Funded by the NLHF and delivered by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), Coasts in Mind (CiM) has been working with specific coastal communities around England to co-curate and map digital evidence of coastal and anthropogenic climate change. Using a specially designed online portal, CiM is preserving local knowledge, narratives of change and otherwise overlooked archival material, held in local and personal collections, in a way that can be downloaded as a dataset. In doing so, it is raising the profile of community heritage and its unique value in contributing to understandings of the effects of climate change, as well as for building resilience within the communities themselves.
This talk will introduce Coasts in Mind’s methodology on a general level, before demonstrating its Humap built Mapping Platform and presenting a case-study of recent regional activities from work on the Taw-Torridge Estuary in North Devon.
