Civil Society and Heritage 2010

Monday 23 March

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Dag Myklebust (Directorate for Cultural Heritage, Norway)
From Oslo to Mechelen – via Portoroz
Annick Schramme (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Civil society action in the field of heritage in Europe: strengths and weaknesses
Marc Jacobs (FARO. Flemish Interface for Cultural Heritage)
The Republic of Heritage. Citizenship, sustainable formal and informal networks and cultural dynamics
Simon Murray (National Trust, UK)
The National Trust’s new approach to Heritage Care through Active Citizenship

WORKSHOPS

Workshop I: The local connection – Heritage, place & communities (chair: Philip A. Turner)

Philip A. Turner (ECOVAST – European Council for the Village and Small Town)
Citizen engagement in the Heritage and future of Small Towns and Landscapes
Paul Van Schoors (vzw Roosendael, Belgium)
An integral, durable and socially integrated approach: the Roosendael domain
Anna Achiola (Medieval Rose Association, Greece)
Historic Revivals and their Influence on Local Communities – Showcasing the Medieval Festival of Rhodes
Alexandra Kapetanovic & Snezana Pejovic (Montenegro)
Activities of NGOs in the field of cultural heritage in Montenegro: EXPEDITIO & NOTAR
Stephen Harrison (Manx National Heritage)
The Story of Mann – an expression of local, national and international value for heritage identity
David Baxter (Built Heritage Conservation Training Centre, Banffy Castle Bontida) & Csilla Hegedus (Transylvania Trust, Romania)
Community building through revitalising cultural heritage. Case Study: Transylvania Trust, Romania
Dirk Sturtewagen & Joris Capenberghs (Centrum Waerbeke, Belgium)
Communities of Practice around Silence, Quiet and Open Space in Flanders
Gerhard Ermischer (Spessart Projekt, Germany)
Cultural landscape as place for civil society engagement in heritage management

Workshop II: The people connection – Heritage & volunteers (chair: Marc Jacobs)

Sara Crofts (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, UK)
Faith in Maintenance – Helping Volunteers Care for Historic Places of Worship
Holger Rescher (German Foundation for Monument Protection)
So that the past has a future – the German Foundation for Monument Protection
Ans van den Berg (Stichting Vrienden van de West Brabantse Waterlinie, Netherlands)
Restoration of historic defence lines originating from the eighty years war
Philipp Breidenbach (Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Kulturowa “Borussia” (culture community), Poland)
Between open-air museum and modern times
Pam Moore (TICCIH)
The Role of Volunteers from Civil Society in the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage of Europe
Liesbeth Thiers (CO7, Belgium)
‘Westhoek imag(in)es’: a regional image base made by volunteers
Tihana Stepinac Fabijanic (ECOVAST Croatia)
Restoring traditional buildings in Croatia
Gergely Palla (The Living Tradition Foundation, Hungary)
Civil organisations in the Hungarian folk culture

Workshop III: The trans-border connection – Heritage & networks (chair: Angus Fowler)

Angus Fowler (Germany)
Transnational Networks
Joan Munt & Adriaan Linters (EFAITH)
EFAITH: a network of European Industrial and Technical Associations
Pieter Caljé (Grensschap Albertkanaal, Netherlands-Belgium)
Grensschap Albertkanaal: a gaze protecting landscape values and creating cross border unity
Raphaël Souchier (ADD Europe, France)
Heritage Care through Active Citizenship: what does it take?
Tijl Vereenooghe (Belgium)
Towards an inventory of heritage organisations in Europe
Olivier Muzellec (Le Non Lieu, Roubaix)
Des ‘totems roubaisiens’ aux ‘beffrois du travail/belforten van de arbeid’
Anne-Sophie Buffat (Réseau Art Nouveau Network)
Réseau Art Nouveau Network: increasing civil society awareness of Art Nouveau heritage
Aleksandra Kapetanovic
South-East Europe Heritage Network (SEE Heritage)
Piret Noorhani (Baltic Heritage Network, Estonia)
Networking the Cultural Heritage of the Baltic Diaspora
Orane Proisy (Ministère de la Culture, France)
HEREIN – Le Réseau européen du patrimoine

Workshop IV: The transmission of cultural heritage: intangible heritage and heritage education (chairs: Renaud Albasini & Marianna Hajdukiewicz)

Pierre-Julien Canonne (ANCT Gannat, France)
Masques et Mascarades – Faces multiples d’Europe
Cyrill Renz (CIOFF Suisse)
Système d’Inventaire des expressions traditionnelles
CIOFF – Cultural Commission
Revitalisation des jeux traditionnels
Renaud Albasini (CIOFF)
Mutra Fondation for traditional music – Three countries one culture
Marianna Hajdukiewicz (Center for Citizenship Education, Poland):
Traces of the Past – Education for the Future
Darko Babic & Zeljka Miklosevic (University of Zagreb / Wind Rose Association, Croatia)
Heritage literacy
Daniel Pletinckx (Visual Dimension, Belgium)
The Future for our Past: ICT supports cultural heritage understanding
Karel Loeff (Netherlands)
Treasures of Amsterdam

Tuesday 24 March

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Hervé Glevarec (CNRS, France)
Le souci patrimonial amateur comme enracinement
Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović (Europa Nostra)
Building a structured dialogue between civil society and European decision makers
Kristin Kuutma (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Cultural Heritage and the Empowerment of Communities: Challenges of Representation and Politics
Daniel Thérond (Council of Europe – Directorate of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage)
Innovative approaches of the Faro Council of Europe Convention and shared responsibility for cultural heritage

WORKSHOPS

Workshop V: Call for action – Active citizenship in the field (chairs: Paul Van Schoors)

Judy Ling Wong (Black Environment Network)
Making (heritage) policy relevant for ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged groups
Aytekin Imranova (‘Protection of historic-cultural and natural heritage’ Public Control Committee, Azerbaijan)
Protection of historical-cultural and natural heritage in Azerbaijan and activities of NGOs
Elisabeth Seip (Fortidsminneforeningen, Norway)
Heritage Care and NGOs in a Changing Society
Karel Dendooven & Eva Van Hoye (Belgium)
Heritage NGOs in Flanders and the Flemish heritage policy

Workshop VI: Call for action – Active citizenship in the field (chairs: Rupert Strachwitz)

Bernhard Furrer (Switzerland)
L’ancrage des organisations volontaires dans la législation – un élément important pour leur perception par la société
Sandra Ferracuti (Simbdea, Italy)
Small, rebellious museums. Heritage awaiting a succession
Willem Heijbroek (Cultural Heritage Organization Heemschut, Netherlands)
Future listed buildings and ensembles from the reconstruction period (1940-1965) in the Netherlands
Peter Ressen & Luc Wolters (Oud Limburgse Schuttersfederatie, Belgium-Netherlands)
Push your government. The Old-Limburgian Schuttersfeast as intangible cultural heritage
Johan De Vriendt (Belgium)
Heritage Community Doel

Olivier Muzellec & Adriaan Linters – France/Belgium

Les cheminées des usines, notamment celles qui abondent dans notre région, ont une indéniable valeur emblématique. A Roubaix, en 2004, dans le cadre de l’opération « CHEMINÉES : TOTEMS ROUBAISIENS » (organisée par l’association : « LE NON-LIEU »), elles ont servi de support à l’hommage rendu aux ouvriers et ouvrières du textile.

Devant le succès rencontré auprès de la population par cette manifestation, et parce que la valeur symbolique de la cheminée d’usine est universelle et partagée, le Conseil Général du Nord a souhaité que la valorisation de la cheminée et son utilisation dans la commémoration du travail des Hommes, soient étendues à l’ensemble du département, et associées aux manifestations du 1er mai : ainsi, la cheminée du nord devient ‘BEFFROI DU TRAVAIL’.

En mai 2009 aura lieu la troisième édition des « Beffrois du Travail », qui associera le Nord, le Pas de Calais, la Flandre belge et, pour la première fois, la Catalogne.

L’objectif est d’étendre cette manifestation populaire et festive, alliant culture et patrimoine, à tous les territoires européens qui conservent ces témoins de l’ère industrielle et souhaitent les valoriser en leur attribuant une nouvelle fonctionnalité.

The factory chimney’s have no practical function today, but have a strong symbolic significance. This is why the region, with our association, propose to use them for the remembrance of working people, each 1st of may. Since 2008 Flanders joined the initiative and 1 May 2009 the third edition will include the French regions Nord and Pas de Calais, Flanders (Belgium) and Catalonia (Spain)

Dirk Sturtewagen & Joris Capenberghs – Centrum Waerbeke, Geraardsbergen, Belgium

The dynamism generated by the many activities focused on the experience and safeguarding of silence and tranquillity finally led to Centrum Waerbeke being awarded for the Flemish Culture Prize for Heritage in 2005. The advisory commission justified its choice with the following words: ‘Centrum Waerbeke is a superb illustration of what an extension of the common concept of heritage – tangible and intangible, material and immaterial – can potentially signify in Flanders. It is seeking not only to preserve, but to encourage reflection on and promote silence and related qualities in the physical and social environment in which we live. Centrum Waerbeke Centre wishes to fulfil a symbolic function for the whole of Flanders. By bringing to the surface (traditions of) silence and tranquillity in various disciplines and social sectors, it is also emphasizing the binding power of stillness.’

Centrum Waerbeke – a competence centre in the field of tranquillity, calm and open space – is operating from the Dender-Mark Tranquillity Area. In 2001 the municipal authorities of Galmaarden, Geraardsbergen and Ninove, the provincial authorities of East Flanders and Flemish Brabant and the Flemish Minister of the Environment and Agriculture signed a cooperation protocol, in which they committed to work together in the future to maintain the quality of silence and tranquillity in this border area in which the Pajottenland meets the Flemish Ardennes. A tranquillity area is ‘a high quality living, working and leisure place with an interesting symbolic and scientific value, requiring the active cooperation of private landowners, users and visitors alike’.

On the edge of the Tranquillity Area lies the Congoberg, a superbly undulating hilly, since 1976 protected landscape situated in the municipality of Galmaarden. The Congoberg retains a largely unspoiled rural character with distant views and contrasts between open arable land and pastures and abrupt rivulet valleys. In early 2003 it was selected by the Flemish Minister of Culture as the sole landscape in Flemish Brabant for a conservation ànd development plan. For this reason, a management committee of landowners, inhabitants and users – 50 in all! – and experts put together a landscape management plan for the next nine years (till 2012). For a cultural landscape to function as a community asset, joint consultation, constructive cooperation and the involvement of all parties concerned is a must.

Building on the growing cooperation between various Flemish cities and communities around tranquillity as heritage, Centrum Waerbeke launched in 2007 a digital platform, in which the various manifestations of stillness or tranquillity are opened up to a broad audience, including professionals and policymakers. The website is conceived and will in the near future be further developed as an inspiring ‘digital tranquillity area’, an open site and a democratic meeting-place for many different communities of practice with information and activities on silence and on tranquillity areas both in Flanders and abroad, on the environmental and cultural values of silence, on heritage, education, landscape care, accessibility… All kinds of activities and initiatives are announced. It is also a place for creativity, with space for literature, visual arts, personal testimonies, etc. Culture – and heritage in particular – is in constant inter-relation with other policy areas like health and wellness, the environment, town and country planning, agriculture, recreation and mobility. The connection with other potential silence areas can also provide the starting point for other inter-municipal cooperation initiatives. The Silence Portal Site [see: www.portaalvandestilte.be] seeks – literally and by praxis – to contribute, as an instrument, to a larger, multi-sense consciousness of the perception of silence and, with all sectors and actors involved, to increase the sense of inter-belonging that the quality of tranquillity, calm and open space creates.

Darko Babic & Zeljka Miklosevic – University of Zagreb / Wind Rose Association, Croatia

The heritage literacy is a desirable and expected outcome of the heritage based education process. It has foundation in the comprehension of literacy as a state of having knowledge or competences in an explicit field and in comprehension of the heritage as a collective capital of (any) community. In it uttermost form heritage literacy is a form of life-long learning, adapted to differences beneficiaries represent. Accordingly, it is obvious that heritage literacy falls much more into citizenship based education then any formal education process (although some part of it could be reached in latter too). The aim of the presentation is to explain the idea and main points of heritage literacy, its necessity and to present the possible outline of methodical heritage education.

The concept will be illustrated by two different projects: creating of cultural routes by secondary school kids (in clusters of pupils from different countries) and with on-going project located at Croatian ex-war area.