WHY

WATERSCAPES brings together, in the same practical and ideal framework, cultural heritage and environmental preservation. The main actors involved with the use of these pillar concepts are local communities, who maintain with heritage and environment the deepest relation, as these represent their familiar contexts, the premises and background for their sustainable living.

HOW
The core idea of the Summer School is learning in a cooperative way while sharing limited resources. In the context of the Anthropocene we learn that all fundamental resources are limited, and they need to be managed carefully. On the boat, water and space are limited resources, so the first didactic goal is their virtuous and careful sharing.

WHAT
The Summer School focuses on Water. Water is the connecting medium, the material link among communities and places, across history and today. Water belongs to everybody, it is alive in its motions and transformations. Water connects heritage sites and environmental emergencies. Water requires that any action is collective, shared, fluid, and global. The Water we intend is not only a natural resource, but also a socio-cultural construct. We decide to rename our methodology, from the classical fieldwork approach into a new water-work approach.

WHERE
Our boat is our working space. The living and working spac eshared by the community for a week invites a deep reflection on the sustainability of maritime life and draws attention to distributed responsibility .Our gaze is on theC roatian costs as perfect examples of Anthropocene complexity: here identity, history, shared territories and heritage clash against borderosv, erexploitation, regulations and scarcity.

The Summer School's strength is a deep interaction among academics, students and local communities who provides a rich data set to read the places in a commonly developed perspective.

CONTENTS

• Cultural Heritage: Venetian Heritage UNESCO Network; City of Zadar
• Local Knowledge and Citizens Engagement: Involvement of Local Stakeholders in Omišalj, Krk, Cres
• Sustainability in the Adriatic Sea: Marine Protected Area Telašćica Nature Park
• Dark Heritage and Political Identities: Balkan Fragmentation and Identity Issues in Goli Otok

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