FARO Communique #9.pdf

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2022-11 #9 FARO CONVENTION NETWORK
Image: E. Carroll
WHO BENEFITS FROM HERITAGE?
I arrived back from Tallinn where I took part in a Faro
Convention seminar (more below) organised by the
Culture Ministry in Estonia and Finland. The seminar was
about how we preserve heritage and who benefits from it
and we made an excursion to the Kalamaja
neighbourhood. Like Šančiai, it blossomed at the
beginning of the twentieth century, turned into a modern
industrial centre and home for factory workers.Kalamaja
means fish house but today it is known for its wooden
houses. The museum is the Community Museum, A village
in the midst of the city – stories of Kalamaja. From 1934,
the family of Hans Einberg, professor of mechanics at the

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Technical University, lived there. After the bombing and
burning of Tallinn in March 1944 the family escaped to
Sweden. The nationalised building became a packed
dwelling for seven families. In 1985, the building became
a museum for dolls and later dedicated to children. It
survived for decades until 2013. In 2021, after major
renovation, it reopened as a community museum to tell the
stories of Kalamaja district and run by the Tallinn City
Museum. I felt resonance to Šančiai and Kaunas – its floor
board, the herringbone parquet, and box windows. The
museum curators display the district story through six
lenses: people, artists, ancestors, children and even
animals; and donations from locals were collected.
Image: In the kitchen. E. Carroll
The garden area of the museum is such a relaxing social
space. The most memorably quality of the museum is that
it listened to local people. I loved the art project that
produced an installation of ceramic ‘ears’ of local resident;
then the smell of the kitchen and its local recipe classes;
but most especially all the lovely treats made for the
guests by a local resident..

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FARO IN FINLAND AND ESTONIA
Image: Faro Seminar. Photo: Cultural Ministry, Estonia.
Liina Jänes Adviser at the Ministry of Culture coordinated
the seminar organised by The Estonian Ministry of
Culture, the Finnish Heritage Agency and the Council of
Europe.It took place in October in Tallinn, Estonia. The
event gathered 70 participants both from governmental
and civil society actors mainly from Finland, Estonia. It
shared experiences and good practice in the process of
implementation of the Faro Convention. WATCH
COUNCIL OF EUROPE APPOINTMENTS
We are happy to welcome Marja Ruotanen was recently
appointed as the new Director General of Democracy and
Human Dignity (DGII). We also want to send our
appreciation to Kathrin Merkle for all her work during her
time as the Head of Culture and Democracy Division,
Democratic Governance Directorate.

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CONGRESS OF HERITAGE EDUCATION, MADRID
Ángel Portolés Górriz, University Extension Program of
the UJI and the Faro Convention Secretariat and
participated in the V International Congress of Heritage
Education in Madrid. This year's edition has emphasized
the theme of heritage communities and digital
environments.. It was a unique opportunity for local
initiatives to travel and present their own work alongside
the supporting university structures.
FARO AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
In our last communiqué we reported on the consistent
work that Fabienne Manguy (Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region),
Aline Rossard (Ligue de l’enseignement teachers’
association), Maël Lucas (Cultural Rights Transition
Laboratory), and others are doing.
Image: Bordeaux Cultural Rights Faro Reseearch Maël Lucas

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Jean Michel Lucas has co-authored a report for Nouvelle-
Aquitaine Region in which he explores ways to implement
cultural rights in the Region. The Faro research seminar
set out to add its knowledge about how to make cultural
rights real in Bordeaux and beyond. A report will be issued
but in the meantime here are some introductory remarks
by Lucas in the 2019 report that are thought provoking:
“We keep talking about 'sunrise' and 'sunset'. As if
the Copernican model of the solar system had not -
definitely - replaced Ptolemy's system. Our
vocabulary, our grammar, are inhabited by
meaningless metaphors, worn-out figures of
language. These persist tenaciously in the
framework, in the recesses of our everyday speech.
They move about there, like old rags, orlike ghosts
haunting the attic”.
These comments by Georges Steiner apply perfectly
to the vocabulary and grammar of cultural policy
when it prides itself on acting for the
“democratization of culture”. “However – as we recall
in this report – this cultural policy of democratization
of culture is proving very disappointing. Since 1959,
in France, it has only come a long way, contenting
itself with bringing the culture of those who have it to
those who don't! The Republic has showed
generosity towards all those who did not have the
keys to the works; it has given a lot, and still gives,
incredible opportunities to some of those who are
not heirs”.
But, the Republic totally forgot that the giving hand is
always above the receiving hand. In this regard, the

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Republic did not know how to measure the weight of
the refusal of those who end up admitting: “The
theater is not for me” or “I don't like to read”.
The Republic has not been able to admit that by
displaying its superiority over the ordinary world -
that of "local", "popular", "mainstream","ethnic",
"young", "urban" cultures, etc. - it imposed its
hierarchy and refused to recognize the equal dignity
of people whose culture was not its own.
The "democratization of culture" has become an
empty metaphor, since, for 60 years, "access to
culture for all" has not broken the gaps - too often
fractures - between cultures. Even in favorable
times, when one could believe that cultural
hierarchies were evolving - with the taking into
account of comics, contemporary music or street
arts, etc. - the “democratization of culture” has not
caused the scale of values and public resources in
cultural matters to evolve one iota. The “right to
culture” is a hope that borders on illusion. »
The worst is, without doubt, that, under this
language of "works" and "Enlightenment", the
obsession with performance, the calculation of the
best sales of artistic goods or the greatest cultural
attractiveness of the territories. The number
dominates the meaning (trans. the value).
Can we conceive of another "cultural system" based
on respect for each human being, on recognition of
the cultural freedomsof others, on the quality of
relations between cultures necessary to make
humanity together a little better and take up the
challenge of the sustainability of the world to come?

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COMMUNITY AND MUSEUM
Act II – Collecting of stories
Photo: P.Wanner
Imagine if a city museum gave the institutional keys to a
heritage community and said, “Please display your cultural
heritage.”. Well this is what the project "Rue du Musée /
Musée de la rue" is doing. The community is working with
the Ville de Marseille on the trauma linked to the collapse
of buildings 63 and 65 on Rue d'Aubagne in Marseille. on
November 5, 2018. The collapse of the buildings in the rue
d'Aubagne constituted a major upheaval and a brutal
historical and biographical break in collective history and
thousands of individual stories.
Four years later – Act 1 took place with neighbours
seeking justice endlessly and wishing to remember those
who were gone but not forgotten. The evening before, a
group of 20 civic organizations made a petition for a new
framework of rents, an urgency to protect people from

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unsafe dwellings and forced homelessness. Act 1 - 2021
– on the anniversary of the tragedy, with a title, "Prison" at
Marseille History Museum. It opened early in the morning
by the assembled group listening to the sound of bells
ringing for 9 minutes of silence, to remember the 8 victims
of the Rue d'aubagne and Zineb; to remember past battles,
victories gained and to prepare for those to come. Simona,
the mother of one of the victims, invited participants to
come together and light-up a flame of hope in the sky. Act
1 ended in the evening with a set of creative actions and
concerts.
Act 1 created the momentum for Act II. Act II "Place to
Take" marks the first phase of an invitation a to local
people to contribute objects, stories that will form part of an
evolving collection.
“Do you have documents, traces, memories and personal,
family and/or neighborhood archives? Do you know people
whose story deserves to be shared? Have you been
dislodged and would like to testify about your experience?
Did you take part in the momentum of solidarity or in the
struggles linked to the drama of November 5 and the
evictions?”
Act II, November 5, 2022 involved another gathering with
an exhibition and a day-long series of events, where
citizen paid tribute to the victims of November 5.
Collectif du 5 novembre : Noailles en colère | Marseille | Facebook
Rue du Musée / Musée de la Rue : "Place à prendre, acte II" |
Musées de Marseille | Ville de Marseille

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AND FINALLY,
Who wishes to meet online for
an exchange of Faro Network
members and friends news?
December 1 at 14.00 hrs (Paris, Rome, Madrid).
Send me the link
Image: Kartause Mauerbach, window restoration workshop taken during the European Heritage Volunteers meeting including
participation by Faro Members, Mariola Andonegui, Elena Vanagaite and Ed Carroll
Text compilation, errors and mistakes belong to [Ed Carroll]. Please write if you wish something to be
amended. The technical translation of text from French and Spanish language into Engllish used
google translate.

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