Author: Prosper W

Text of the speech by Lisette Narducci, mayor of the second sector and Vice-President of the General Council at the Marseille Forum on the social value of the patrimony for the company on 12 and 13 September 2013 on the site of the workers of the naval repair. Dear Mr Hirt and members of the Association of Naval Repair workers, ladies and gentlemen of the Council of Europe, the European Union, ladies and gentlemen of the elected representatives, ladies and gentlemen of the delegations of Venice, Oran , from the Seine Saint Denis, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, Thank you, Mr Hirt, for welcoming us. Here, men, workers have decided to build and preserve the memory of their work, which has disappeared, swept away by the mutations of the port. Behind their action there is a struggle, resistance. This is not a nostalgic place. It is the living history of a culture that is not in a beautiful mirror. Today, politics no longer takes responsibility for this dimension of culture, and it is precisely to talk about it that I am here with you. We have known each other for many years Mr. Hirt, I was convinced for a long time about the importance of what you have achieved with your friends. There is something going on here that concerns us all, which is a heritage within the meaning of the Faro convention. In the Convention the cultural heritage is described as « a collection of resources inherited from the past that people consider, beyond the regime of property ownership, as a reflection and an expression of their values, beliefs, knowledge and traditions in Continual evolution. This includes all aspects of the environment resulting from the interaction in time between people and places. Here we are. The District council joined in 2011 to the principles of the Faro Convention. If this membership is only symbolic (national ratification only), its implications are very concrete. The coordination of heritage and creations of 2/3 was established in the same year, applying the innovative philosophy of the Faro Convention, combining heritage preservation with participatory democracy. Its richness is due to the social diversity of its members: Active/non-active, associations, institutions, artists, academics and experts or ordinary citizens. All live in the 2/3 and thus possess « an expertise of use » real and undeniable of their neighborhoods. Everyone can recognize themselves in their members, and can feel valued by the collective actions achieved. Coordination is a driving force for the development of local democratic participation, with snowball effect: it is increasingly taking on every citizen as it is and enriching the contribution and skills of each. In the coordination of heritage and creations, we advance together, we progress together, we learn together, we diffuse together… All the actions of the Coordination Patrimoine and creation of the 2/3rd arrondissements, are part of the reflection carried out during the Faro Convention, respecting the principles of human values at the centre of the management of the cultural heritage, of Transparency and shared responsibility. They translate into the innovative ideas of the various projects that have been carried out since then.

Céline BOURBOUSSON, Master 2 RH social and solidarity economy in AIX MARSEILLE University Faculty of Economics and Management presented and supported in September 2013 its memory organization and project: What mobilization Within "ORGANISATIONS-frontiers"? North Hotel, Femu Quì: From the quest for meaning between the northern districts of Marseille and Corsica.  His memory director was Nadine richer-ball, lecturer in economics. To all the anonymous heroes of the northern districts of Marseille, northern Hotel members and other reckless citizens, who work every day in the shadows for a better society. To you who defy injustice, abuse and spoliations, without any loosening, with this force that characterizes you. Per u populu Corsu, anch'ellu colpu dà the Accanimentu Mediàticu, Chì Lotta per campà di manea Dégna, si Batt contru à mommificazione di a socultura, Èsiliu, è a caliata di a so lingua. A voi altri Corsi ammuniti, Uniti è cumbattanti, purtati da un spiritist di ghjustizià è di family. Arritti tutti, o ghjenti!

• Read the brief: Céline Bourbousson master ESS memory

Faced with a crisis of political representativity, a less and less sustainable development model and increasing social tensions, on 12 and 13 September 2013 in Marseille, for the Marseille Forum a broad panel including local elected representatives, The Council of Europe, civil society actors, artists and ordinary citizens will state the role they want to play in cultural heritage for an improvement of their living environment, a solidarity economy, a strengthened social dialogue and participatory democracy. This role attributed to cultural heritage in Europe is the result of 30 years of work by the Council of Europe on "the value of cultural heritage for society" which was translated into 2005 by the adoption of a framework convention, the so-called Faro convention. This Faro Convention has begun to emerge from anonymity since Italy signed it in March 2013. However, the symposiums and articles that address it in Europe show that it is still difficult to interpret. The central place it reserves for the citizens, alone or in common, is put forward without clarifying its stakes. Is this a new category of heritage, a "citizen heritage" close to the small heritage or intangible heritage? A new Convention on intangible heritage in line with that of UNESCO? Is it advocating better consideration of "priority" audiences in heritage management? The Marseille Forum will allow the Council of Europe to revert to this framework Convention, to promote it in Europe and to update its stakes. This Forum is the first in a series of "Faro rides" that the Council of Europe programme to promote this framework Convention and create the conditions for monitoring its implementation. It will focus on the social value of the heritage for society. The back port of Marseille is poor in protected heritage whether it is listed or classified as small heritage, intangible heritage, landscape, archive,…. Just as it is in Europe one of the main foci of heritage citizen initiatives that mobilize elected representatives, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists, associations and simple inhabitants. The back port of Marseilles exceeds the administrative limits of the boroughs of Marseille concerned to extend over several neighbouring communes. It is rich in stories related to migratory fluxes and Ebb, to the evolution of the port, to industrial development, to the former bastide of the Marseille bourgeoisie,…. Its inhabitants carry these stories all like the local scholars and the scientists who are interested in them. However, the sum of the narratives does not make a collective narrative. This absence of a collective narrative favours the feeling of abandonment, exclusion and social segregation for the inhabitants: Newcomers versus inhabitants of cities versus village nuclei versus new companies. For the decision makers who are in charge of the future of these neighbourhoods, the absence of collective narrative peculiar to those who live there participates in making them "invisible": they build in the desert. This abandonment coupled with ignorance generates violence which translates into the degradation of living together and the defiance of politics and the institution. Paradoxically, the defence of the living environment has become a pretext to begin the collective narrative. Where there are declared or latent tensions linked to the living environment, there are established groups: friendly tenants, neighbourhood associations, groupings of companies, collectives of inhabitants and elected representatives… Narration of the collective narrative begins with that of the narratives linked to these tensions. This work of collective narration began as early as 1995 thanks to the establishment of a European experimental mission of integrated heritage between the city of Marseille and the Council of Europe. A "Heritage public service" was experienced through the provision of a heritage curator's position to write their collective narrative with them. This process of continuous writing reveals the sources of tensions: popular knowledge against scientific knowledge, economic use against living environment, national narrative against minority narratives, etc. The Faro convention allows us to give a framework for common regulation of its tensions. It makes the capacity developed in Europe to manage its own conflicts its common heritage, that of all Europeans: it is democracy, the rule of law and human rights. This common heritage becomes the method of managing the tensions linked to the construction of the collective narrative: democratically and in the general interest. There is no longer a descending arbitration on what is patrimonial or not but of the conciliation and reconciliation processes around a societal project, of a "living together". The "Social Value" – Living together – heritage is recognized as one of the values of heritage in the same way its aesthetic, scientific, symbolic, economic value, etc. The Faro framework Convention became in these quarters the common framework that Allows political action. The mayors of the 2nd, 7me and 8th sectors of Marseille and of the trolls signed their adherence to the principles set out in the Faro Convention. Its local elected representatives and citizens gathered in "heritage communities" have collectively adhered to the principles of the Convention to develop a common framework and perspective and to make a collective narrative.  This continuous writing process slowly weaves links and contributes to community. These heritage communities, making a collective narrative, produce citizenship. The construction of the collective narrative confronts the narratives, interviews and agencies: it allows an understanding of the environment in which people live. Representations, positions and modes of action evolve at the same time as the collective narrative is built. It allows the passage from the mode of the singular denunciation to the collective action. Everyone is a bearer of knowledge and know-how, a social recognition in neighbourhoods where it no longer exists through work for lack of jobs. This heritage process thus contributes to "making society". It contributes to a re-appropriation of the common good and develops the collective imaginary, prior to political action. The collective narrative acquires a heritage dimension that makes it legitimate and shared. Of the particular case, the issue becomes a society. The heritage process provides access to symbolic resources and collective identity that make political action possible. The heritage community becomes a visible, legitimate and resourceful interlocutor, allowing it to exist and act. In the long run, these heritage processes are proving to be powerful levers of transformation: they contribute to modify the urban planning plans as in the case of the cascade of Aygalades, to obtain legal protection as in the case of the soap of Marseille, to To recognize new heritages and have enabled the development of projects of the European capital of culture such as the GR2013, culture pilots and Hotel du Nord. To return to the Faro Convention, in all these processes, the narrative precedes the Heritage object. Heritage remains a pretext or a possible result of a heritage process but not its purpose. The heritage object can symbolize these collective narratives like other forms such as Urban Stroll, a publication (accounts of hospitality), artistic intervention or prevention action (the workshops of urban revelations), etc in this sense, it does is not to add a new category of heritage, to recommend a better consideration of the public or to contribute to better protection of the intangible heritage. The Faro Convention focuses on heritage as a process for "making society". It considers that each citizen holds a share of the collective narrative which deserves to be taken into account in order to live together better; The writing of the collective narrative – making a society – is done at the level of citizens (heritage community/principles of subsidiarity), "in the context of public action", guaranteeing the modalities for writing this narrative (Faro Convention/principle of substitution). Prosper Wanner, August 2013

• Link to the Forum: http://hoteldunord.coop/balade-de-faro/forum-de-marseille/
• Link to the Italian version of the article: Http://www.unfaropervenezia.eu/191-perche-andiamo-ad-un-forum-sul-valore-sociale-del-patrimonio-a-marsiglia

The Marseille Forum on the social value of heritage for society will take place on 12 and 13 September 2013. The opportunity to make history: accumulate 19 years of facts and their interpretation. Reconstruct the collective process that unfolds until the walks that will be shared with the members of the Forum. No, like a scream! This evidence is a counter-sense! For thus escaping the heart of the process, the work of all and all our precursors. Would escape the theoretical base that we are tracking in this return of walks. So I have to tell you a story so that you don’t have to go to 19 years of facts set out in the pretend historical but at a secret staircase, access to the implicit foundations that make us work. Here is a narrative for an implicit description of the Faro process for 15 years in the neighborhoods behind the port. An invitation to the discussions that will open on September 13th when the four walks return.

She had arrived from Germany the day before. He was in Marseille for several weeks already. He had just made a great discovery, reversing the meaning of the city, reversing the academic certainties capable of defining time. She calls it a « gaps », a flaw in time and tells him about a ghost escaped there. He had just found the Rue de Lyon, in the suburbs, in a part of the city where we only go to exhaust his life at work. In describing, for his diary, the sensation of reversal that the body feels then, he understood that it was the perfect figure, the urban form of his « thesis on the Philosophy of history » that he was completing. The rue de Lyon embodied its most extreme abstract intuition; Lyon Street became the modern icon of the 20th century, just before the great unspeakable catastrophe, totalitarianism, wars and the ultimate rebound of the European civil war. He had both the intuition of this collective catastrophe and that of his own life, of that which only had to do with him. He knew it now, he had understood it here, in Marseille, city of time and not of space. He lived the conjunction between a moment of present and a moment of past, he had returned time by going up the street of Lyon. -End of language-he knew that his initial intuition was right but he could not incorporate this discovery, then, without a word, he took it by the hand and took him to walk on the road to Lyon, in his steps, so that she understands, that she crosses her vision ful Gurante. He had become a no-speaker.

On the rue de Lyon, they walked at length, she began to glimpse this suffocating fault of our collective life. Our disaster. She followed him, she put her steps in the unfolding of her thought. And the street of a sudden took it, she recited the text written by him a few years before: « The farther we get away from the center and the more the atmosphere becomes political. It’s the docks ‘ turn, basins, warehouses, cantonments of poverty, the scattered asylums of misery (…) This fight is nowhere as ruthless as between Marseille and the Provençal landscape (…) The long street of Lyon is the mine that Marseille Dig into the landscape to make it fly in splinters… « 

So she knew that the intuition was right, that her meteoric invention should take shape as soon as possible, that the days were counted. They sat in a workers ‘ bistro at the St. Louis level. They had already advanced well in the urban undermining, they had dissolved there. They sat in fear and trembling. They got to work. He pulled out of his pocket an early manuscript, they remained bent over the 17 paragraphs of his « thesis on the Philosophy of History ».

A woman had been watching them for a while. A vast hospital woman as only toil knows how to make them. The women from here learned divination in the hill and this one guessed something. When they came in, she wondered what the bohemian foreigners were doing here, these « bobos » would say today. The man was shaking and she was making a huge effort to support him. Like Pierre and Marie Curie, she said to herself. She had seen this in the party newspaper that was hanging over a coffee table. She watched them work, that is, suffer a lot with words like them and she suffered on the surrounding production lines.

She approached when she understood that their efforts were defeated by the enormity of the thought disaster they measured in its fullness.

So she approached them, she allowed herself and told them, without knowing how, not to stop their walk, that she wanted to keep the paper they were working on. That the Proletarians had no history or heritage, they were only made to produce children who would also be workers. That this paper, it was a foundation stone for here. That they could pass it on by living it, telling it. That one day others would understand it, the incorporate.

And they gave him without knowing why, they gave him, finding in this gesture the force necessary to finish it.

She left for New York with the text two days later and left him to die by himself on the Spanish border. In New York, the text was somewhat revamped, slightly watered down; Humans are weakened in 1940. It remains its version of Fire somewhere on the street of Lyon, in the hospitality of the time « taken in rubs » which makes the heritage a prospective process as well as retrospective. In a nutshell the story of the environment.

This almost fiction is based on a real little known fact: it is in Marseille that Walter Benjamin meets his almost cousin Hannah Arendt in the summer of 1940. He handed her his manuscript of « thesis on the Philosophy of history » so that she would give it to Adorno then refugee in New York. And she the vast hospitable woman, it is Faro that allows its appearance and now its existence. It is we here who incorporate the version of Fire remained rue de Lyon. It is through fiction that the Faro collective process undertaken since 1995 in the complexity of the neighbourhoods along the Rue de Lyon is transmitted. I might as well have projected you to the character of Louis Massignon arrived in Marseille on August 2, 1930. It’s also full summer. It is the annual meeting of the « social weeks of France », the SSF created in 1904. The SSF should have been held in Algiers and Marseille is a substitute Algiers. 1930, centenary of colonial Algeria, impossible to live there a meeting entitled: The social problem in the colonies. Louis Massignon, Islamologist, professor at the Collège de France, returned from Algiers, sent for investigation. He made the closing conference of SSF on August 3, 1930. He then left for Paris and began his teaching at Aubervilliers: He joined the urgency of the « social teams » that had just been created and provided education for North African workers in France. I can incorporate her word into the neighborhoods, she is born from their transnational experience. It is important to project itself upside down in international industrialism, in the intuition of never again, in the memory of institutional facts since 1994, in almost 20 years of construction as slow as Europe; This is the genesis of the Faro process. Christine Breton, August 2013

The article "I will sleep in the northern quarters" by Aurélie rash of the school of Journalism and Communication of Aix-Marseille received the third prize Charles Gide of the "best reportage in social economy" of the Cooperative Credit Foundation. This award by a jury of a dozen professionals is aimed at the final year students of the 13 journalism schools recognized by the profession. We have three reasons to thank Aurélie Rash for her article. This award allows a young journalist to have been able to recognize her talent by taking as subject the coopérative of inhabitants Hotel du Nord. Charles Gide was a great defender and theorist of consumer cooperatives (see on Wikipedia: Http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gide). This award promotes a cooperative experience in Marseille. Marseille was both the place of abandonment and cooperative hope. In 1888, it was at the Congress of Marseille that the cooperative expectations arising from the revolution of 1848 were abandoned for the benefit of a part of the single workers [1]; In 1940 it was in Marseille that a workers ' cooperative, the Biscuit Factory "The Golden Fruit" was founded and would work 200 refugees until 1942; It is in Marseille that from 1944 to 1946 that the recommendations of the Resistance Council which advocated the establishment of a "true economic and social democracy" gave rise to an experience of self-management of company unique in France AvecMARseille Entreprises REQuisitionnées: 15,000 workers have thus acceded and participated in the management of 15 companies in Marseille [2].  Finally, it is also in Marseille that the consumer cooperative is reinventing itself with autoparting Provence, Proxi-rickshaw or northern hotel without forgetting recently Fralib where trade unionism reconnects with the cooperative (see article of the world of 18 June 2013 [3]).

I'll sleep in the northern quarters.

Contemplate the Mediterranean, the industrial back-port or the Garrigue, but from the cities. In Marseille, a cooperative created by local residents offers guest rooms in neighbourhoods that are usually not frequented by tourists. The bay window opens onto a terrace bathed in light. The winter-shaving sun cuts the landscape into glittering objects. At a loss of sight, the sea, Majestic and radiant, imposes its immense presence. "The view of the Mediterranean while we are in the northern districts, it always amazes," amuses Virginie Lombard. This Parisian of 49 years has lived for thirteen years in the 15th arrondissement of Marseille. Since last November, she has rented the room from her apartment on the fourth floor of the Cité de la Cabucelle through the Coopérative Hotel du Nord. Some people have made this original initiative two years ago: renting their rooms, in the heart of the cities, to discover the unknown wealth of the Marseille suburbs. The Northern Hotel is one of the first cooperatives in France to give the floor to the inhabitants. The idea was born out of a bet: "It was thought that it was possible to develop an offer of hospitality and market discovery in the northern neighbourhoods and that it would meet a demand," says Prosper Wanner, the manager. This training engineer found himself at the head of a project conceived as early as the years 1990. I met a collective of heritage curators who militated on this territory. A few years ago they had published a manifesto to protest a project to modernize the administration. For them, museums were out of step with the territory they were in, he says. At the time co-manager of a cooperative that accompanies the innovative economic structures, he joined the concept of Hotel North in 2002. They came to ask me how to develop an economy that would involve the inhabitants. We have done internships for the creation of companies, reports on the notions of heritage and economy, attempts at common actions on the ground, etc. Three years later, Europe provides them with a first reference legislative framework: the Faro Convention, which recognises that "every person, alone or in common, has the right to benefit from the cultural heritage and to contribute to its enrichment". If France ignores the text, the town hall of the 15th and 16th arrondissements of Marseille became the first signatory in 2009. Local support that allows the next year to launch five guest rooms in the neighborhoods. In the Face of the success of this test period, the North Hotel Heritage Cooperative is officially set up the following year. Rooms starting from five euros today, the team managed by Prosper Wanner has about 50 members including thirty associates. "A good bunch of motivated," jokes Virginia. This botanist and shared garden host attended the Co-op for six months before becoming a member. "Local artists ' collectives made me know North Hotel a year and a half ago. What interested me was that the tourist, as the inhabitant, discovers by walking all the richness of the neighborhoods! Five months later, she decided to open her room. For Prosper Wanner, the challenge is to make people cross. How to address everyone, knowing that we are in very diverse neighbourhoods in terms of habitats, social categories, etc. ? Another obstacle, legal this time, prevents some tenants from becoming a host. If Virginia, whose property is in co-ownership, can rent his good, the tenants of social habitats are not entitled to it. Being a guest house is likened to subletting, an illegal practice that the cooperative is trying to get accepted. The senator-mayor of the 15th and 16th districts, Samia Ghali, is currently preparing a proposal for a law to ensure that the guest house activity is occasionally possible in social housing. While waiting to expand the accommodation offer, thirty-six rooms in apartments, maisonettes or Bastide houses are already available. Prices, fixed freely by each host, vary between 5 and 160 euros. The Co-op recovers a percentage of 10% on the number of tariffed nights. The rest goes to the hosts. But for Virginie, as for Michèle Rauzier, owner of one of these bastide, the recipe is not the first motivation. "We receive charming people with whom we create links. Some have even become friends. That's my heart. But I don't like to win a little bit of money: a house like that is a real financial chasm! The young retiree by unveiling her property. In a green setting, adjacent to a lighthouse, the large blue-flaped house overlooks the area and offers a wide view of the industrial port. A landscape that can also be admired from the room that Michèle rents. "Don't be too careful, the last host just left, I haven't cleaned up yet," she apologises by arranging the bed of the room with an immaculate white. For this girl of a bar boss, hospitality is second nature. "I get people like I'm getting family, I've always lived like that since I was little," she claims. A welcome that was just as warm for Daniel and Martine Pattin, who have just left the apartment in Virginia after a weekend. "It's a nice surprise, we're very happy. We have already come to Marseille five years ago but this time we did not feel like tourists but rather to be invited, "recounts Martine. It is after discovering North Hotel in a magazine that the couple of Parisians contacted Virginie via the website of the Cooperative. "The interest of this accommodation is really to be inserted into the city, to live the neighbourhood life. But there are also local products, history and heritage memory, which is what makes the difference, "concludes Daniel. Another image of the northern districts develop hospitality in the neighborhoods, it is also to make forget the blackboard that is too often drawn from Marseille, especially in the media: Account settlements related to drug trafficking, theft of jewellery, dirt of The city, etc. We rely on a militant project. The northern neighbourhoods have exciting stories, but they probably remain to write and tell, commented Julie. This member participates in the other flagship activity of the cooperative: The heritage walks, which reveal small corners of paradise close to the concreted neighborhoods. For six euros, we discover massive limestone by climbing through the garrigue, ruins of an ancient Celtic civilization or an unearthing waterfall just two steps away from the cities. To complete these courses, the cooperative, listed in the Guide of the 2013 backpacker, also offers books, stories of hospitality, a dozen local products, including handmade soap, and honey produced in the neighborhoods. Since its creation, Hotel du Nord, which receives financial support from public structures, closes its balance sheets to balance. In two years it generated an overall economic activity of 42 500 euros, of which 20 000 euros of revenue via the rooms. The number of nights has more than tripled and the rides attract more and more amateurs. Today its activity is slowed down by a problem of legal status. Trump France, the agency charged by the State to manage tourism development, does not take into account its cooperative nature and obliges it to make a choice: to call on a travel agency to continue to offer its offers, or to pay the surety to be registered as such. As a cooperative, the North Hotel asks to be recognized as a Solidarity travel agency. A request that Prosper Wanner sent to the Minister of Social economy and solidarity, Benoît Hamon, in mid-April. "If we win, we could sell stays, overnight packages plus strolls, or overnight more work, without going through a travel agency," he hopes. While waiting to settle its legal obstacles, Hotel du Nord does not lose sight of the millions of tourists expected this summer for the year 2013, for which Marseille was designated European Capital of Culture. About twenty walks and a dozen additional rooms are being opened. Aurélie Rash, School of journalism and Communication of Aix-Marseille  

Benoit Hamon, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Economy and Finance, responsible for the social and Solidarity Economy and Consumer Affairs [/caption] minister, we will contact you in your dual capacity as Minister of social Economy and Solidarity and the Minister of Consumer Affairs. Located in the northern suburbs of Marseille, "Hôtel du Nord" is a cooperative created by residents of these districts. It puts in direct contact with tourists and their hosts, inhabitants who make discover their city and their neighbourhood beyond the clichés conveyed, promoting an economy in the interest of those who live, work and live in these neighborhoods. Today, about 50 guests offer guest rooms, urban walks, local works and productions. This offer of cooperative nature has been increasingly successful, particularly with the year Marseille-Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture. Marseille-Provence 2013, the Fondation de France and the local authorities are co-producing this cooperative venture, not forgetting the many supporters of artists, designers, scientists, tourism professionals and inhabitants who benefit The Co-op. The cooperative is advised and recognized by the operators of the tourism and has in-house the professional skills necessary for its activity. Created in 2011, it continues its development and groups of hikers, travel agencies and business committees solicit it for Group offers. Today, the future of the cooperative is threatened by a problem of regulatory interpretation on the articulation between its legal form in co-operative and the nature of its activity. Advantage France, consulted by our insurer Macif, replied that in order to guarantee the safety of consumers, the cooperative had to go through a travel agency or register as a travel agency. Asset France does not take into account the specific co-operatives. It considers the cooperative's members to be mere subcontractors and not co-producers. It makes the cooperative dependent on travel agencies and refuses to recognise its status as a partnership by considering that only the manager as a natural person must be qualified (obligation of registration travel agency). The question you are asked is whether when a cooperative sells the benefits of its members, it is itself a producer, and therefore, in our case, not subject to this obligation that we would like to impose Trump France (article Art. L. 211-3 of the tourism Code). Asset France depends on your ministry like that of the Ministry of Finance that we had asked about it a year ago and who after we have responded favourably, has returned to its decision, for lack of knowledge of the specific cooperatives (we were Advised to make jurisprudence on the subject). Of your department's arbitration depends on the future of our Co-op. We invite you to visit our website Hoteldunord.coop, to come and enjoy our hospitality and we would be happy to welcome you at the European Forum which we co-organise on 12 and 13 September 2013 where Marseille-Provence invites Europe Around the Council of Europe framework Convention on the value of cultural heritage for society. For the Co-op "Hotel du Nord" Prosper Wanner, manager.

Soap made by the SOAP factory of the MIDI in 2009 on the occasion of adherence to the principles of the Faro Convention of the city Council of Marseille 15/16 [/caption] In 2007, the SOAP factory of the MIDI, located in the valley of the Carmelites in the Aygalades, after suffering an act of Vandalism, is in a critical situation. Gilbert Latour, CEO of Chimitex and current member of the Coopérative Hotel du Nord, nevertheless decided to continue the activity of the soap factory. He shares his interest in Marseille soap by organising numerous demonstrations: He opens the soap factory to the public every year during the European heritage days and via the Marseille Soap road project in Marseille; It welcomes the young people accompanied by the ADDAP13 in the framework of the workshops of urban revelation as well as an artist in residence; He actively participates in the Marseille Heritage Commission 15/16;  He supports a work carried out on a soap museum in the soap factory by the students of the School of Architecture of Paris la Villette under the guidance of Véronique Bigo. Gilbert Latour then made the bet to give back to Marseille soap his letters of nobility from the Edict of Colbert in 1688 and a decree of Napoleon I in 1812. The latter gives a specific brand to the Marseille soap made in Marseille: The Pentagon where is marked "olive oil, the name of the manufacturer and that of the city of Marseille". The manufacturing process and the origin are not however protected and the use of animal fats, perfumes or dyes is unfortunately today commonplace. Gilbert Latour decides to put the Pentagon on the agenda on his soaps made in Marseille based on olive oil. He calls on local elected officials.  Valérie Boyer, Member of Parliament for Bouches-du-Rhône, interviewed in 2011 the Ministry of Economy, Finance and industry to "know whether the Edict of Colbert of October 5, 1688 and the decree of Napoleon of December 22, 1812 are part of our positive law." The ministerial response confirms that the decree of December 22, 1812, which you cite still appears in force, although the fines have not been updated. But that "to date, Marseille soap is not protected by any of the devices protecting an appellation of origin or geographical indication." (see question and answer). While article 3 of the Edict of Colbert of October 5, 1688 defines the conditions of manufacture of soap in Provence without any animal fat, that the decree of Napoleon I of December 22, 1812 specifies that the city of Marseille has a mark for its soaps to The olive oil constituted by a Pentagon and two judgments of the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence – that of 28 December 1927, confirmed by the Cour de Cassation on 24 October 1928, and that of 12 November 1928 – stipulate that the name Marseille soap is Known to the public, common in trade and applied to a well-determined product based on vegetable oils [1], certain soap and detergent industries use the name "Marseille soap" on animal fats-based soaps with fragrances and dyes. Thus the manufacturers of the traditional Marseille soap made with 72% vegetable oils and without any animal fat, perfume or dye, are faced with unfair competition from the soap and detergent industries. This situation is also a deception for consumers. Indeed, only the traditional soap recipe of Marseille gives it its hypoallergenic and ecological properties (biodegradable in less than twenty-eight days – OECD method) due to the use of vegetable oils and the absence of additives, Fragrances and dyes. Four soaps still testify to the ninety Mills, located near the streams, or more than four hundred boilers, which will produce one hundred and eighty thousand tons at the beginning of the twentieth century. Hundreds of workers, the "fatigues", fed huge cauldrons where the pasta made of soda and oil was cooked. In 2011, with these three other soap of Bouches-du-Rhône, he founded the Union of soap professionals of Marseille (UPS) to defend, promote and publicize the real soap of Marseille (see the site). The soap of Marseille is at the heart of a proposal for a law of 6 February 2013 to create a device for registering geographical indications for industrial products whose characteristics will be strictly defined by decrees taken after A public enquiry and consultation of directly interested organizations or professional groups. Marie-Arlette Carlotti, Minister Delegate for disabled Persons and the fight against exclusion, visiting the Iron soap factory in February 2013, announced to the UPS that she would support the request to add the Marseille soap to the list of Indications Protected geographical areas (PGI), a proposal already made by the member for Bouches-du-Rhône Valérie Boyer in February 2013 (see the Bill). The Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) is an official European sign of origin and quality which allows to defend geographical names and offers an opportunity to determine the origin of a food product when it derives some of its specificity from This origin. On 12 June 2013, MEPs voted in committee on an extension of protected geographical indications to manufactured products, not just food products, as part of the consumer Bill presented by the Minister-designate For consumption, Benoît Hamon. The Bill entrusts the INPI (National Institute of Intellectual Property) with the task of managing the files of protected geographical indications. To follow… By discovering in particular the walks of the Route du soap of Marseille. Gilbert Latour and Prosper Wanner, April 2013, Misa updated July 2013  

The station consists of a passenger building built in 1851, on the PLM line (Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée) as well as a set of "Art Deco" style annexes with underpass built around 1925. This station is also the starting point of the so-called Blue Coast Line towards the Port of Bouc and Miramas. In the Face of the deterioration of the buildings, the architectural interest of the ensemble and the past and present role of this station, the association "Action Environnement ESTA" (EEA) since 2008 collection of documentation on the station. This research work with various organizations, archives, libraries, journals and individuals continues. Since 2009 the station of the Estae is the central patrimonial element of discoveries, focused on industries, workers ' and bourgeois housing, painters, fishing, viaducts, tunnels, organised by the EEA, within the framework of the European days of Heritage. The association formed a preliminary file attached to its application for protection with the DRAC (Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs), which found it timely at the end of 2011. This request was relayed in the Heritage Committee chaired by the elected to the Culture of the District Council, Pascale Raju who had organized an in situ visit with the Drac. The document Manager DRAC/CRMH wrote and presented the application for protection before the CRPS meeting in the plenary Committee in July 2012, the regional Heritage and Sites Commission (C.R.P.S.), which brings together representatives of The administration, local elected officials, professionals and art historians has issued a favorable opinion the registration order of the station of the estat in respect of the historical Monuments was signed at the end of 2012. The registration or filing procedure The application may be made by an individual, an association, a local community, etc. This request must be supplemented by a dossier containing an administrative component (cadastre, owner..), a historical and descriptive component (Photos plans, archives…) for an assessment of the building. It is submitted to a commission (CRPS) which decides whether to continue the proceedings. Then the services of the DRAC are responsible for the constitution of the file and seek the opinion of the chief architect of the historical monuments, the architect of the buildings of France, the regional curator of the historical monuments. The dossier is submitted to the opinion of the CRPS, this notice is submitted to the prefect of region who takes, if necessary the registration order or transmits the file to the Ministry of Culture for a classification. The protection of historic Monuments, classification or inscription, constitutes an easement following the building and generates a perimeter of visibility of 500m within which any project of construction or alteration of the environment or the building Must be the subject of an opinion of the architect of the buildings of France. In some cases financial assistance can be obtained from the state and a tax exemption is possible for the owner. The association "Action Environnement ESTA" will present, in situ, the station of the Estae within the framework of the European heritage Forum which will be held on 12 and 13 September 2013 at the departmental Archives Gaston Deferre in Marseille. Editorial: Odile RICHARD – Association "Action Environnement esta"

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We continue to put on line the texts of the speakers at the meeting of 2 March 2013 in Venice following the signing of the Faro Convention by the Italian state. Here is the text in English by Alberto Dalessandro, director of the Council of Europe office in Venice, concluding the conference "the framework Convention of the Council of Europe on the value of cultural heritage for society (Faro, 27 October 2005)", Venice, March 1-3, 2013 the Conference on the Framework Convention of the Council of Europe on the value of cultural heritage for society has been a crucial moment to disseminate the principles of the Faro Convention and to profound brainstorm about its potential and its Concrete application. The main aims of the meeting were to identify concrete actions and measures in order to ensure an effective implementation of the specific objectives pursued by the Convention:

1. Promoting the idea of Cultural Heritage not as a goal but as auseful resource for society.
2. Recognizing access and participation to cultural life as a basic human right, as defined in the Universal declaration of human Rights.
3. Broadening the involvement of the civil society throughout the ongoing process of defining and managing cultural heritage.
4. Recognizing the potential for the sustainable development of the Territories, emphasizing the connection between local communities, their cultural heritage and the environment.

The participants recognized at first the need to ensure the dissemination of the principles and values of the Faro Convention at the institutional and political level throughout Europe, in order to ensure the knowledge of the Convention and favour a better Cooperation between different stakeholders in the field of cultural heritage. The need for a deeper understanding of the topics established by the Convention was also stated in order to better define methodologies of its application. This point requires improving national statistical information and creating new measurement tools in order to assure concrete evidence of the contribution of the cultural heritage to human, social and economic development. Moreover The Venetian event was the occasion for sharing experiences and best practices among some of the most important institutional actors and members of the civil society of both national and European level. The debate provided some key issues and concrete proposals that could be the starting point for the development of a virtuous process, the so-called "Venetian process". Following the events promoted by the Council of Europe office in Venice, the "Venetian Process", should be an important laboratory to define innovative participatory and democratic approaches applied to the cultural field (expanding to other policy fields as Tourism or Labor) and develop common practices and strategies both of national and European interest. The first step to be encouraged is the creation of a Venetian focus group defining procedures and tools in close dialogue with the city of Marseille, which offered a practical example of efforts to apply a "Faro approach". The cooperation between the two cities should be intensified taking into consideration the "European Heritage Forum", planned in September 2013. The experience brought by the association "Faro Venezia" raised the awareness about the importance of a widespread engagement of the civil society in the practical actions required. Promoting the diffusion of tools such as the "Heritage Promenade", introduced by the "Faro Venezia" Association, would be an important means to spread the values of the Convention. In close connection with this, awidespread network of local clubs and organizations should be promoted in order to foster the exchange of good practices and ideas between public authorities and civil society. The use of digital technology and social networks should be also encouraged and developed. A debate is open on the creation of a Venetian Heritage Commission, based on the example offered by the city of Marseille. This would be an instrument of public participation in cultural heritage management, between "heritage communities", public authorities and civil society associations. Within the "Heritage Commission" might be arranged special committees concerning key themes identified by the local community. The education and training issues are equally relevant for the development of the "Venetian process", with the aim of a sound implementation of the provisions of the Convention. Considering a previous experience realized in San Servolo Island by the Council of Europe, the creation of a European centre for the Arts, crafts and ancient traditions will be encouraged, in connection with similar European initiatives. A public proposal has been presented by the Marco Polo System Eeig for the Forte Marghera area. The specific objective would be the creation of a European network of Arts and craft training centres. Recognizing the importance of the preservation and knowledge of the traditional craftsmanship and traditions, new concrete actions were explored. The main proposal concerns the creation of inventories to document all the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge and skills embedded in the Venetian region. This initiative, which should be hold directly by local communities, would prevent the threat of disappearance of such richness. Furthermore, a second list was proposed in order to address the recognition of the need to preserve and promote the "local cultural heritage" as it is conceived and identify by each local "heritage community" and which give high value to this specific heritage (which Could be different from the heritage identify by the Minister of Culture or cultural institutions. Both of these inventories provided a relevant instrument of cultural democracy. Recognizing the value and the potential of cultural heritage for human development, cultural diversity and the promotion of intercultural dialogue, the participants furthermore encouraged the creation and the enhancement of a European network of cities to Promote the principles of the Faro Convention. This could end to the realization of as symbolic declaration, the "Venetian Chart" drawing the main guidelines and actions to be taken by municipalities and local communities in order to preserve and put in value their heritage as it is seen from the local community Point of view. The Chart may be a kind of "declaration of intent" creating a network of cities supporting the spread of the principles of the Faro Convention and calling the community to actions for the preservation of their proper cultural heritage to future generations, defining Innovative procedures and methodologies.

We continue to put online the texts of the speakers at the meeting of 2 March 2013 in Venice following the signing of the Faro Convention by the Italian state (see the presentation of the meeting and see the texts already online). Here is the text of the speech of Samia Ghali, Senator Mayor of Marseille, Vice president of Marseille Provence Métropole. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a local elected mayor of the 8th sector of Marseille, which represents about 100 000 inhabitants and is commonly referred to as the "North Quarter". I am also a national elected representative, since I have the honour to sit in the Senate since 2008. The relationship with Europe seems indispensable to me in the exercise of these two mandates. It is absolutely necessary that every time Europe produces a positive idea for the population we put it into action on the ground. What for? Because otherwise Europe will remain unpopular, perceived as an institution at best, useless, at worst harmful. The Faro Convention is a convention which, in its very essence, creates, permits the exercise of citizenship. In fact, allowing everyone to designate their heritage, to value it, is to enable them to act on their environment, to be an actor of their city, and in a certain way, of their life. What for? Because heritage is the story of a building, then of a neighborhood, and then of a human history. In the 15th and 16th arrondissements of Marseille, our heritage is that of the industry, the Port. It is, as a corollary of the Italian, Spanish and North African immigration, and then the whole world. Many historians, sociologists, and other researchers have studied the working world, the functioning of the port, the problems related to immigration, integration, etc. But the words of the very actors of this story where is she? In what space can the inhabitant tell what his neighbourhood is, the human relations, the struggles, the places important to the community to which he belongs. And here I use the term "community" in the sense of a heritage community as defined in the Faro Convention. Namely a group of people who can decide, for example, that an elementary school is part of the common heritage. This is the integrated heritage. For me who are native to these neighborhoods, I know that this is a fundamental issue because it helps restore dignity, our dignity. Nothing less. To say that our history has value, that our territory contains natural wonders (coastline, waterfall, Hill), and architectural and that the best placed to preserve them, to present them, are the inhabitants themselves. That is why I asked for the creation of a heritage Commission as early as September 2008 and ratified the Faro Convention in January 2009. The action of this heritage Committee will be presented to you by Pascale Raju, my elected delegate to the Culture who chairs her. I am proud and happy that this dynamic has inspired three other town halls (two in Marseille and the trolls). I am also honoured to be among you and to play, in a way, the benevolent role of godmother of this Convention. 2013 is the year when Marseille is the European capital of Culture. In September we will be hosting the European Heritage Forum. This will be an opportunity for us to discover our territory through the heritage walks organised by our Commission. Already I invite you there, and you can reside in one of the 50 rooms managed by "Hôtel du Nord", a cooperative born of the Heritage Commission. You will see then that there are times when the political miracle is fulfilled, and that a European convention, can suddenly, change the look on one another, on oneself; Be proud of its past to build the future where everyone finds its place. Thank you. Samia Ghali, Venice, March 2013.