Les jardins collectifs de l’Histoire, ou comment « jardiner la mémoire ». L’expérience de Port-Royal des Champs
This article is an essay which attempts to synthesise historical research and its articulation with participatory initiatives in the field, all in the service of one of France’s major ‘places of memory’, Port-Royal des Champs, the ruins of the thirteenth-century abbey to the south of Paris. The ‘his...
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| Language: | fra |
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Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
2018-12-01
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| Series: | In Situ |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/18714 |
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| Summary: | This article is an essay which attempts to synthesise historical research and its articulation with participatory initiatives in the field, all in the service of one of France’s major ‘places of memory’, Port-Royal des Champs, the ruins of the thirteenth-century abbey to the south of Paris. The ‘historical collective gardens’, also described as ‘heritage gardens’ or even ‘utility gardens’, were first created at the beginning of the present century in the grounds of the farm which is part of the national Port-Royal des Champs museum. The creation of the garden aimed at interpreting and promoting a little-known but nonetheless important facet of the place’s history, using the garden’s potential as a space of cultural mediation and understanding of the heritage. The project is based on the garden’s former utilitarian functions, mingling dimensions of food production, aesthetic delectation and therapeutics. The garden is designed then as a sort of intermediate space between nature and culture, an interdisciplinary centre of social convergence offering a place for meeting, for sharing know-how and different sociabilities. One of the special aspects of this experimental project is its exploratory nature, aimed at demonstrating how the garden itself has a natural capacity to reveal collective memory and heritage awareness. In other words, it is a site where different ways of ‘cultivating’, or ‘gardening’ the memory of the place (‘jardiner la mémoire du lieu’) will be experimented, exploring the role of citizens in expressing a living, shared legacy. |
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| ISSN: | 1630-7305 |