“CULTURE 2000”
FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME IN SUPPORT OF CULTURE
Title:
“The Past in the Now – to live in a historical town”
I. Premises of the project.
The topic of the project is the European historical towns.
The project comprises collecting, analysis, exchange and popularization of information on the subject of contemporary functioning (development and protection) of European historical towns.
The exchange and popularization of information as well as experience will be done by means of publication, a series of educational films, a website and publicity campaign.
Each country, participating in the project, will pick the historical towns that are the best utilized and exploited. The criteria for the choice are to be: successful adaptation of the town to contemporary housing, market, trade, tourist, and administrative functions. This means that, the towns will be evaluated in terms of the needs of the contemporary society, but not from the viewpoint of historical values. The protection of historical towns (the conservator issues) will be proved to be an action serving a fulfillment of the needs of contemporary society.
The project is to depict that heritage (historical towns) can be utilitarian and serviceable for modern society, sometimes can be a crucial factor for development.
The important feature of the project is to convert traditional prospect; historical town serve to society, not to some abstractive purpose – the protection of heritage. This concept defines the title of the project: “The Past in the Now – to live in a historical town”.
The project is of research, educational and informational character.
The specialist dealing with the historical towns’ protection in the co-operation with municipalities of historical towns will realize the project.
II. Project Components
The project comprises three components.
Publication
The selected towns from each country will be presented in so called “reports”.
The collected reports will be translated into languages of the countries participating in the project and than published.
The publication will be distributed freely among the conservator service and the municipal authorities of historical towns.
Film series
There will be made an educational film series (3 editions) tilted: To live in a historical town. They will be translated and distributed freely among the schools of historical towns of the participating countries.
Website
There will be produced the international website which will function as a tool to help the exchange of information concerning contemporary functioning of historical towns.
III. Timetable
Project starting date: June 1, 2004.
Project finishing date: July 30, 2006.
Total: 26 months.
Stage / Period / Activity / ExecutorsI stage
June 2004 - July 2005
/14 months/ / -Selection of the towns
-Gathering and elaborating of materials that will be used (scientific literature, information, documents)
-Preparation of national reports (circa 30 pages plus illustrations)
Executors: co-organisers of participating countries
II stage
August 2005 -
Martz 2006
/8 months/ / -Publication release - collected reports (circa 200 pages)
-Film series production
Executors: the coordinator and the co-organisers.
III stage
April 2006 – July2006
/4 months/ / -Production and starting of a website
-Distribution of publication and film series
-Publicity campaign
-Closing conference; debate on future cooperation and projects
Executors: the coordinator and the co-organisers.
IV. Partners of the project.
There will be at least five countries participating in the project.
In each of the country there will be set up a team (fulfilling the criteria of the co-organisers of the project)
The teams will the elaborate the national reports – each report will reflect three to five historical towns.
INFORMATION
Prof. PL. dr hab. inż. Bogusław SZMYGIN
Technical University of Lublin
20 – 624 Lublin Poland
ul. Nadbystrzycka 40
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