International Symposium Local Artisanal Turkey 2016

Hoy os dejamos la información de un Simposio Internacional que se celebrará en Turquía. El Simposio está organizado por profesionales y académicos vinculados a los ecomuseos y la Museología Social, y cuenta con un comité científico internacional igualmente vinculado a la museología comunitaria y al desarrollo territorial.

Call For Papers:

International Symposium of

Local Artisanal Cheeses in Turkey and the World: The Use of Geographical Indication for “Kars Kaşarı” Cheese

15-17 July 2016

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Venue: Caucasus University (Kafkas Üniversitesi), Kars, Turkey

Convenor: Bogatepe Environment and Life Association (Boğatepe Çevre ve Yaşam Derneği), Ecomuseum Zavot (Ekomüze Zavot)

Cheesemaking is not only a craftsmanship that preserves and renders milk safe to consume for longer periods of time. Thanks to this craft, microbiological forms of life have been produced in many different regions of the world through unique cultural techniques under different geographical and climatic conditions.

There are many aspects of cheesemaking to consider: from ecological cycles to microbial diversity, lives of cows to the lives of bacteria, industrial techniques to traditional practices, political maps to cultural frontiers property relations to natural resource and communal management, nutritional values to food identities, pastures to dairies, supermarkets to local markets and solidarity tourism. In general, this symposium aims to explore the increasing complexity of food and supply chains in cheesemaking sectors. More specifically, the goal of the symposium is to initiate a discussion on how local artisanal cheeses differ from industrial cheeses and what sort of possibilities and limits geographical indications offer for the reproduction of artisanal cheeses, local taste, traditional know-how, and rural communities.

You are invited to submit an abstract on the topics related to, but not limited to:

•   Cheesemaking as craft: past and present

•   Changing definitions of ‘local’ and ‘traditional’ in cheesemaking

•   Relations of cheesemaking to other agriculture and animal husbandry practices

•   Cheesemaking as cultural heritage

•   Trends in consumption patterns of cheese, milk, and meat

•   Importance of pastures in traditional cheese production

•   Mainstream supply chains and emerging alternative networks linking producers to consumers

•   Geographical indication and their importance in cheesemaking

•   Production of scientific evidence for territorial distinctiveness (translating terroir)

The symposium will bring together researchers and interested sectors to better understand the use of geographical indication for Kars Cheese and other world cheeses in building farmer organizations and solidarity between local cheese producers and communities.

By peynirciliksempozyumu March 22, 2016

Óscar Navajas Corral

PhD. Museology

General Conference ICOM, 2016

IMPORTANT AND URGENT

To all ecomuseums and community museums in all countries in the world, and to all professionals who want to know more about ecomuseology

You have been already invited by Italian ecomuseums to an International Forum, to be held in Milan, on July 6-8 2016, during the ICOM General Conference.

Then you have been invited to a Call for Papers to be presented at the plenary session of the Forum on July 7, at the Politecnico di Milano. The abstracts are being received until April 15 and will be reviewed by a Jury of experts. .

Now begins the third phase of the project of Italian ecomuseums : nine ecomuseums have already expressed their wish to invite you to visit them "at home", during the days before and after the ICOM Conference. More could join them soon. Among them two guided regional tours offer to present the diversity of heritage and ecomuseums of their respective regions.

Go to www.ecomusei.eu/?page_id=1245, look at the list of visits and select the sites you want to visit. Then prepare your travel programme, through direct communication with the contacts named for each ecomuseum or guided tour. And make this opportunity known to your colleagues, friends and professional networks: we cannot know and contact all of them.

This is a unique chance to get acquainted with the world of Italian ecomuseums, but also to enlarge and share your practice and your conception of ecomuseology and community museology.

IMPORTANT ET URGENT

A tous les écomusées et musées communautaires de tous les pays du monde et à tous ceux et toutes celles qui s'intéressent à l'écomuséologie !

Vous avez été invité(e)s par les écomusées italiens à un Forum international organisé à Milan du 6 au 8 juillet 2016, pendant la Conférence générale de l'ICOM.

Vous avez été ensuite invité(e)s à participer à un appel à communications pour la journée du 7 juillet, au Politecnico di Milano. Les résumés sont reçus actuellement jusqu’au 15 avril et un jury d'experts va commencer à les examiner.

Maintenant commence la troisième phase du projet des écomusées italiens : neuf d'entre eux vous invitent à venir leur rendre visite, dans les jours qui précèdent et qui suivent la conférence de Milan. D'autres pourront se manifester d’ici quelques jours. Parmi eux, deux circuits locaux accompagnés sont également proposés, pour faire connaissance de deux régions importantes par leurs patrimoines et leurs écomusées.

Allez sur http://www.ecomusei.eu/?page_id=1245, et choisissez les sites que vous voulez visiter. Puis préparez vos visites, en communiquant directement avec les contacts indiqués pour les écomusées ou les circuits qui vous intéressent. Et faites connaître cette opportunité autour de vous : nous ne pouvons pas contacter tout le monde.

C'est une occasion unique de faire connaissance du monde des écomusées italiens et aussi d'approfondir et de partager votre pratique et votre conception de l'écomuséologie et de la muséologie communautaire.

IMPORTANTE Y URGENTE

¡A todos los ecomuseos y museos comunitarios de todo el mundo y a todos/as los/as profesionales que están interesados/as en ecomuseología!.

Están invitados/as por los ecomuseos italianos a participar en el Forum Internacional, que se celebrará Milán del 6 al 8 de julio de 2016, durante la Conferencia General del ICOM. Están invitados a participar, también, en la convocatoria para presentar comunicaciones para la sesión del 7 de julio, en el Politécnico de Milán. Los resúmenes serán aceptados hasta el 15 de abril y serán revisados por un jurado de expertos.

Ahora comienza la tercera fase del proyecto de los ecomuseos italianos: nueve ecomuseos han expresado el deseo de invitarles a visitarles durante los días precedentes y posteriores a la conferencia de Milán. Algunos más podrían unirse pronto a esta propuesta. Además, se ofrecerán dos visitas a la región con guías para conocer la diversidad del patrimonio y los ecomuseos de dos importantes regiones.

Visite www.ecomusei.eu/?page_id=1245, y elija los sitios que desea visitar de la lista. Después, prepararé su programa de viaje, poniéndose en contacto directamente con los contactos que se facilitan de los ecomuseos y de los circuitos que le interesen visitar. Haz llegar esta oportunidad a tu red de profesionales y contactos; nosotros no podemos contactar con todo el mundo.

Es una oportunidad única para conocer el mundo de los ecomuseos italianos y, también, para profundizar y compartir tu experiencia práctica y tu concepción de la ecomuseología y de la museología comunitaria.




Óscar Navajas Corral
PhD. History and Museology

Ecomuseum Features

An ecomuseum is an organic social entity arising from a community agreement for the development of the community and local areas.

The term ecomuseum was first brought to notice in 1971 at the IX Conference for the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in Grenoble and Paris, by the French Environment Minister, Poujalde, for the museums that were being developed in the National Park in France during the sixties and seventies

The arrival of the first community ecomuseum in 1973, the Urban Community of Creusot - Montceau-les-Mines, separated the ecomuseum from environmentalism and the Scandinavian Open Air Museums, and moved it towards a self-managed community initiative.

Although the ecomuseum is a French phenomenon, its philosophy and methodology has influenced other countries (Canada, Portugal, Brazil, etc.). These countries have used the idea of ecomuseum for the democratic development of economically deprived areas and communities with social problems or those which have particular socio-cultural needs. At the same time, the concern for the recovery of community identity through heritage awareness and its use for its own development wasn’t exclusively francophone; American neighbourhood museums and Mexican community museums would also help to change the concept of the museum, which is, essentially, to be useful according to the needs of the community

In the mid-seventies we found ourselves in a situation where circumstances called for a transformation of the traditional museum. Ecomuseum, Neighbourhood Museum, Community Museum, or the Integral Museum in the Round Table of Santiago de Chile (recently approved by ICOM-UNESCO, 1972). A rich panorama, with a similar philosophy, but difficult to differentiate from other types of museum; In addition, more traditional museology gradually started to aim its social functions towards different audiences (e.g. tourists) by improving its programmes, activities and media communication.

However, numerous authors (Duclos, 1991, Boylan, 1992; Hamrin and Haulander, 1995; Davis, 1999; Corsane, 2006; Mayrand, 2010, etc.) have theorized on the indicators (features) of an ecomuseum. Based on them, The following is a list of the minimum requirements of an ecomuseum.

1. A community. It is the essential part of the Ecomuseum. It is the subject as well as the object of the ecomuseum.
2. Recognition of a fragmented territory not strictly limited by administrative boundaries.
3. An Integral Heritage (Natural and Cultural: tangible and intangible). Heritage is a territorial area in which a community has historically exercised its relationship with the environment. A museologist’s work is to detect the marking of its territory and the essential elements that make up the cultural identity of its population.
4. Social action as an altruistic act. The ecomuseum is an initiative of the community. A community that is aware of and committed to social transformation for its future development.
5. Development. The ecomuseum is a formula for social, cultural and economic development of a given environment. The ecomuseum should aim to be an analysis of a particular community’s structure, issues and alternatives. The needs and future evolution of its people and the surrounding area
6. The ecomuseum does not seek, therefore, an institutional technical efficiency but the development of the Community critical awareness. The ecomuseum is a privileged instrument of community development, which does not refer in the first instance to knowledge and enhancement of heritage; it is intended to constitute a mere auxiliary of an educational, informative or cultural progress system and democratizing access to culture. The ecomuseum is a way of releasing (pedagogy of liberation) the initiative and the community actions with common objectives.

This last point has meant that ecomuseums live out of a utopia which, far from being impossible, aims to keep a community alive. This has meant that, for many authors, even its creator Hugues de Varine-Bohan, that the word ecomuseum is not that relevant. The important fact is the integral and sustainable development of the community through awareness and critical reflection of its past and present.

The ecomuseum is a process. The entire population should be involved in it. The community should be involved in every action, from inventory, pretextual-actions (exhibitions, etc.), to research, management and funding must have community representation and decisions should be made democratically. This is how self-management and social transformation will be achieved.

Óscar Navajas Corral

PhD. History and Museology

Translation by Louisa Adcock and María Gómez Bedoya

This paper was published in Spanish in: Navajas Corral, O. (2013): Características de los Ecomuseos; en VV. AA (2013): Parque Criollo y Museo Gauchesco Ricardo Güiraldes, Plan de exhibición, Buenos Aires: Exhibir · Comunicación y Conservación del Patrimonio. p: 33.