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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