Asociaciones por la educación y socialización del patrimonio en el ámbito rural

Abstract

The Group S.O.S. Heritage is a group of research and development of the University of Seville (Hum 673) that dedicates its efforts to the investigation as for Conservation and Restoration of cultural heritage. One of his lines of work is know better the agents who make possible the transmission of the patrimonial legacy to the future generations. In this respect we have realized numerous projects and publications on the professionals, fundamentally conservators and restaurators. With this poster, the group advances and raises a new reality, the participative and active action of the groups of citizens who, tied to the associations, transmit to the community his worries and guard over the natural and cultural heritage, turning into his cultural agents. With this motive, in collaboration with a group of associations, the group realizes the first Meeting of Associations for the protection of the local heritage, which takes place in Rota on May 25, 2013. In the meeting fourteen associations took part, and it had the institutional support (university, town hall) and the participation of citizens, students and investigators. The aim, therefore, of the poster is to present images that there will contribute the members of the group of investigation and that were showed in the first meeting, turning concerning the labor that they realize. The associations for the protection of the heritage are non-profit-making institutions that defend in his bylaws as fundamental aims the defense of the natural and cultural heritage of the peoples. With this end, they design strategies, activities and all kinds of programs (playful, educatives, of restoration, etc.) that make possible the transmission to the future generations. They are organisms composed by citizens and therefore persons who form a social network or a project of socialization. His area of action develops so much in the rural as urban heritage, in the area of the material thing as the immaterial thing. His worries are projected in the archaeological heritage or the monumental heritage, but also in the popular heritage, dealing for popularly, the rural and nearby thing to the citizen, since the associations defend and recognize the heritage that they relate to his own identity.