Loss of cultural heritage in ancient Chilean highland valleys due to debris flow & floods
By Dana Bartelt
The report highlights findings from The Future Schools 2023 Chilean Expedition: “Climate Change Advocacy" program focusing on one of the lesser-known effects of climate change: the loss of ancient archeological pictographs that preserve depictions of the original people's value of their relationship with nature. Current dramatic climatic changes are leading to floods and landslides that cover the panels of petroglyphs damaging these cultural heritage sites that also affect an important economic activity of sustainable tourism of this village.
This report also includes journal notes and our students formats of advocacy, and , presenting their formats of advocacy (podcast, websites and projects).
For the full report .
Dana Bartelt
Dana Bartelt (BA Environmental Design, MA Visual Communication) is Director and founder of , developing innovative transdisciplinary programs based on environmental + cultural sustainability. Ms. Bartelt's background includes being a professor at Loyola University - New Orleans; founding Director of the Prague Institute, a branch of North Carolina State University; curator of several exhibitions including Art as Activist for the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service; and publisher of design articles in international journals. In 2019 Dana Bartelt started the program Climate Change Advocacy, leading a yearly expedition in Chile. The goal of the program is to enable participants to study and experience first hand the complex and interrelated issues of climate change and choose an advocacy format that suits their discipline.
Creative team:
- Manager: Francisco Martínez Olivares - TFS
Artist: Jaime Canales (Bachelor in Arts - Universidad de Chile; Art Teacher at Universidad Abierta de Recoleta)
Jaime Canales (Bachelor in Arts - Universidad de Chile; Art Teacher at Universidad Abierta de Recoleta)
- Poetry: Jaime Perales Castro - UAR
“Four Transhumantic Quipus” an art installation by the sculptor Jaime Perales Castro (UAR)
Seeking to rescue old forms of communication, the artists have displayed a tensile structure playing with material strength and color, as tight or loaded as weight or bright as culture does in adverse situations and social isolation.
Invited by the TFS as an initiative of visibility of environmentalist Chilean artists. is supervising their participation but trying to keep the artistic project with the creative process as free as possible.
An initiative by The Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists in cooperation with The Future School.
