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Notice (permalien)
Réf.
41817
Type
conference item
Titre
Cultural values: Intangible forms and places
Langues
English
Auteurs
Nuti, Giancarlo
Date
2003
Pages
6 p.
Titre de conférence
14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’
Lieu de conférence
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Date de conférence
27 – 31 oct 2003
Mots-clés
intangible heritage / values
Résumé en anglais
Cultural values are to be preserved for life to have ameaning in human terms. Becoming, over many centuries
and places, has established the founding roots of biodiversityfor human cultures as well, which are the most
genuine embodiment of intangible values. The impact ofethic groups, beliefs and imported lifestyles and cultures
has developed into colonial and utilitarian geopoliticalset-ups, destructive for pre-eminent inherited values (in
African and South-American countries). The recenthistory of the European civilization has unfolded at
varying rates, since the transmission of intangible valueshas been distorted by all-invading rationalism and
insensitive technology. The human time of “knowing howto be” has been ostracized by that of having plenty of
more and a greater choice. Now, the past must be read inthe continuity of the present, even if, for the progress of
science, it is imbued with the future. Humanity is waitingfor new cultural developments, steered towards the
sources of life through the perception of the senses(expressions), the memory of the intangible (values) and
the images of places (symbols). To preserve thisunderstanding, experiences and situations drawn from
places with innate intangible values are presented –through the nature of sites and the structure of
monuments in Guatemala, Japan, Malaysia and Africa.
and places, has established the founding roots of biodiversityfor human cultures as well, which are the most
genuine embodiment of intangible values. The impact ofethic groups, beliefs and imported lifestyles and cultures
has developed into colonial and utilitarian geopoliticalset-ups, destructive for pre-eminent inherited values (in
African and South-American countries). The recenthistory of the European civilization has unfolded at
varying rates, since the transmission of intangible valueshas been distorted by all-invading rationalism and
insensitive technology. The human time of “knowing howto be” has been ostracized by that of having plenty of
more and a greater choice. Now, the past must be read inthe continuity of the present, even if, for the progress of
science, it is imbued with the future. Humanity is waitingfor new cultural developments, steered towards the
sources of life through the perception of the senses(expressions), the memory of the intangible (values) and
the images of places (symbols). To preserve thisunderstanding, experiences and situations drawn from
places with innate intangible values are presented –through the nature of sites and the structure of
monuments in Guatemala, Japan, Malaysia and Africa.
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