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Five ways into heritage.

Stable clusters give CIE focus. Connecting programmes and projects bring them together in practice.

JusticePracticeLearning

One shared purpose, approached through justice, collaboration, ecology, imagination and learning.

CIE’s structure is deliberately connected. A cluster provides a stable home for knowledge and responsibility. Programmes create bridges across those clusters. Projects turn the work into specific actions, platforms, films, stories and methods.

This layered structure makes it easier to explore the work without losing the relationships between it.

Layer 01

Clusters

The five stable areas that organise CIE’s work.

01

Memory · ethics · recognition

Dhakira —
Heritage Justice

Contested pasts, silenced histories, recognition and the right to remember.

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02

Document · connect · share

HeritageLab

Collaborative and digital infrastructure for stories, Co-labs, methods and exchange.

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03

Land · water · living memory

Heritage Ecology
Journeys

Heritage, memory, landscapes and environmental change.

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04

Imagine · experiment · participate

Heritage Futures

Public experiments, installations and stories for future-making.

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05

Learn · translate · exchange

EduHub

Learning resources, teaching modules, toolkits and training.

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Layer 02

Connecting programmes

Programmes cross cluster boundaries and show how CIE works in practice.

DhakiraSeminar series

Right to Remember

Memory, contested heritage, silenced histories and public dialogue.

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Young people exploring a coastal heritage site in Galle, Sri Lanka
HeritageLabShared practice

Co-Labs

Community-led memory museums, map-based laboratories and shared heritage routes.

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Ecology journeysOcean

Global Ocean Heritage

Water-related heritage, local knowledge, ecology and community practice.

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Ecology journeysLandscapes

Heritage, Memory & Landscapes

Lived environments shaped by memory, routes, labour, migration, conflict, care and climate.

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Ecology journeysShared method

Ecological storytelling

Community narratives connecting environmental change with identity, memory and belonging.

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Layer 03

Active projects

Focused workstreams with named teams, outputs, timelines and opportunities to participate.

TreeRouted filming beneath palm trees
Ecology journeysActive

TreeRouted

Trees as living archives of memory, routes and care.

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Remembered view of the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza
Heritage FuturesGaza

Where My Street Remains

Place, disappearance, continuity, belonging and community storytelling.

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Ocean heritageIn development

MUCH Better

Locally grounded, context-sensitive and achievable better practice.

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Filming The Golden Harvest
Ecology journeysDocumentary

The Golden Harvest

Ancient olive trees, family, conflict and Mediterranean landscapes.

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Ocean heritageGaza

Documenting Gaza’s Archaeology

Rapid documentation for coastal and underwater heritage at risk.

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Historic view of the harbour of Surat
Ocean heritageResearch & data

Historic Shipping Networks

Routes, colonial histories and more than 56,000 shipping records.

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Historic gateway on Ilha de Moçambique
DhakiraResearch & publication

Re-emerging Pasts

Histories and heritage narratives returning to public debate.

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