S8 - Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
The local population is the prime ambassador of their territory. They recognise sites, objects, customs, activities, traditions and the people who keep them alive, as a constantly evolving expression of their values, knowledge and beliefs. These often unrecognised forms of heritage should not be neglected, we should prioritise the most fragile and support the collective memory.
S8 Challenges
Societal challenges
- Improve quality of life
- Contribute to people’s well-being and good health
- Preserve the collective memory
- Establish good governance
- Promote participatory management
- Promote an inclusive approach to heritage
Development challenges
- Building a more inclusive and cohesive society
- Implementing the principle of integrated conservation
Knowledge challenges
- Helping to foster a shared knowledge society
- Identifying, preserving, transmitting and sharing heritage knowledge and skills
- Raising awareness of the values conveyed by heritage
- Enlisting the commitment of young people to heritage
S8 Target audience
- local
Recommended courses of action for S8
- Increase citizens’ knowledge of and information on heritage in order to enable them to participate in an informed way
- Showcase efforts by local communities to reveal and rehabilitate forgotten heritage (identification and discovery, upkeep, promotion)
- Support the transmission of oral traditions, drawing on the experience of local inhabitants
- Support local “memory and history transmission” initiatives: visits, comparing notes and exchanging memories, reports, publications, etc.
- Train inhabitants to be “ambassadors” of their territory (town, neighbourhood, company) so that they can share their knowledge and communicate their pride and their attachment to the territory and its heritage
- Support the creation or reactivation of links (intellectual, emotional, material, etc.) between citizens and the cultural heritage