Communities and Heritage
What is heritage without the Communities that produced it, cares for it and keeps it alive and unique? What dynamics arise between communities and their heritage or between foreign communities and local heritage? What effect and economic impact does heritage have on a community?
The fourth annual The World in Florence – International Festival of the Diversity of Cultural Expression (#TWIF2024) will take place both in person at the Auditorium al Duomo in Florence and online from 11 to 13 November 2024 and will offer a range of opportunities for meetings and reflections on the complexity of heritage relationships, which have sometimes become – or been made – difficult, been unacknowledged or even been destroyed by conflict or climate change. Whatever their history, these are identity issues that shape people’s relationships with their respective communities, with foreign communities, with migrants or travellers, with the natural environment and with the cultural products of the past.
The identity of places is shaped by a set of heritage elements, both cultural and natural, that the local community knows, uses and experiences daily. These relationships, in the global context, can take on diverse facets. According to the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), communities are the core of intangible heritage and indeed in many cases are themselves the subject of safeguarding because they represent the values, knowledge and expression of the intangible heritage of a place. In addition to producing intangible cultural heritage, communities have an important relationship with natural heritage, whose safe custody creates a fundamental balance of reciprocal and symbiotic survival. Finally, tangible cultural heritage, which has been generated by a specific community in a given historical period, is handed down through time by communities who have conveyed it to us in the present day.
The Festival is a place of international encounters between realities that rarely find an opportunity for exchange – from the professional world, the academic world and the world of institutions. For each participant, it is an opportunity for discussion and presentation of their own cultural expression and a chance to engage with others on a global level.
THEMATIC SESSIONS
The theme "Communities and Heritage" will be addressed from 4 different perspectives (focus), with the intervention of specialists in their respective fields.
1) LOCAL COMMUNITIES
How communities live with and relate to their local heritage in all its forms (cultural – both tangible and intangible – and natural). They may live with attachment and pride or see it as an obstacle in daily life, they may value it or be unable to recognize it, etc.
2) FOREIGN COMMUNITIES
How non-natives relate to the heritage of the territory they find themselves in. The phenomena of conscious or mass tourism and that of migrants who, with more or less difficulty, experience a process of integration and contamination with the local culture.
3) ACCESS
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
Update 25 Sept. 2024Different approaches to access: cases of enhancement of minor sites, cases of limited or closed number access, up to integral protection (off-limits areas). Cases of digital enjoyment with augmented reality and “Talking Places”.
4) ECONOMIC IMPACTS
Hospitality, craftsmanship, and other forms of economic return connected to local heritage.
THE FESTIVAL WELCOMES DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF PARTICIPANTS
● Universities, academies and higher education institutions, with groups of students guided by a tutor
● Local public administrations and entities dedicated to local cultural and tourist development
● Private organisations in the field, such as associations, museums, foundations and cooperatives, engaged in the protection and promotion of cultural and natural heritage
● Companies interested in promoting projects for the enhancement of natural and cultural heritage
● Anyone who is interested in intercultural dialogue, cultural tourism or learning about and safeguarding heritage or who is simply curious to discover the cultures of the world
Fonte: Centro Associazioni culturali fiorentine
The fourth annual The World in Florence – International Festival of the Diversity of Cultural Expression (#TWIF2024) will take place both in person at the Auditorium al Duomo in Florence and online from 11 to 13 November 2024 and will offer a range of opportunities for meetings and reflections on the complexity of heritage relationships, which have sometimes become – or been made – difficult, been unacknowledged or even been destroyed by conflict or climate change. Whatever their history, these are identity issues that shape people’s relationships with their respective communities, with foreign communities, with migrants or travellers, with the natural environment and with the cultural products of the past.
The identity of places is shaped by a set of heritage elements, both cultural and natural, that the local community knows, uses and experiences daily. These relationships, in the global context, can take on diverse facets. According to the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), communities are the core of intangible heritage and indeed in many cases are themselves the subject of safeguarding because they represent the values, knowledge and expression of the intangible heritage of a place. In addition to producing intangible cultural heritage, communities have an important relationship with natural heritage, whose safe custody creates a fundamental balance of reciprocal and symbiotic survival. Finally, tangible cultural heritage, which has been generated by a specific community in a given historical period, is handed down through time by communities who have conveyed it to us in the present day.
The Festival is a place of international encounters between realities that rarely find an opportunity for exchange – from the professional world, the academic world and the world of institutions. For each participant, it is an opportunity for discussion and presentation of their own cultural expression and a chance to engage with others on a global level.
THEMATIC SESSIONS
The theme "Communities and Heritage" will be addressed from 4 different perspectives (focus), with the intervention of specialists in their respective fields.
1) LOCAL COMMUNITIES
How communities live with and relate to their local heritage in all its forms (cultural – both tangible and intangible – and natural). They may live with attachment and pride or see it as an obstacle in daily life, they may value it or be unable to recognize it, etc.
2) FOREIGN COMMUNITIES
How non-natives relate to the heritage of the territory they find themselves in. The phenomena of conscious or mass tourism and that of migrants who, with more or less difficulty, experience a process of integration and contamination with the local culture.
3) ACCESS
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
Update 25 Sept. 2024Different approaches to access: cases of enhancement of minor sites, cases of limited or closed number access, up to integral protection (off-limits areas). Cases of digital enjoyment with augmented reality and “Talking Places”.
4) ECONOMIC IMPACTS
Hospitality, craftsmanship, and other forms of economic return connected to local heritage.
THE FESTIVAL WELCOMES DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF PARTICIPANTS
● Universities, academies and higher education institutions, with groups of students guided by a tutor
● Local public administrations and entities dedicated to local cultural and tourist development
● Private organisations in the field, such as associations, museums, foundations and cooperatives, engaged in the protection and promotion of cultural and natural heritage
● Companies interested in promoting projects for the enhancement of natural and cultural heritage
● Anyone who is interested in intercultural dialogue, cultural tourism or learning about and safeguarding heritage or who is simply curious to discover the cultures of the world
Fonte: Centro Associazioni culturali fiorentine
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