Abstract:

During the Covid-19 period we live in, all individuals are forced to spend more time in their homes. It has been commonly encountered that this circumstance led individuals within families to pursue ways to spend more enjoyable and effective time together or alone, and in case of not being able to achieve this, individuals have been faced with intense stress. In this pursuit, it was seen that some elements found in the countries’ national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) might offer required potential that could be the answer to the pursuit in question and pandemic process can make a contribution to the sustainability of ICH elements within this dimension. In this context, the study aims to address the question of to what extent ICH national elements can play a role in domestic recreational activities during the pandemic process and uncover evidence for the statement that the pandemic process can contribute to the sustainability of ICH elements. The study was carried out by systematically compiling publications published throughout the pandemic in selected databases using the specified keywords. On top of that, several newspaper articles and news were analyzed. Considering the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the utmost constraint of the study is clearly the limited literature sources on the subject. Looking at obtained results under these circumstances, it is understood that national elements of ICH had a role in domestic recreational activities during the COVID-19 pandemic and that some national elements of ICH have become a current issue in society.

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