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.
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.
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.
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.