Reinforcing Philippine Cultural Landscape Values through the Schools of Living Tradition (SLTs)

The Schools of Living Tradition (SLTs) program effectively preserves and reinvents cultural landscape values amid rapid modernization, demonstrating that traditional practices can adapt to contemporary changes. Initially established to safeguard intangible heritage like the Ifugao Hudhud chanting tradition, SLTs have successfully integrated environmental imagery into crafts and textiles, preserving associative landscapes through language, color, and motifs. However, shifts in food production and education are transforming this mimicry of the landscape into a nostalgic memory, highlighting both the resilience and vulnerability of cultural heritage in dynamic environments.

Zerrudo, E. B. (2022). Reinforcing Philippine Cultural Landscape Values through the Schools of Living Tradition (SLTs). The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific, 341–355. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003099994-25