Trends
The Trends section features a curated collection of emerging trends related to each UNESCO domain of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Each trend illustrates how emerging technologies are fostering heritage safeguarding practices, including open challenges and calls to action for ecosystem stakeholders. Related projects and scholarly articles populate each trend, enabling users to further explore its dynamics through grounded applications.
Oral Traditions and Expressions
Performing Arts (available from April 2026)
Traditional Craftsmanship (available from October 2026)
Social Practices (available from April 2027)
Knowledge about the Universe (available from October 2027)
Oral Traditions and Expressions
Spoken forms of cultural transmission that include storytelling, folktales, songs, proverbs, and rituals, passed down through generations. Closely linked to local languages and dialects, they preserve collective memory, identity, and worldviews, often in communities where oral communication is the primary mode of heritage transmission.
Emerging Trends
AI-powered Translation Technologies for Low-Resource Languages
Language is the lifeblood of cultural identity, memory, and shared knowledge. As languages face accelerating endangerment worldwide, a clear emerging trend is the growing use of AI-powered translation technologies to safeguard, revitalize, and transmit oral traditions.
Digital Oral Storytelling
Podcasts are increasingly serving as accessible, participatory spaces where knowledge-holders, tradition-bearers, heritage experts, and community members share stories that document oral traditions, preserve languages, and foster intergenerational dialogue within and beyond their communities. The aim is to document, disseminate, and revitalize oral traditions and endangered languages, through community engagement and distributed knowledge platforms.
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