2016
Koinetwork has been involved in the application as co beneficiary in
a project Horizon 2020 (expected evaluation on July2016) aiming
promoting the European public and cultural space, entitled: A Bridge
over the Boundaries: Virtual Museum of the Crossing Borders. The
network is composed by 13 participants from 6 countries leaded by
the Politecnico of Milan, Department of Design.
The starting point is that European heritage and the cultural
patrimony need new ways to enable a social access as broad and
participated as possible. The virtual component necessarily spreads
throughout the territory by means of embodied and embedded
technologies, enhancing fruition that takes place not only on line
but also on site.
XBRID proposes (a) an innovative model of Virtual Museum in which
digital technologies are complementary to territorial interventions;
(b) a model of Social Platform that develops accessibility and
active participation of a broad and differentiated public, those
already active in the creation of a knowledge repository, but even
used by the emarginated ones usually left on the boundary line of
cultural operations; (c) a model that impacts locally, but whose
range is amplified and disseminated by virtual communication tools.
XBRID implements knowledge and contents owing to a multidisciplinary
European partnership of excellence with specific competences
(museums, representatives of the social-economic sector, cultural
and research institutions, subjects belonging to the education
sector, creative industries): this network should facilitate the
exchange of information among actors that have been long-promoting
art, culture and training.
The beneficiaries and users are: researchers, scholars,
stakeholders, museums, citizens and people touched by exclusion.
XBRID aims at overcoming various boundary lines to satisfy the
emerging social paradigms. It is an innovative model of social
development and comprehension of the European culture and cultural
heritage that focuses on topics related to geographical boundaries
viewed as sensitive and emblematic places for the implementation of
artistic, social and cultural processes.
XBRID envisions innovative paradigms of cultural experience and -
above all - improves the cultural identity of the communities
involved through intercultural dialogue and the activation of new
expressions of “performative heritage”.
2015
Koinetwork has been involved in
preparing the application of this project TRACINER. The project aims
at raising awareness and at training front line practitioners
working with vulnerable people, or groups at risk of radicalization,
in order to give them the most suitable tools to detect and confront
the ideological radicalization processes, understood as the
precondition for further involutions or the threat of criminal
activities.
MAIN OBJECTIVES
The training courses foreseen by the project aim to:
· raise awareness and understanding of the radicalization processes
and of the contexts where they grow, based on the training,
educational and relational needs assessment
· help the operators to recognize some of the signs of people at
risk/vulnerable people
· strengthen the public administration front line practitioners,
providing tools to react in the most appropriate way
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES
· encourage the growth and reinforcement of local working groups
(multi-agency) among public, private and civil society organizations
(like Islamic Associations to enhance the so called "Good Masters")
involving practitioners from different sectors working for the
prevention of radicalization and violent extremism
· Start up a network of “Strong cities” at the Mediterranean level
involving the local multi-agencies to share good practices and
approaches in CVE
· Start-up of a web TV focused in spreading
awareness/information/training on radicalization and violent
extremism issues (counter-narrative included)
2012-2014
Project
2012-2014
Counternarration for Counterterrorism. "The Terrorism Survivors
Storytelling.Global platform for resilience stories and
radicalisation awareness"
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Louis Bergeron est décédé le 9 octobre
2014.
Né en 1929, ancien élève de l’Ecole normale supérieure, était entré au
CNRS avant d’être élu en 1971 Directeur d’études à l’Ecole des hautes
études en sciences sociales.
Historien de la Révolution et de l’Empire, puis de la banque, du
patronat, des élites sociales et économiques du XIXe siècle et de
l’industrie du luxe, il a orienté son intérêt pour l’archéologie
industrielle et le patrimoine industriel à partir des années 1970.
Grand explorateur, homme d’études mais également homme de terrain, Louis
Bergeron, a fondé une association, le CILAC, afin de réunir tous les
acteurs du patrimoine industriel sur le terrain, en faisant d’un domaine
scientifique un atout pour le développement durable des grands sites
industriels et également lancé une revue L’Archéologie industrielle en
France toujours publiée.
Président de l’Ecomusée du Creusot-Montceau les Mines entre 1996 et
2003, il a beaucoup œuvré pour la reconnaissance international de
l’Ecomusée et pour le sauvetage du Lavoir des Chavannes, monument phare
du site, et de la tuilerie de Ciry le Noble.
Président de TICCIH (The International Committee for the Conservation
of the Industrial Heritage) pendant dix ans, il a réussi à associer
plus étroitement à cette institution internationale les pays de
l’Amérique centrale et latine et les pays de l’Europe centrale et de
l’Est. Louis Bergeron a œuvré pour un fort rapprochement entre TICCIH et
le World Heritage Committee d’ICOMOS-UNESCO, rapprochement qui s’est
concrétisé dans la signature d’une charte de collaboration.
Louis Bergeron a été aussi à l’origine, en 1999, de la revue
semestrielle Patrimoine de l’Industrie/Industrial Patrimony, la
seule revue internationale de patrimoine industriel, multilingues et
encore publiée par TICCIH, ICOMOS et Koinetwork geie.
Membre fondateur de Koinetwork geie, né comme agence européenne de
TICCIH, en 2002, il a été actif dans le groupement jusqu’au bout,
notamment dans le renforcement et l’élargissement du réseau des
partenaires du groupement et dans la valorisation de sites d’archéologie
et patrimoine industriels, dont certains inscrits désormais sur la Liste
du Patrimoine Mondiale de l’UNESCO.
Louis Bergeron a marqué profondément par son intelligence, sa culture,
sa curiosité scientifique et son affabilité plusieurs générations de
chercheurs, d’administrateurs, d’entrepreneurs et de politiques.
Plusieurs d’entre nous se réclament ses filles et fils spirituels, mais
notre pensée va aujourd’hui à son épouse qui l’a toujours accompagné
dans son gout pour la découverte et à ses enfants, Sylvie et Jean-Denis
à qui de tels parents ont su transmettre la curiosité intellectuelle,
bien si précieux.
Les membres fondateurs de Koinetwork geie et les membres du comité de
rédaction de la revue Patrimoine de l’Industrie/Industrial Patrimony,
profondément touchés par la disparition de Louis Bergeron lui rendent
hommage.
In 2010-2012.
Since 2012, the Nord-Pas de Calais
Mining Basin is registered as World Heritage in the category
"cultural landscape".
Koinetwork worked hard with local expert teams first to publicize
the idea of an evolving cultural landscape, then to highlight the
importance of architecture, and natural and human landscapes
associated with industrial production.
This formerly rural area, stretching to the Belgian border on the
east to the hills of Artois in the west, is marked by technical and
architectural treasures from coal mining built during three
centuries: workers' villages, mining, utilities, waste dumps, for a
total of 353biens remarkable for their uniqueness, integrity and
conservation status.
Koinetwork has especially helped to define the perimeter of the site
(120 kilometers long and 12 kilometers wide) and the development of
the strengths of the application, such integrity and anchoring in
the memory of the inhabitants and environment, strongly supported by
the Mayor of Lens.
Louis Bergeron and Maria Teresa Pontois helped create the
international scientific committee for preparing the application.
Among its members, Massimo Preite, as well member of the magazine "Patrimoine
de l’industrie/Industrial Patrimony” who dedicated BMU several
pages.
In 2009-2010.
Sesto San Giovanni: a
History and a Future. Industrial Heritage for the Whole World • International
Symposium, 2010 September 24 - 25. The Symposium will be broadcast
live in Italian and English on
this web page. READ
THE SCHEDULE
Koinetwork ’s Manager gives
notice concerning her professional POSITION
• Among those who have attended the Congress in Freiberg, some may
have
noted that Dr Maria Teresa Pontois had not been standing for her
re-election as a member ot the TICCIH Board of Trustees after having
served as such since 1997. She wants to let know the reasons of such
a decision, which has been a matter of deontology.
Indeed, her professional responsibilities at the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) have evolved in the course of
the year 2009. Due to her joining to the Directorate of Research
Development of that institution, she is now in charge of: - setting
up partnerships including a valorization dimension with European and
international entities and actors of the socioeconomic sphere as
well as of the academic one; - of elaborating and accompanying
partnership projects within the framework of European and
international programmes associating training and research.
In such a context, she deemed it convenient from an ethical point of
view to cease belonging to the Board of an international Comittee
like TICCIH (of which statute is that of a Charity under British
law, that is of a private entity whose directors (trustees) will
shoulder a responsability extended to the financial matters) – and
the’ Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, which is a public
entity under French law enforcing, on its side, some limits to the
private activities of its members. This decision aims to avoid any
conflict of interest or any interferences between networks within
the vast field of the social sciences of which both the Ecole and
TICCIH are parties as well.
New orientations of Koinetwork’s
activities
• Following contacts made during the French-Japanese workshop held
on 27th - 29th May 2009, Koinetwork has entered a phase of closer
relationship with the French Section of ICOMOS in view of developing
various forms of cooperation.
• In the aftermath of that same workshop, which has meant for
Koinetwork a
quite new experience with respect to its former activities, it has
been considered to give it an extension in the shape of a second
international which might be organised in France in the course of
2010. The team should consist in a deepened thought about the ways
of enhancement of industrial heritage which could allow it to be
integrated into some forms of sustainable development at the local
and regional scale, and more specifically in the case of sites of
universal or exceptional value (in the ICOMOS / UNESCO
sense). Our European Group can but be satisfied to observe that the
problematics it has put on its agenda is more and more receiving an
echo from a variety of initiatives, such as the all recent one by
the City of Belfort which has organised (13th & 14th November 2009)
a colloquium entitled «Identity and modernity of an industrial
territory», which aimed at «questioning the problem of the future of
industry in the world».
KOINETWORK’s MEMBERS AT WORK
• For Helena Zemankova, who is teaching architecture at the
Technical University of Brno, the year 2009 has been filled with
events related to cultural and in particular industrial heritage:
- within the ERASMUS intensive programme Global Quality Heritage
Management prepared by the Polytechnical Institute in Tomar
(Portugal) she has organised an international workshop in Macao,
which gathered some thirty students from all around the world and a
number of specialists. It has been made use of the criteria defined
by the organisation Herity, from Rome, for the purpose of evaluating
the cultural quality of that city and of its region (March 2009).
Koinetwork intends to attempt to develop a collaboration with Herity.
• She has been invited by Design factory, a small cultural centre in
Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia, to be a member of the jury
in the competition for reconverting the Energy Centre in Pieštany
into a museum (February 2009).
• Les Rencontres, an association of cities and regions of the Great
Europe for culture, has organised a meeting of Czech and European
elected members (on the occasion of the Czech Presidency of the
European Union)
in Zlín (June 11-14). Helena Zemankova was in charge, as a
Koinetwork’s representative, to prepare the industrial heritage day.
She set up the exhibition aith which she had formerly participated
in the European project
«Urban Industrialisation , Environment and Society: new Perspectives
of Equilibrium in Northern, Central and Southern European
Countries». She equally gave a conference on the reasons why Zlin
has been declared to be a European heritage.
• At the beginning of October, H.Z. has participated with colleagues
from Florence, Nancy, Saarbrücken and students from the four
countries in a workshop in Pietrasanta (Italy) about a project for
reusing as an art gallery an ancient derelict building in the Massa
Carrara area.
• The architecture agency Václav Zemánek is on the way to complete
the files of a project for reconverting the former Centre of Energy
in Ostrava - Vítkovice into a City of Sciences addressing the
students of the schools and the university of Ostrava.
It is about a complex registered as national monument. The
realization of that project might be engaged in 2010.
In 2008-2009 Koinetwork geie has
decided to determine a new balance within its activities. While
persisting in its basic tasks of editing and publishing TICCIH
Journal Patrimoine de l’industrie / Industrial Patrimony, our
team has reduced its investments in terms of participation in
programmes of the European Commission dealing with cultural topics
and actions. The main reason of that reduction is the gap which
seems to be more and more uneasy to fill in between the specific
interests of our group and the orientation of the European cultural
programmes. While our interests are mainly in the field of the
diffusion of the knowledge, of research and instruments of research
in industrial archaeology, of enhancement of industrial heritage by
means of its harmonious articulation on territories and landscapes,
of the preservation of the immaterial heritage, of the reintegration
of industrial heritage in economic, social and cultural types of
sustainable development of the post-deindustrialized societies, etc.
- the European Commission is now preferably supporting mass actions,
financing already powerfully endowed structures rather than small
size innovative associations, favouring fields and debates already
widely diffused about the use of media for cultural purposes, the
organization of big events, and themes peripherical or alien to
industrial heritage.
Nevertheless, Koinetwork will remain attentive to the contents and
calls in the context of the new European programmes aiming at
building bridges between Europe and non-European countries. For
instance, our group has offered its support and disponibility for
obtaining financial help regarding the Indian TICCIH
representative’s plans for a TICCIH Conference to be held in his
country.
OUR NEW ORIENTATIONS
Briefly said, they are all guided by the will of intensifying our
networking business. 1. We have established a fruitful connection with the
association Les Rencontres, which has been working over years with a
lot of European countries (beyond the limits of the European Union)
at the level of city authorities and regions. They are organizing a
series of meetings in various European cities on all the themes
related
to the construction of the cultural unity of Europe. Louis Bergeron
participated, to begin with, in their meeting of Covilha, Portugal,
in Fall 2007 (see Part Two of the issue n. 21 of our Journal),
dealing namely with the restoration and reuse of an important
heritage stock in an urban context. In Spring 2008 Maria Teresa
Pontois took part in their meeting in Mons (Bergen, Wallonia), about
the theme of immaterial heritage, and in June 2009 Helena Zemankova
will be the representative of Koinetwork in the meeting in Zlin,
Moravia, Czech Republic, in order to draw attention on the
formidable wealth of that city regarding modern industrial heritage
and its ideology. 2. Koinetwork’s interest now is strongly on applications to
the World Heritage List (in course of execution or to be planned
shortly) of industrial sites which are on the way to their urban
restructuring connected with the safeguard of their industrial
heritage. Such is the case of Sesto San Giovanni (Milan, Italy),
supported by Maria Teresa Pontois’s and Louis Bergeron’s
consultancy, or of Ivrea (Piedmont, Italy) where Maria Teresa
Pontois and Luca Guglielminetti are involved in a project of an open
air museum of modern industrial architecture at the scale of a whole
city. In Ostrava (Moravia, Czech Republic), Helena Zemankova and
Vaclav Zemanek, both as architects and Koinetwork’s agents, are
actively negotiating the recognition of their plans for a close and
proficuous association of the industrial memory with the
reactivation of the protected ex-industrial area of the most
important ironworks in the former Austro-Hungarian empire. Let us
record also the deep interest of Koinetwork towards the French
application of the Bassin Minier Nord-Pas de Calais, a thoroughly
innovative concept of industrial landscape, as well as for that of
the Swiss « clock cities » of Le Locle and La Chaux de Fonds, in
particular due to consultancies by Louis Bergeron. 3. Year 2009 will remain as a landmark in the history of the
development of Koinetwork since the group dared at that time
organize its first international workshop. The participants were
coming to Paris end of May from Japan, Saarland, Regione Lombardia,
Principalidad de Asturias, Cultural Foundation of the Piraeusbank –
and have been welcomed by the City Council of Paris, the Region Ile
de France and the Conseil Général de la Seine-Saint-Denis. Issue n°
22 of the Journal (end of December 2009) will be entirely dedicated
to publishing the proceedings of that meeting . The theme was «
Cultural Heritage and Economy », a theme suggested by a former
Japanese initiative to which Louis Bergeron had been associated in
Tokyo-Yokohama end of 2007. Truly said, the decision of organizing
that workshop has also been connected with Koinetwork’s strong
support to the Japanese « tentative list » of Wordl Heritage Sites,
which now includes in first rank the wonderful silk factory in
Tomioka (Honshu).
All those new orientations are in
line with the vocation of Koinetwork as « an agency for the
internationalisation of cultures and companies », insofar as they
imply an extended cooperation with enterprises, foundations,
ministeries (as it has been recently the case with the Japanese METI
– Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry – and the IIST Foundation
– Institute for International Studies and Training).
On 13th to 15th November 2008 an
important conference has been held at the Historical Mining Centre
in Lewarde (Nord-Pas de Calais Region), in cooperation with the
CILAC, entitled: “The Mining Landscape, a Controversial Landscape”.
That conference was also part of a campaign of events intended to
support the elaboration of the application file of the Coal Basin to
an inscription on the Unesco World Heritage List, by wide-spreading
the information among the political personnel as well as among a
local, French and foreign public about that ambitious initiative.
The General Secretary of the Centre, André Dubuc, had asked Louis
Bergeron to assume the scientific chairmanship of the conference.
The National Association of the
Architects of the French State Buildings held in Bordeaux on 4th-6th
December 2008 its annual Congress, gathering close to 400 French and
European participants. The general theme was: ”Sustainable
development and Heritages. European Policies”. The organizers, Mrs
Dominique Herla-Douçot and Nathalie Chazalette, had invited
Koinetwork to participate in one of the sessions, around a more
specific theme: ”Presentation of pilot experiences of sustainable
revitalization of redundant areas in Europe”. Within that framework
and under the coordination of Maria Teresa Pontois, papers have
presented the creation of an “ecological quarter” in downtown
Grenoble and the plans for a quarter with a “high quality of life”
in Amsterdam. They were followed by the contributions of Dr
Geneviève Dufresne, the French TICCIH National Representative and
CILAC vice-president, of our associate professor Helena Zemánková,
of the Mayor and the Director of Urban Planning of Sesto San
Giovanni, and of architect Bernard Plattner, from Renzo Piano
Building Workshop. One of the coming issues of the Journal will
namely echo their presentation of the cases of Oslo, Zlin and Sesto
San Giovanni.
On 29th October 1908 Camillo
Olivetti founded in Ivrea (Region of Piedmont) the first typewriter
machine in Italy. One century later, in March 2008, the Italian
Ministry for cultural goods and activities, following an initiative
from the Adriano Olivetti Foundation, the City of Ivrea and the
Politecnico of Milan, has created a National Committee for the
Centennial of the Olivetti Company. The programme of activities
included a cycle of meetings on the theme of the enhancement of the
cultural and architectural heritage of the company, and more
particularly on the revitalization of the Open Air Museum of Modern
Architecture in Ivrea. In the longer term what is foreseen is the
elaboration of an application of Ivrea for an inscription on the
Unesco World Heritage List.
Koinetwork was invited by Laura Olivetti and Patrizia Bonifazio,
respectively president and member of the Adriano Olivetti
Foundation, to participate in the first meeting, on the theme: ”Why
that Museum ? Themes, practices, actors”, which was held in Ivrea on
11th-16th December 2008. Our associate Luca Guglielminetti has
participated in the technical work group (together with professors
Jean-Louis Cohen and Maria Luisa Sturani), which is defining the
global enhancement strategy for such a patrimony.
Koinetwork has received from Guido Vanderhulst, a former TICCIH Board
member and President of TICCIH Belgium, and member of the High
Commission for Historic Monuments of Brussels-Region, a call for help.
We are citing him straight hereafter: “May I draw your attention and ask for your explicit support for the
safeguard and renewal of the GODIN manufacture in Laeken-Brussels (…)a
social and industrial heritage whose interest greatly exceeds the local
context. (…) Other documents are available at my address:
gvanderhulst@skynet.be A proposal for its classification as a historical monument was again
lodged in August 2006 with the Brussels Government that has full
decision-taking power. But a real estate developer has acquired the
former manufacture to set up a hypermarket and I suspect that a large,
active lobby is behind the project. If you agree, please send me a letter indicating your support and
broadcast this appeal in your publications or newsletters for example. I
will communicate your opinions to the municipal and regional authorities
and will keep you informed of the progress of the dossier. You can also
write directly to the Secretary of State for Heritage, (Botanic Building
- Boulevard Saint-Lazare, 10 – 12th floor, 1210 Brussels) and send me a
copy. 25 years ago, I founded LA FONDERIE and was Director of the Centre for
the economic and social history of the Brussels Region until 2006. I was
particularly active in successfully saving the exceptional site of TOUR
& TAXIS. Alongside La Fonderie, I enjoyed the support of most national
and international experts of our heritage. This support made the
difference.” Koinetwork is supporting that campaign.
Koinetwork has
applied at the European Commission for the approval and support of a
project within the Programme eContentplus 2008. Our group has gathered in
its partnership several TICCIH Board members as well as National TICCIH
Representatives, and leaders of national associations or of academic
institutions and private Foundations. The aim of the project is to select
materials from a number of publications in Industrial Archaeology and
Heritage in seven European countries in order to assemble them into an
open access virtual library addressing a range of different publics.
Koinetwork, as
the publisher of TICCIH Journal, is participating in an exhibition of its
publications along with the XXIIIth World Congress of the International
Association of Architects ( www.uia2008torino.org ), to be held in Turin, end of June, by care of
one of the Departments of the Politecnico. Panels are illustrating the
activity of ten country members of TICCIH in the field of Industrial
Heritage, borrowing from their 2006 National Reports or from other
articles, all published in Patrimoine de l’industrie / Industrial Heritage.
Louis
Bergeron was invited to deliver a speech on May 7th 2008 at a meeting
organised in Perugia by the Regione Umbria on the occasion of the
enforcement of a regional law on eco-museums.A number of participants came
from different regions in Italy, namely from Piedmont, whose reports were
testifying about the strength, in that European country, of the movement
intended to the creation of that kind of institution, to which industrial
heritage in particular is clearly indebted.
Tuija Mikkonen has delivered a report at TICCIH Seminar on Training and
Education within the field of Industrial Heritage, Stockholm-Norberg,
Sweden, 8-11 June 2008, entitled: ”E-learning as method in Industrial
Heritage education”. She summarized the results achieved through TORUS, a
one year project and network financed in 2007 by the Finnish Ministry of
Education. The Finnish University network for the History of Science and
Technology was a joint effort of a number of Finnish universities,
coordinated by the Department of History at the University of Oulu. One of
the 17 different courses was an introduction to industrial heritage
studies, which was planned and coordinated by Tuija Mikkonen.
Maria Teresa
Pontois has been invited to participate at Le Grand Hornu (Belgique) on
May 16th 2008 in a meeting organized by the Association "Les rencontres".
That organization, “an association of the cities of the Greater Europe for
culture”, has been created by and for elected representatives in charge of
education and culture in more than 160 territorial communities in the
European Union. The Rencontre in Mons was consecrated to the general theme of “Roots and
Culture”, a reflection around the experience of the Walloon city of Mons
(of which festival “La Ducasse” has been put on the World Heritage List as
an example of immaterial heritage). She delivered a speech entitled :
“From built heritage to immaterial heritage of industry : research,
safeguard, interpretation of the traces”. Maria Teresa Pontois had formerly delivered another speech on the occasion
of a “Rencontre” of the same Association in Covilha (Portugal) on November
8th 2007 entitled: “Is industrial heritage a value shared by local an
European cultural policies in the perspective of a sustainable development
?” This last text is available on the web at: www.lesrencontres.eu During that same meeting Louis Bergeron had delivered a speech entitled «
Induistrial Heritage : a common patrimony for the world, which should be
assumed by cultural policies in all contries ».
