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Category: Research
Casting out the arctic research net – in the field with Touch in Tromsø
Touch TD take a closer look at research around the challenges faced when balancing aquaculture, fisheries and tourism in Arctic Norway
Retaining jobs – sustaining communities in the westfjords of Iceland
The ArcticHubs project team in the remote Westfjords corner of Iceland, focus applied research into how rural communities may be more effectively sustained
Everyday oral histories – what makes Digbeth, Digbeth?
This brief article reflects upon a recent experience Touch TD had gathering oral histories from around the industrial heritage heartland of Birmingham. It outlines how the collecting of such experiences and memories can help to map out not only a sense of place, but additionally highlight some of the processes that can lead to such […]
Community based destination management, Turkey
The project contributed to developing a strategy and the tools for the practical implementation of sustainable community based destination management in Kemaliye, Turkey.
Expanding Lake Ohrid UNESCO WHS
The project was designed to address the expansion of the mixed natural and cultural heritage around Lake Ohrid region shared between Albania and North Macedonia. It strengthened trans-boundary cooperaion over the region’s cultural and natural heritage, helping recognize and profile the trans-boundary area by asesessing its values and sustainable development opportunies.
Historic England’s future engagement with ICH
This project was a collaboration between WSP Cultural Heritage & Archaeology and Touch TD involving interviews and desk research through the offices of Historic England. The purpose of the project was to advise Historic England on how it can engage most appropriately and effectively in the development of thinking and activity related to Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)
Buzludzha monument: sustainable cultural tourism plan
Through ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee (ICTC), the project aimed to develop a sustainable cultural tourism plan to support destination development at the Buzludzha Monument in central Bulgaria. The monument is a dissonant aspect of cultural heritage that aims to align with the other layers of the tourism offer developed in the municipality of Kazanlak.
ArcticHubs
A #H2020 multi-disciplinary international collaboration to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to address challenges faced in the Arctic.