SoCultures October 2018

SoCultures October 2018
French heritage initiative is reviving
India & France
Chandan Nagar in West Bengal, through crowd funding, we together develop
solutions, once developed, it can be transformed into a beautiful property and it can
transform your lives as tourists will throng the place to admire, to visit the bygone
eras., to stay in the heritage properties.
We wish to replicate the same model in other parts of India also. We are involving
students who we advise to watch, listen, learn and say, “Oh! It’s a simple
model…we can implement everywhere.” Dr Bertrand is very optimistic about
several solutions to save our heritage.
Some steps taken in this direction -
o A two-layer contest was conducted for mobilizing students (8-12 and 13-16
year-olds) from eighty schools, raising the awareness of the young public in
India.
o A collaborative project between Indian and French schools of architecture,
involving Chandan Nagar inhabitants, where students work on a case-study
to restore one of the city’s heritage buildings, the Registry Building;
o A crowd-funding campaign which hopes to trigger many more similar
initiatives and lead to the complete restoration of Chandan Nagar, making it
a template to be replicated elsewhere in India
http://www.ifindia.in/know-your-indo-french-heritage
Textile Revivals:
As textiles are rich with traditions, history and heritage…
“Lots of traditional skills are vanishing and sadly, some are close to become
extinct. The textile always exists with new opportunities with patterns,
trends and techniques; we are also promoting Meghalaya fibre based new
fabric called Ramie. The hand-crafted Ramie (fiber crop used for fabric
production) is crated with Darjeeling rice paper, along with Eri silk yarn
from Jharkhand. Ramie was grown for the first time in Meghalaya last year.
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