On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, the students of the Master of Culture and Communication of Avignon University, specialised in Mediation, Museums and Heritage, went to Nyons in La Drôme, accompanied by two of their instructors Laure Roulet and Yannick Hascoet. The objective of this field trip was to fill out 300 questionnaires for the quantitative survey on olive tourism set up within the framework of the OLIVE4ALL project.
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Ethnographic survey in the Alpes de Haute-Provence region (France)
As part of the Olive4all project, the Salagon Museum, as a partner in the project, is organizing an exhibition that will be inaugurated in May 2023. This exhibition will focus on the olive tree and will address different aspects of the culture of this tree, between collective imagination and climate change. Salagon being a departmental museum located in an olive growing region, an ethnographic survey on olive growing in the region was commissioned in order to add local data to this exhibition.
Continue reading Ethnographic survey in the Alpes de Haute-Provence region (France)Symposium ““The actors of the olive tree heritage and their commitment ””
On 30 and 31 May, the participants of the Olive4all project will meet in Kalamata (Greece), for a symposium entitled “The actors of the olive tree heritage and their commitment“.
Within the framework of this conference, we wish to focus more specifically on the social actors Within the framework of this conference, we wish to focus more specifically on the social actors who maintain a privileged link with the olive tree heritage. Our aim is thus to better understand their commitment and the process of awareness and mobilization that from the collective of actors, considered as “stakeholders” linked to the olive tree, become members of a community that claims this heritage, seeking to preserve it to bequeath it to future generations. In this way, we question the privileged link that people have with their heritage.
Three axes will allow us to dialogue on this theme:
- What are the forms of patrimonial commitment?
- Why claim the heritage of the olive tree?
- Who are the actors linked to the olive tree heritage?
Research trip in Kalamata
From 14 to 23 April 2022, two members of the French team, Sylvie Couralet and Julie Deramond, went to Greece to finalise the organisation of the first colloquium planned in the framework of the programme, in Kalamata, from 29 to 31 May 2022.
The stay started with two working sessions with Marinella Katsilieri and several speakers of the conference at the Routes of the Olive Tree. Several meetings were then organised in Kalamata, in order to better know the context of the valorisation of the olive tree heritage in Messinia, and to be able to compare the data between the countries of the programme later on.
Thanks to our colleagues of the Routes of the Olive Tree, we had the chance to meet Panagiotis Katsaris, general director of agricultural research at the Olive Institute, in Kalamata. This passionate researcher presented his laboratory dedicated to olive oil, viticulture and tropical plants. Within the laboratory, the gardens are home to a thousand-year-old olive tree with a diameter of 9 metres, which has seen many generations.
Visit to the Salagon Museum, which will host the exhibition dedicated to the olive tree heritage in 2023
The OLIVE4ALL project includes an important part dedicated to the promotion of the olive tree heritage and to the awareness of the actors and inhabitants who own this heritage. It is planned to design an exhibition dedicated to the olive tree heritage, with a reflection on the different elements of the heritage but also on its hidden sides. This exhibition is produced in close collaboration with the Departmental Museum of Salagon (Mane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France), which will host it from May 2023 to May 2024.
READ MoRE…Julie Faubert’s stay in Avignon, researcher and sound artist
From December 11 to 21, 2021, Julie Faubert, researcher and sound artist from Laval University (Quebec, Canada) came to Provence as part of the Olive4all project. Julie Faubert creates numerous installations and interventions in which sound is an anchor point for the articulation of the body-space relationship. Her research work focuses more specifically on urban sound worlds and their aesthetic, ethical and political stakes, by questioning the presence of the body in public space.
Julie Faubert focused her stay on the collection of sound materials for the future conception of a sound device that will restore the entire chain of operation of the olive oil factory.