Long Heritage
Rooted Heritage combines documentary production with an open digital repository to make invisible or fading oral traditions visible again. Four traditions—each framed by the metaphors of earth, water, fire, air—are recorded on site in four Anatolian cities through interviews with their last living bearers, capturing personal narratives alongside each tradition’s origins, meanings, and transformations via video, photography, and oral-history logs. Curated outputs are published in a publicly accessible digital archive, building a sustainable resource for researchers and the wider public.
Tangible deliverables include a four-episode documentary series and a growing online archive. Over time, the model scales to new cities and practices while supporting UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage processes through rigorous documentation and increased visibility.