Euromed Heritage Newsletter: Developing apprenticeship to save traditional skills

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FOOD FOR THOUGHTWhen dry-stone walling gives youa chance to start overbY JulIE ScOTT

FEZ, MOROCCO - C. GRAZ

Editorial

The old is adin away, the new is not yet

in siht.

Apprenceship as a tradional pracce is

increasinly permean ocaonal

trainin. Whereas it used to e an

estalished system o trainin-

employment-producon ased on an

oen tacit contractual areement, it

ecame increasinly ormalised and

reulated y rules commanded y

oernment authories. It has also lost

the tradional ond that lined an

apprence to his or her master.

Today, apprenceship is tauht intechnical schools and trainin centres in

modules that complement theory and

pracce, somemes reerred to as

internship, and qualificaon comes in the

orm o a cerficate instead o a

masterpiece. And now that

industrialisaon has come ull circle,

theories on how est to o aout it

aound, interan to it learnin and

conie science theories.

Where do our Mediterranean Partner

countries stand is--is this reamped

orm o learnin? Im araid to say thatthe eneral picture is rather loomy! The

old system o apprenceship is adin

away rapidly and is not ein supplanted

y new orms o learnin. Aempts to

presere tradional sills are ew and ar

etween and there are just a handul o

effece examples to showcase. Just lie

other orms o cultural heritae,

apprenceship should ecome a major

area o study and its deelopment should

e seriously considered, i only or the

economic implicaons it could hae

within a community.

Chrisane Dadou Nasser

Team Leader, Reional Monitorin

and Support Unit (RMSU)

FOOD FOR THOUGHT 1

EUROMED HERITAGE 4 NEWS 2

OUR FEATURE OF CHOICE 4

A TALK WITH... 5

A PERSPECTIVE ON CULTURAL HERITAGE 9

BEST PICTURES 10

MISCELLANEOUS 11

Safegarding heritage reqires tehnia skis and knowedge of materias and proesses, whih

tradionay have een aqired over ong years of appreneship to a master, earning y prae,

y experiene, and y imitaon, rather than from textooks or in a assroom. The 21st entry

presents major haenges to this me-honored way of skis transmission, as ra knowedge and

praes whether of the master arpenter or the master pppeteer strgge to ompete in a

mass market, high-teh oriented goa eonomy. There are aso, however, ases where the

reintrodon of appreneship shemes has provided a reave way of addressing proems oth

of oa nempoyment, and of the heritage indstrys skis shortages.

One sh sheme was pioneered in the north-east of Engand, where tradiona dry stone was

are a featre of the moorand andsape. Dry stone waing is a dying art, and, as the nmer of

skied professionas onnes to deine, the strtres themseves fa into disrepair and

dereion. The Northmria Dry Stone Waing assoiaon entered into a partnership with

Deerot Yong Offenders Instte, where many of the yong mae offenders not ony had never

had a jo themseves, t aso ame from ommnies where nempoyment was the norm.

Working with a professiona stone waer, they were offered the opportnity to have taster

workshop sessions in dry stone waing, with the hane for a sma nmer to progress onto an

appreneship sheme and otain forma qaifiaons. The sheme proded mpe enefits:

improved ehavior amongst the inmates; the reviva of an important ski for safegarding the

tradiona andsape; and the hane of a new start for some yong men who had een et down

y mainstream edaon and the onvenona aor marketI

To find ot more aot this and other Engish Heritage ommnity appreneship projets, visithttp://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/people-and-places/community-projects/case-studies/north-east-dry-stone-walling-project/


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EUROMED HERITAGE 4 NEWS

CONNECTING - ISSUE N8 - JUNE 2011

Do not replace the wooden doors!

TANGIER - Why shodnt we repae the

wooden doors? An ative programme ofawareness of the protetion of the tra

heritage of the Medina is on going in Tangier

within the projet Siwa & Tangier, fnded

y the Eropean union as part of the

Euromed Heritage 4 programme. This

Jorney into traditiona arhitetre, whih

is addressed to 120 stdents in 6th grade in 5

pi eementary shoos in the medina,

started in Marh and is asting nti the end of

Jne. The orse of a dration of

approximatey 20 hors for eah shoo is

designed as a way to improve awareness of

the heritage emodied y traditiona

arhitetre and knowedge of the risksreated to the oss of oa heritage identity.

The orse aows hidren to nderstand

different types of oa Moroan arhitetre

throgh gided tors and expanatory sessions,

in order to fos on a very important fnona

arhitetra eement in Moroo: the wooden

doors. The orse emphasises the danger

roght y the tendeny, widespread in Tangier,

to repae the tradiona wooden doors with

modern doors oen made ot of iron. besides

the stdy of different types of wooden doors,

stdents wi e aompanied to interview

residents of the medina and to deveop

awareness messages for the proteon of the

od doors. The messages wi e sed to

prode ommniaon toos for the projetIhttp://www.cospe.it/cospe/old/index.php

Rediscovering the memory of water in the

Mediterranean

MARSEIllE - In oth rra and ran areas

water heritage is nder threat ease of

hanging ifestyes. Sine 2009, seven partners

in Ageria, Frane, Greee, Moroo, Tnisia and

Trkey have worked throgh the REMEE project

to safegard this heritage. They have moiised

yong peope, ivi soiety, oa athories and

aowed the reaisaon of restoraon sites,

rotes of disovery, inventory, video ... In this

ontext, on Jne 16th and 17th, 2011, the

Assoiaon for Regiona Paripaon and

Aon (APARE) is organising the Ero-

Mediterranean onferene Redisovering the

memories of water in the Mediterranean.

The iniave is spported y the Eropean

union within the framework of the Euromed

Heritage 4 programme and the Frenh region

Provene-Apes-cote dAzr. The onferene -

whih is taking pae in Marseie - addresses

varios topis, from the history of water to the

tehnia and ega means of safegarding this

heritage, to the need to edate and to raise

awareness of yong generaons. The water

heritage fis indiret fnons ike iodiversity

maintenane, interest in the and, fight against

erosion and floods a this and mh more -

is deated at the REMEE confereneIwww.remee.eu/

Montada project, children making clay models

of domes

KAIROuAN - One of the ornerstones of the

work of the Montada project is the ave

invovement of hidren and the edaon

setor on the stdy, knowedge and

disseminaon of tradiona heritage. To earn

to reognise and to vae the dome as the asis

for tradiona Isami arhitetre, 20 hidren

aged etween 7 and 13 have paripated on

Satrday 16 and Snday 17 of Apri 2011 in a

workshop of tradiona arhitetre in

Kairoan, Tnisia. In order to hep peopedisover the most reognized skyine of the ity,

the avity - ondted y the Montada projet

nder the Eropean programme Euromed

Heritage 4 has fosed on the onstron of

10 domes, athogh severa other tehniqes

were sed, from drawings to painngs. Dring

the workshops the kids (oys and girs) have

made ay ower raket/ase and have it

and painted their domes Iwww.montada-forum.net/fr/montada/montada.htm

People from Casablanca have rediscovered

their city

cASAblANcA - There were 130 heritage

vonteers ready to show the most remarkae

idings and the east known itys orners,

whih for the oasion opened their doors

The 3rd edion of casaana Heritage Days has

taken take pae from the 15th to 17th of Apri,

nder the aspies of uneso, with the

paripaon of the Mutual Heritage Project.

For three days, casaanans were invited to

ook at their ity in a different way and to(re)disover their extraordinary arhitetra

heritage of the 20th entry, throgh paes

rarey aessie. 130 heritage vonteers

and mediator gides, trained for the oasion

nder the Mta Heritage projet (whih is

part of the Euromed Heritage 4 programme),

have heped to disover the arhitetra

treasres, too oen nknown. Apri 15 was

dediated to shoo stdents of Grand

casaana, in an effort to raise awareness

aot the rih modern t vnerae

arhitetra heritage of casaana, and aot

the need to omine efforts to save and protet

it. Dring the event, the first arhitetragideook of casaana (Gide de

arhitetre d 20me sie de casaana)

was aso presented. This gideook traes the

arhitetra history of the 20th entry in

casaana - a veritae aoratory of modern

arhitetre - and idenfies some of the most

remarkae idingsIwww.mutualheritage.net

The hammam opens its hidden doors

FEZ - Not ony on the Sothern shores, t

aross the Mediterranean, the hammam is a

very speia pae, with its arhitetra

featres, its soia importane, itsintergenerationa vaes, its high gender

qaities that make it a heritage site whih

deserves the attention of the Eropean as

we as of the Isami pi. We an say that

the hammam is part of the ommon identity

of the Mediterranean ontries. Sine the

times of the Roman ath-hoses, this disreet

iding has aompanied the daiy ife of

itizens aross the region

An exhiit Hammam, hidden doors, liin

treasures has given insight into the past,

present and ftre of this very speia pae, with

a fos on the present sitaon in Damass, Fez

and cairo. The exhiion whih has taken pae

in Fez, Moroo, etween Marh 22nd to Apri

10th, 2011 was designed as a ontrion to

the oeve memory in the Mediterranean

region on one hand, and as a paripatory oa

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proess on the other. The ominaon of

msem ojets, panorami photos, video

instaaons, domentary fims, arhitetramodes and a paripatory projet - showing

private hammam-reated ojets have

seeded in arang even a yong adiene to

the tangie and intangie qaies of the

hammamIwww.hammamed.net/index.html

What do kids know about their cultural

heritage ?

AMMAN Traditiona dane and msi,

pottery and mosais, pitres and videos:

Jordanian traditions have opened their doors

in Amman for the seond anna tra

heritage festiva Te Me Aot My contry,organised at the Jordan Msem in Ras a-Ayn

from Marh 29th to Apri 1st.

An exhiion of tra projets reated y

Jordanian yoth from six governorates was on

dispay, inding videos, photography, and adio.

The event has roght p demonstraons y

arsans of their oa ras, sh as tradiona

dane and msi, shrak and taon read

prodon, mosais, sand oes, poery, and

nmeros other handiras.

This festiva was part of a arger projet,

Foundations for a Strong Future: yoth inJordan and leanon promote ctra

Heritage, that aims to insti pride in tra

heritage in Jordanian yoth. With fnding

from the Eropean union/Eromed Heritage

Programme IV, the projet is impemented y

Mery corps with its oa partners The Jordan

Msem and Priness basma Yoth Resore

center. The aim of the projet is to spport

tra heritage as one aspet of pi

weath that shod e oetivey eerated

and proteted, even y yong peope. The

projet wants to promote a message of

ownership at the oa eve throgh a nmer

of toos, among whih pi events. Nationa

msems and heritage sites in Jordan (and

leanon) are meant to eome hs for

edation, eeration of tra heritage

and knowedge dissemination Ihttp://www.asassat.com/

The Old City of Tyre through the eyes of the

students

bEIRuT Ten videos, a series of photos,istraons of the Od city . The stdents of

Tyre have re-disovered their Od city. The

exhiit took pae on Marh 21 st at the Palais

UNESCO, dring the eeraons for 50 years

of Frenh-speaking yoth in leanon. AlbA

stdents from the neighorhood Zokak e

bat joined the event with their works, and so

did the Aademi uran Oservatory Maja

with the presentaon of the heritage rote of

the ity of Tyre. This iniave was deveoped

throgh the projet Mare Nostrum, within

the framework of Eromed Heritage 4.

MARE NOSTRuM intends to ontrite to the

deveopment and awareness of the heritage ofhistori port ies saered aong the

Phoeniian roads in the Mediterranean. The

main rest of the aon invoves the

revitaizaon of targeted areas, whih are

transformed into paes of ife for oa peope

throgh the reinforement of synergies

etween the past and the presentIwww.eh4-marenostrum.net

The virtual Library of the Mediterranean has

reached over 500,000 digital documents

The hp://data.manmed.org dataase is a

oeve irary whih aims at estaishing a

orps of digita doments, free of opyright,resng from iraries, arhive, msems, and

pi or private oeons reave to the

Mediterranean ontries. Today, the irary -

deveoped within the framework of MANuMED

projet and finaned y the Eropean union

(Euromed Heritage 4) - offers diret aess to

more than 500,000 doments: mansripts,

od ooks, arhives, photography, maps, et

These doments rest from the o-operaon

with more than 70 iraries, arhives and

msems partners of Mediterranean area. The

MANuMED II projet intends to ontrite to

the preservaon of the diversity of the wrien

heritage (and its oroary, angage) as an

intangie heritage. A shared Virta lirary of

the Mediterranean, m-inga, m-

aphaea, wrien and aos, is

impemented within this projet Iwww.data.manumed.org

Montada, they do have fun ...

. Ageria, operaon green casahhttp://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.198139806873389.45979.112851195402251

. This pam groove is ors and we ean it p!http://www.montada-forum.net/montada-alg%C3%A9rie.htm-1

. Downoad, print and send ards aot the

tradiona arhitetre of the Maghrehttp://www.montada-forum.net/montada.htm-0

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OUR FEATUREOF CHOICE

Local silk produconin Syria isa family-businessbY RASHA AROuS, SPEcIAlIST IN uRbAN PlANNING

Natra sik manfatring is rooted in

Syrian tre and is an integra

omponent of Syrian intangie heritage.Master rasmen handed down their

skis to their desendants, and these are

refleted in their famiy names, whih is

very ommon inAl-Sham region - a

Msaddi (the one who pts the warp

threads in pae), a-Qazzi (reated to the

sikworm- qa)) are jst two exampes.

Yet these names are no onger onneted

to the famiies rrent opaon, as the

indstry, s thriving 90 years ago, is in

need of reviva. It started to deine in the

thires of the ast entry de to majort downs on the demand side of oter

markets (lyon in Frane for exampe). The

t downs are arited to the

introdon of arfiia sik, ompeon

of ow ost working fore of Far East

natra sik, in addion to the finania

rises and the onseqenes of the

indstria revoon. The introdon of

western stye othing whih repaed the

tradiona one made p of natra sik

has ontrited frther to the deine of

oa sik prodon. Today, and ease

of its qasi disappearane, sik

manfatring is mosty onsidered as a

tra asset rather than a remnerang

eonomi avity.

Sik prodon was widespread

throghot Greater Syria for entries.

Midde pains and oasta montains

offered natra ondions that had

aowed sik vaon. It s srvives in

some viages in the west of Syria,

leanon and Anoh as a oage

indstry. Despite the deterioraon ofoa vaon of natra sik, Syria is

renowned for sik texe prodon:

seventy-three different tradiona

othing items (mosty dependent on the

imported natra sik) were reported in

Syria in addion to other non-othing

items. Evidenty, two hains of proding

natra sik fari are avaiae: the ones

sing imported natra sik, and the

oay proded ones whih are made

with the fiaments of the oay

vated ooons and whih are the

fos of this piee of wring.

The tradions and skis of the different

stages of the oay proded natra sikare passed down to sons, daghters and

to interested peope throgh a non-

forma and on-the-jo form of

appreneship. However, the speiaised

skis are eoming hard to find among

the yonger generaons and most

praoners do not want to give their

knowedge ot for many reasons. Were it

not for the reent introdon of

ssidies to ooon vators from the

Syrian oni of Ministries, there wod

have een an even esser nmer.Nonetheess, Appreneship shod e

part of an integrated soon ofthe

fixinof the roen industry: ooking

at the maadies rather than presriing

temporary remedies. by that, it wi

reate the driving fore for peope to

seek eing apprenes y reang a

demand side. It shod omprise a

rrent and deveopment-reated skis,

sh as reeding and proding sik eggs,

whih is a very deiate tehniqe that

reqires knowedge, prae and

paene; seritre knowedge: reaon

of aimazed spaes, eqipment, et.;

reeing and finishing of yarns; and finay

weaving. Addiona skis shod aso e

inded sh as: oom-iding and too-

making for men; designing and

remodeing the fina faris throgh

reave taioring and finishing; dyeing

and proding marketae sampes;

tradiona ooon pitres making for

women.

besides the agritra and indstria

avies reated to sik manfatring,there is another sort of division of aor

y gender in the different stages of the

prodon, whih are a aor

intensive. A reent stdy of the sitaon

(2009) showed that mothers were 41%

invoved in the vaon; fathers

ontrited 35%, hidren 23% and

grandparents 2%. This is very different

from indstries in ran and modern

eonomies where there is a poarisaon

of men and womens work roes. A famiy

of proders and a ommnity-ased

indstry invoving many peope from

different akgronds in an integrated

way, have a ght ink to soio-eonomi

deveopment of the viagers andontrite to the reonstron of the

soiety. Frthermore, its stages form a

vita part of the ives of the peope who

graefy dea with the soulsand are

so aahed to them I

Rasha Arous is a specialist in uran

plannin in deelopin countries; she

studies the socio-economic condion o

people liin in walled cies and

possiilies o parcipatory rehailitaon

schemes with [email protected]

References:

. Atrash, Reem (1996), Sik in Syria, Aexandrea

and leanon. Damass: Ministry of ctre.

. AKate, Maya (2010), Syrian Sik: Portrait of a

iving ctra Heritage. Damass: Danish

Instte in Damass, Seond Edion

WOMENUSINg THESPINDLE(MAgHzEL) TO WRAP AND TWIST NATURAL SILkYARNS IN THE vILLAgE OfDEIR MAMA, SYRIA

MOHAMMAD SAOUD IN DEIR MAMA REELINg ON THEARAb WHEEL TOgET

THENATURAL SILkYARN WITH HIS SONALI HELPINg HIM, ALI IS THE fIfTH

gENERATIONTO LEARN THESkILLS. PHOTOS bY: fRANzISkA LAUE


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Could you give us a glimpse of the arts and cras industry in

Palesne?

The arts and ras indstry has payed a major roe throghot

the years in Paesne, and different areas are tradionayspeiaised in different ras. For exampe Nas is speiaised in

natra oive oi soap prodon, Heron in gass prodon and

bethehem whih is or area of interest is speiaised in oive wood

arvings, emroidery and mother of pear prodon.

How was the transmission of tradional skills secured

throughout the generaons?

The tradiona skis have een roght into the ontry dring

different me periods and sitaons, and these skis have een

earnt y different peope and it has stayed within their famiies

for generaons, however reenty these transmissions are

deining de to the ak of interest of the yonger famiymemers to onne in their anestors footsteps, and who prefer

to foow a different orse.

The reason for this ak of interest is that it has eome more

diffit to make a iving y it, moreover mahines have een

repaing the handmade prodts and the heap imports are

destroying the reptaon of the trade.

In other words, there is a desperate need for rehaiitation inthis area. Peope shod e frther edated on the importane

of oa rafts and training entres shod e estaished in

order to aow for the yoth to partiipate in the ontinaity of

this indstry.

Apprenceship is one of the most significant trends in vocaonal

educaon: do you sll have master crasmen and do they have

a formal role in the transmission?

There are varios individas who are onsidered experts in

speifi fieds, t they are eoming fewer and fewer; these

experts an e movated to paripate in extended earning

programmes to teah those interested.

un now they have no forma roe in the transmission as they are

afraid to teah others and ose their own share of the indstry,

however with the appropriate inenves, they might e

interested. The proem is that these inenves are mosty of a

A TALK WITHDr Samir Hazboun,Director of the Bethlehem chamber of

commerce and industry de Bethlem

Lack of movaon and unfair compeon threaten the handicras industry

Historiay, Paesnian arts and ras prodon was very mh integrated to forms ofprodon of the eastern Mediterranean region t with a speifiity of its own: the fat that

Paesne is the Hoy land has given oa prodts an added vae. Dr. Samir Hazon, Diretor

of the bethehem chamer of commere and Indstry, is an eonomist and a researher and he

gives s a gimpse of how the oa siness of handiras is managed and what are its opons

for the ftre.

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peniary natre, and herein ays the proem. They might e

made to fee pride in mastering these skis, whih is very

important, t it is not enogh; it wi take mh more to get them

to want to share their knowedge and engage in training orses.

Do vocaonal/training schools secure apprenceship in

tradional arts and cras? Is it formally recognised by the

authories? If not, are there efforts to secure this recognion?

We have one ras training entre, whih is the Saesian Tehnia

Shoo, and whih gradates stdents in oive wood and mother-

of-pear arving, t it is hardy enogh. There is s a high need

for improving the rrim and improving the qaity of the

training. And this is where the masters od pay a roe.

Aso, this type of forma training is not propery vaidated or

vaorised: there is no differene etween those who aqire a

erfiate and those who do not, as the skis taght in the shooan e aqired throgh on-the-jo training. And if we onsider

reognion of the erfiates this reqires a detaied stdy in the

aws and regaons and speia inenves are needed to e

offered y the ministry of torism/ ministry of aor to enorage

the handiras entre and raise awareness aot the vae of

handiras as part of or heritage.

How important is tradional producon within the local

economy?

The tradiona prodon is very important as 80% of the oa

prodon is sod to pigrims vising the hoy and and 20% is

exported to foreign ontries. However the oa prodon iseoming threatened y heap imports from other ontries,

mainy china t aso other Soth Asian ones. We have no rea

figres onerning emroidery, whih is mainy rn as a oage

indstry or managed y haritae soiety. It is another area of

prodon whih is typia to bethehem and it is prased and

managed y women. Therefore the deveopment of emroidery

od e a very important nihe for empoying women and

empowering them.

We need to promote the fat that oa handiras are not jst

prodts t they are a form of oa art whih is typia of or

area, and in this sense, not any other simiar prodt an ompete

with it. The senmenta/reigios/tra vae of this prodt

shod e pt forward amongst the proders, t aso amongst

the yers. So some proper markeng is reqired.

What are the main problems facing the arts and cras industry

today?

I eieve I have menoned the proems in my answers aove

however I wi sm them p in a few points:

. The ak of movaon for engaging in this form of prodon.

. The ak of training entres.

. The ak of movaon for experts in order to onvine them to

provide their experse.

. The nfair ompeon from ontries sh as china.

. The need to edate oas and foreigners of the signifiant

importane of oay proded handiras and to onsider

them an art and not jst another prodt I

Interiewed y: Chrisane Dadou Nasser


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A TALK WITHDebora Angeli,Project Coordinator, COSPE.

What are the arts and cras parcular to the oasis of Siwa (Egypt)

and the port city of Tangier (Morocco)?

The oasis of Siwa has a ong tradion in handira with parar

referene to emroidery, siver, pam eaves prodts, erami.

Emroidery and siver are very typia. The ity of Tangier is known

for the handira onneted with texe and mosai in erami. bt

it is parary in Siwa that the projet is experimenng with a work

proess whih tries to ink the empowerment of women with the

improvement of handira prodon. Tradionay most handira

prodon in Siwa invoves mosty women, and nowadays mae-

dominated tradiona prodons, sh as siver, are kept aive y

women. In the oasis men are more invoved in torism and

agritra avies and handira is more and more onsidered a

ow eve eonomi avity and therefore e to women. We od

speak of a seond eve eonomy, whie at the same me it

represents for women the ony means to have an atonomos

inome. The projet took in onsideraon this aspet as a departre

step to impement an empowerment proess for women in Siwa.

What is the situaon of their producon at the moment? In your

project, you are focusing on empowering women and improving

their economic situaon; how are you doing that? (...in terms

relave to apprenceship of course...).

Throgh the projet, we have fond that a anient knowedge,

parary pertaining to women, is at risk ease of a growing

massive torism and of the introdon of so aed goaised and

fast prodts, whih are more arave to the yong generaon.

For exampe, the prodon of emroidery in the past was

onneted with the eeraon of marriages and girs earnt the

tehniqes of emroidery from the od women of the famiy to

prode their own wedding dresses. Nowadays ess and ess girs

want to work years to make their wedding dresses and the ire of

transmission of the knowedge is therefore at risk. At the same me

massive torism reated a ig demand for heap emroidered

prodts and the rest is poor in design and qaity. The emroidery

prodts of Siwa, whih an e onsidered an important aspet of

its tradion and tre and onstte an important ommeria

potena are sowy trning into sovenirs sod ony within the oa

market for torists. This trend is impang on women proders

who, in order to sere a qik inome, repiate the same modes

that are emped of their origina niqe meaning. Instead of giving

a posive thrst to the prodon of the tradiona emroidery in

risis, the inflx of torists has damaged it.

The projet deided to invest in three setors: emroidery, erami

and siver. Women grops have een invoved in a first phase of

training with the ojeve to improve their tehniqes and to

reate new designs and higher qaity prodts, ased on new


Project Siwa-Tanger: cultural heritage for a beer life

The project aims to preserve and enhance the local cultural heritage in Morocco and Egypt withina sustainable development framework through parcipaon, local ownership and knowledge

disseminaon. One of the main acvies of the project is the empowerment of women through

training in local arts and cras.

FEZ, MAROC - 2010CAIRO, EGYPT - NABIL BAHGAR 2010


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and od tehniqes. The trainers are a women arsans and arsts

iving in Siwa. Ony the training on siver is paray impemented

in cairo. The training has in fat the ojeve to smate women

to reate new modes and new designs withot osing the od

knowedge. The next step invoves the management of the enre

ire of the prodon and its markeng, whih is the most

diffit aspet. The women in Siwa have imited moiity and

hardy meet peope otside their own immediate srrondings; a

married woman annot even enter in a pi spae. It is for this

reason that yong siwi women have een invoved from the

eginning in the organizaon of this avity with the idea to reate

oa femae ompetenies in prodon, organizaon and

network. The projet promotes yong women t aso promotes

the onneon etween yong and od women who are

onsidered an athority in siwi soiety. The projet does not want

to reate gender onflit t intends to work on new desires and

the wiingness of yong women to work and to paripate in theeonomi ife and gain their independene, whih is an important

step reognized aso y od women. Yong siwi women pereive

their ftre whie maintaining a deep onneon to the past, the

heritage, the memory.

What is their response to these efforts?

Aot 50 women proders are partiipating in the training

sessions with mh interest and motivation. Eah grop of

women eeted a spokeswoman who wi aso e trained in

networking and marketing and at the moment there is a sma

grop of women who are ndergoing this training and therefore

fee inreasingy onfident to take the next and more diffitstep, whih is to negotiate with men for the management of the

entire ire of prodtion (to find raw materias for exampe)

and marketing.

Do you think that these efforts will bear economic fruits?

We are working in this direon, of orse, even if we are

onsios that the sitaon of gender disriminaon does not

hep. It is for this very reason that we impemented trainings with

the doe ojeve to inrease the qaity of the prodts and

to reinfore at the same me women to eome more

independent in the management of prodon. The projet

onsidered aso the rests of the market stdy we impemented

at the eginning of the projet. This stdy indiated that torists

do not appreiate what is nowadays in the oa shops. Many

torists wod ike to find some good qaity prodts and wod

prefer to pay more for a good qaity prodt than to have simpy

a sovenir. For this reason the projet is trying to reate new and

good qaity prodts and to introde them in the oa market.

In the next months, we wi organise training and awareness-

raising avies with oa shopkeepers on this isse. We want to

revitaise the handira prodon from an eonomi perspeve

t aso from a tra one so that the roe of women in the

proteon and promoon of intangie heritage is reognised and

gender disriminaon reversed.

What measures are you taking in order to ensure the

sustainability of your acons?

The sstainaiity of the aon is assred at different eves. First

of a, the projet invested in spporng the grops of women as

soia grops who reognise the vae of oeve as a shared

spae of atonomy. Seondy, this proess permied to reate a

sma network of women iving in Siwa who an spport these

grops; the trainers are part of this network. Thirdy, the higher

qaity of their prodts rings its ditates to the torism market

whih asks for eer qaity prodts. There remains the ig

qeson of markeng and the apaity of women to eome

more independent in order to manage the market otside Siwa.

At the moment this is not possie, t we are working with oa

assoiaons to give more atonomy at east to the women who

an eer defend the interests of women proders. bt it is ear

that the key word for this work proess is responsiiity:

responsiiity of women proders to ask for more independene

and start new proesses of hange in the ommnity; the projet

for sre gave them the possiiity to give more vae to their

knowedge, to e ae to manage the enre ye of prodon

and to nderstand the importane of reavity and the need for

responsiiity and atonomy to ahieve it I

Interiewed y: Chrisane Dadou Nasser


FEZ, MOROCCO - 2010


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A PERSPECTIVEON CULTURAL HERITAGE

Learning to reclaimtheir own heritage:the experience of thePRODECOM project

The onstron of a projet on the

promoon of Mediterranean tradiona ras

has aowed rasmen from the PRODEcOM

network to reaim their heritage and regain

their pride in their work. The traveing

exhiion Prints and oors of the

Mediterranean has aowed them to

redisover their reavity and to see how

their tehniqes and skis an e appeaing.

Today, they no onger have the same ook on

their own prodons.

Professions in ras and art, in their ars or

itarian fnon, represent a vaae formof tra expression as important to the

North as to the Soth. The arfats are

affordae tra properes. They are

eegant, maeae, sef, transferae and

eonomiay affordae. They represent the

popar faet of the genis of iviizaon and

an represent a meeng vehie etween

peope. Handiras reflet trade and tra

interminging that haraterize hman

soiees, parary in the Mediterranean.

Yet, despite their ndeniae ontrion to

the tra vitaity of the region, the

Mediterranean rasmen are faing severeproems reated to trade goaizaon,

ompeon and oen to the devaaon of

their skis. Mediterranean handiras are

oen reded to their market vae and to

meet the needs of mass torism and the

market of sovenirs. This context has resulted

in the devaluaon of cra pracces including

by the producers themselves who, being in a

survival dynamic, oen forget the value of

their experse.

The PRODEcOM projet (Prodts,

Deveopment and commniaon), deveoped

y the Mediterranean chamer of Fine Arts

and its partners, and fnded nder the

Eromed Heritage Programme II for the period

2002-2005, was designed on the prinipe that

cra must be recognized as not only a pillar of

the living heritage but also as an economically

viable and socially construcve identy

marker for human communies.

PRODEcOM was ased on the oservaon

that the know-how reated to handiras is

oen rare and fragie and mst e deveoped

and spported. The transmission of

knowedge and the need to preserve and

promote the diversity of tra expressionsare indeed important haenges in these

mes of tehnoogia deveopment and

goaizaon. They an ony e ahieved y

spporng reaon, innovaon and

exeene, parary throgh edaon,

forma and informa professiona, gidane

and mehanisms of spport.

Dring the idenfiaon phase and projet

formaon, we idenfied a signifiant nmer

of rerrent proems faed y arsans,

parary in terms of the preservaon of the

know-how and tehniqes. Among them, the

ak of adeqate training of some arsans totake a market that has eome internaona,

resng in a ak of renewa of the ra

prodon, the isoaon of many arsans from

their stomers and their expetaons and

disinterest of the yonger generaon to the

profession of rasman, opy a prominent

pae. PRODEcOM deided to try to sove these

proems throgh a da approah:

. Raising awareness, informaon and

edaon among the pi on the heritage

vaes of the ra professions in the

Mediterranean, and in parar of the

exhiion Prints and coors of the

Mediterranean;. Organizing seminars and training orses for

the enefiiaries of the projet on the

estaishment of a ae for handiras aed

ctre Deveopment Prodts .

This ae is the first regiona instrment of

proteon that effevey integrates the

tra dimension to eonomi and soia

dimensions of the ra. It aims to effevey

protet the rights of the proders, to promote

the finished prodt and garantee the

athenity of this prodt among onsmers.

Its onept is ased on the tra vae of

handiras, soia responsiiity of their

manfatrer, ompiane with internaona

onvenons, the tehnia qaity and

athenity of ojets.

The ae ctre Deveopment Prodts

has offered to PRODEcOM the opportnity to

design a oherent strategy for the training of

arsans of the network: six sessions of regiona

seminars and tehnia training, organized in

trn in Jordan, Trkey , Greee, Ageria, Frane

and Moroo, have aowed arsans to earn

first how to vae their own reaons, to

address isses of governane and pae their

work within the framework of internaona awon proteon of intangie tra heritage.

The tehnia training has raised awareness of

the ontrion of the ommon tra

memory to the onstant renewa of reave

rasmanship and qaity prodts.

The PRODEcOM training foowed a

paripatory pedagogy that had as its main

goa to ase an emaon and smate the

movaon and the reavity of the arsans.

The projet seeded in ringing together

reators who own simiar and ompementary

tra idenes and yet didnt know eah

others. At east 379 rasmen and arsans inthe 7 ontries invoved in the projet have

een direty assoiated with ae isses and

have therefore paripated in the formaon

of its award riteria. This nmer has

inreased throgh oa iniaves, meengs

inspired y or aons in the wake of

PRODEcOMI

Contact:

Lila Sareli , European Cultural Networ or

Deelopment Cooperaon

[email protected]

FORMATION PRODECOM, RABAT, MOROCCO

EXPOSITION PRODECOM, FIRENZE, ITALY


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BEST PICTURES

These pitres are an array of the est images oeted within the Eromed Heritage programme to show the rihness of the Mediterranean tra

heritage. The RMSu and RehaiMed Assoiaon have anhed on 3 May 2010 a Photography Award ontring to awareness-raising of tra

heritage in the region. The awarded photos are pished on the EH4 wesite Photo Gaery: http://www.euromedheritage.net/intern.cfm?menuID=88

Edion 2011 is pending...


AREZZO - GIULIA BERTELLETTI LA TERZA NEL MEZZO - ILARIA GIACHI

LE CAIRE - NABIL BAHGAR TIPASA - CHRISTOPHE GRAZ

DAMASCUS - MICHAEL DANNINGER FES - MICHAEL DANNINGER


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Our selected quotaon

The construcon of the Mediterranean requires paence; opposite the countless myths of division,sll dominant everywhere, one must paently construct different myths []and find from the past the

symbols, the men, the ideas, the places, the acts, and the eras that unite. Amin Maaof

Whats on

A response pan for Msem The (Amman, Jordan Jne 12-13)

The iiit and stoen anqies trade is onsidered today as one of the argest iega sinesses in the

word. In 1994 aone, the esmate y Sotand Yard in sh stoen tra property was 3 iion brish

ponds wordwide. One a ooted ojet has een removed nawfy from the ontry of origin, poie

have great diffies in traking sh ojets.

bt professiona thieves are not the ony proem: in ight with

the reent ivi nrest in the Ara States, is today more

important then ever to spport msem athories in theirtask to protet oeons, e it from aidents or iega

avies, armed onflits or natra disasters.

This is the sjet deated on Jne 12-13 in Amman, Jordan,

at the Department of Anqies, where msem diretors and

msem serity experts - espeiay from Ara ontries - are

invited to paripate in a two-day workshop dediated to a

Msem The Response Pan. This workshop is organized

nder the framework of the ctre Programme fnded y the

Eropean commission: Witness the Past: Edaon Programs for the Pi and ctre Heritage

Professionas on Iiit Traffiking of Anqies. Internaona experts on msem serity are going to

present their approah to risk management and the response pans, in order to foster o-ordinated

aons to prevent the, to deveop adeqate response, and to promote effeve reovery aons. On

the agenda of the workshop are strategi pans to protet oeons against varios kinds of risks in the

ase of fire, aidents, iega avies, armed onflits et, sh as the ICOM Handbook on Emergency

Procedures or the Msem Emergeny Pan (MEP) .

To find ot more: http://www.witnessthepast.gr/

Readers corner

Thinking Throgh Torism, Jie So, Tom Sewyn, 2011

The stdy of torism has made key ontrions to the stdy of anthropoogy. This vome defines the

rrent state of the anthropoogy of torism, examining poia, eonomi,

ideoogia and symoi themes.

A oeon of ase stdies istrate topis as diverse as hospitaity, sex and

torism, enhantment, oonia and neo-oonia onsmpon, and the reaon

etween torism and gender and ethni ondaries, as we as qesons of goa,

eonomi and tra systems, modernism and naonaism.The ook aso overs praa and poiy isses reang to ran, rra and oasta

panning and deveopment.

Thinking Throgh Torism assesses the enormos potena ontrion that

anayses of torism an offer to the mainstream of anthropoogia thinking. The

vome opens p new avenes for enqiry and is an essena resore for stdents

and shoars of anthropoogy, geography, torism, soioogy and reated disipines.

Our Agenda

RMSU events

G28-30 Jne 2011 beirt, leanon

Eromed Heritage 4 workshop on

Appreneshiphttp://www.euromedheritage.net/intern.cfm?menuID=9&submenuID=7&idnews=526

Internaonal events

G27 May-19 Jne 2011 - Sanary sr Mer, Frane

First fesva of Mediterranean Photographyhttp://www.festivalphotomed.com/index.php/fr

G16-17 Jne 2011 - Marseie, Frane

REMEE conferene Redisovering thememories of water in the Mediterranean

www.remee.eu/

G19-21 Jy 2011 Heron, Paesne

Internaona conferene on the

Deveopment of historia ity entreshttp://www.hebronrc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=271&Itemid=124&lang=en

G5-10 Septemer 2011 Rimini, Itay

Internaona Smmer Shoo in Geography

of Torismhttp://www.economiarimini.unibo.it/Economia+Rimini/Didattica/Summer+e+winter+school/Summer+School+2011/International_Summer_School_in_Geography_of_Tourism_2011.htm

G23rd Septemer 2011 - cartage, Tnis2nd conferene of Mare Nostrm -

Phoeniian Rotes in the Mediterranean Seawww.eh4-marenostrum.net/

G Septemer 2011 Zakyntos, Greee

Piot internaona workshop in arhitetra

onservaonhttp://www.diadrasis.org/projects/romiri/general_description.html

G27 Novemer 2nd Deemer Paris, Frane

17th IcOMOS Genera Assemy and

Sienfi Symposimwww.icomos.org

G8-11 Deemer 2011 Tnis, Tnisiaconferene on Modern Arhitetre in the

Maghrehttp://www.archi-mag.com/essai_56.php

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