its geographies are increasingly threatened.
REVIVE will identify and evaluate the role of digital innovation, creativity and interactive narratives in promoting understanding and engagement with EIHL, fostering social integration and cross-cultural fertilisation among marginalised European communities.
To do so, REVIVE will employ Extended Reality (XR) technology applied to immersive storytelling, while experimenting with new communication formats. The project will be based on two concrete case studies and cultural contexts: Cornish (UK), and Griko (Italy).
Communities’ participation and promotion of their heritage languages.
Development of a digital gallery about heritage of languages - a digital Scaffolder - an online repository and showcase of old material testimonies collected through years by locals and new XR digital narratives.
Experiencing and sustaining heritage of languages “with” and “inside” communities and local Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs).
Develop and validate a set of TOOLKITS for revitalising endangered languages in Europe.
Communities’ participation and promotion of their heritage languages
Development of a digital gallery about heritage of languages - a digital Scaffolder - an online repository and showcase of old material testimonies collected through years by locals and new XR digital narratives
Experiencing and sustaining heritage of languages “with” and “inside” communities and local Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs.
Develop and validate a set of TOOLKITS for revitalising endangered languages in Europe
Provide Intangible Cultural Heritage stakeholders with sustained digital tools.
Prepare policy recommendations for relevant decision makers.
Promote young people’s linguistic heritage (re)discovery and (re)connection.
