Egypt's Living Heritage: Community Engagement in Re-Creating the Past

“埃及的活遗产：重建过去的社区参与”探索并促进了当地社区与他们的遗产的参与，通过艺术的部署，特别有效地传播了有形文物、建筑和环境中无形固有的价值和意义。它选择了历史悠久的开罗地区作为案例研究，与历史悠久的开罗城市更新项目（由联合国教科文组织-世界文化遗产委员会于2010年启动）相结合，以多维方式解决过去和现在之间的界面。知识分子研究的动机是关于过去的什么在现在继续，以及过去的生活传播是如何受到影响的问题，这将通过汇集英国和埃及学者和艺术从业者的研讨会以及与此调查相关的纪录片的放映来探索。在此基础上，实践研究将涉及社区通过口述历史和专业工作室策划他们自己的手工和创意产品，以及随之而来的文化记忆和遗产。传统的方法将与更多的实验方法相结合，因为历史开罗的工作社区和来自埃及和英国的当代视觉艺术家，音乐家和作家将聚集在一起，以创建一个论坛，分享技能和想法，首先是一个展览，进一步的目标是产生新的创业形式，从而增加收入机会。此外，将通过分析与埃及神话、民间故事和文学有关的梦来探索开罗的心理地理，并将通过一部短片传播。该项目将有助于实现传统与当代、过去的流行文化与现在的流行文化和青年文化、埃及文化遗产与国际接受者之间的联系，其产出包括出版物和内部人士的遗产地图。在这一系列活动的过程中，将形成新的文化、社会和知识网络，以建立一个新的研究中心，并通过社区参与持续保护遗产。

'Egypt's Living Heritage: Community Engagement in Re-Creating the Past' explores and promotes the engagement of local communities with their heritage through the deployment of the arts as particularly effective in the transmission of the values and meanings that intangibly inhere in tangible artifacts, architecture and environments. It selects as its case study the area of Historic Cairo, in tandem with the Urban Regeneration project for Historic Cairo (launched by UNESCO-WHC in 2010), in order to address the interface between past and present in multi-dimensional ways. The intellectual research is motivated by questions of what of the past continues in the present and of how the living transmission of the past is effected, as will be explored through workshops bringing together UK and Egyptian scholars and arts practitioners and through the screening of documentaries pertinent to this enquiry. Building on this basis, research by practice will involve communities in the curating of their own artisanal and creative products, together with the cultural memories and legacies attendant on these, through both oral history and specialist ateliers. Conventional approaches will be combined with more experimental methods as the working communities of Historic Cairo and contemporary visual artists, musicians and writers from Egypt and the UK will be brought together in order to create a forum for the sharing of skills and ideas towards, in the first instance, an exhibition, with the further aim of generating new forms of entrepreneurship leading to increased revenue opportunities. In addition, the psycho-geography of Cairo will be explored through the analysis of dreams in relation to Egyptian myths, folk tales and literature as will be disseminated through a short film. The project will serve to realize connections between the traditional and contemporary, between the popular culture of the past and the popular and youth cultures of the present, and between Egyptian cultural heritage and international recipients, with outputs including publications and an insiders' heritage map. In the process of this range of activities, new cultural, social and intellectual networks will be formed towards the establishment of a new research centre and the ongoing preservation of heritage through community engagement.