Shared programme method
Tell environmental change through lived experience.
Heritage Ecology Journeys brings together ecological memory, living landscapes, water-related heritage, transoceanic routes and community-based environmental storytelling. It connects cultural and natural heritage without reducing heritage to environment alone.
Ecological Storytelling is the shared method within that work. It starts with people’s relationships to land, water, trees, neighbourhoods and routes, then develops films, oral histories, personal videos, maps, photographs and digital stories that communities can use and share.
A meaningful environmental story records not only what is changing, but what that change means to the people who live with it.
Method aims
- Place community knowledge and lived experience at the centre.
- Connect environmental change to memory, identity and belonging.
- Use creative and digital forms without separating stories from their context.
- Return documentation in accessible forms that communities can use.
