探花精选 Graduate School Center for the Conservation of Cultural Property and Environment in the Tropics (USTGS CCCPET) Director Dr. Eric B. Zerrudo, presented his research on the Philippine intangible cultural heritage during the virtual Human, Nature, and Intangible Cultural Heritage 2020 World Forum for Intangible Cultural Heritage held from September 23 to 25, 2020.
Zerrudo鈥檚 paper was titled 鈥淧ULSO: Philippine Intangible Cultural Heritage in Times of COVID 19 Pandemic.鈥�
Taking an excerpt from the 2003 Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Convention, Zerrudo shared that 鈥渋ntangible cultural heritage is the community鈥檚 response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history鈥� and ICH is about people鈥檚 values, particularly people鈥檚 harmonious relations with nature.鈥� He also explained that 鈥榩耻濒蝉辞鈥� is a term for pulse in the local language.
ICH is a meaning-making activity of man to make sense of nature, environment, society, and history. ICH is man鈥檚 interaction based on the heartbeat of nature and the universe.
Citing renowned Filipino anthropologist F. Landa Jocano, Zerrudo stressed that 鈥渓ife is conceived by people in harmony with nature, the pulse is its expression. Anything which tends to interfere with this flow of harmony upsets the pulsebeat.鈥�
The forum鈥檚 main objective is to discuss the meaning and role of the intangible cultural heritage and how it can contribute to environmental sustainability.
The forum was hosted by Korea鈥檚 National Intangible Heritage Center and International Information and Networking Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Regions under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
