Case-Based Teaching for Climate Heritage Education: Climate Adaptation of Historic Watermill Landscapes as a Case Study

This chapter demonstrates how heritage education connected to climate science and climate action is taught in formative education where students are guided to develop a holistic perspective toward the understanding of cultural heritage, its values, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity to tackle the impacts of climate change through case studies and stakeholder engagement. It presents two separate educational activities concentrating on climate adaptation of historic watermill landscapes in the Netherlands where different pedagogies are employed in a multi-disciplinary learning environment addressing higher education students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and with different skill sets. These two education activities demonstrate case-based, design-oriented pedagogies and teaching methods using built heritage as a tool for climate and heritage education. In both examples, design outputs are produced as a tool to demonstrate the pedagogical content even though not all of the involved students had prior design education or training.