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REPORT. THE CIIC 2003 ANNUAL MEETINGAccording
to what had been announced, the CIIC held its annual meeting on
October 29 and 30 (Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe). 1. Participants: 1.
Officers:
Members
excused:
2.
CIIC information and reports
It
is reminded that the CIIC members are kept regularly informed on its
activities by means of circular letters, reports and the documentation
included on its website. This year the CIIC has elaborated three
reports. Two of them were distributed in February and in May this year.
Following the request made by the present Vice-president in charge of
the ISC’s of ICOMOS, a third report was prepared according to his
instructions in view of the meeting of presidents of ISC’s
held in Victoria Falls on October 27 this year (see
attachment n.1). 3.
The CIIC website and publications.
The
CIIC website includes different sections (1. Statutes, 2. Elections
and Committee’s Officers, 3. Members, 4. Background, 5. Activities,
6. News, 7. Documents, 8. Inventory Records,
9. Library, 10. Links and 11. Contacts). All the conclusions of
the scientific meetings held by the CIIC can be consulted on section
6. The last book published by the CIIC with the proceedings of
previous conferences and seminars (mainly that held in Pamplona in
2001) has been entirely included on the section devoted to “Library”.
This section is open to other publications and a new section can be
devoted to scientific contributions from our members.
4.
Steps towards a general understanding of the conceptual and
substantive aspects of Cultural Routes.
Following the recommendation presented by the CIIC to the 13th General Assembly, a Task Force composed by the President and the Vice-Presidents of the CIIC met at the end of May in Madrid. They were also accompanied by a short group of experts on cultural routes that represented on equitable basis the different regions of the world. The selection of these experts was made taking into account their past contribution to the development of conceptual and doctrinal aspects referred to this specific category of cultural heritage. As it was announced in the second report sent to all the CIIC members this year, the aim of this workshop was to precise the formal definition of cultural routes and other related aspects for general understanding. The conclusions, which follow entirely those elaborated by the CIIC in its scientific seminars, can be seen at the CIIC website under the title “News” and were presented at this meeting in Zimbabwe. It was also announced that they are been considered in order to enrich the text of the WH Convention’s guidelines which is under revision.5.
Preliminary ideas for the elaboration of a Charter on Cultural Routes.
According
to the CIIC programme guidelines for the present triennium, the CIIC
should elaborate a draft of a Charter on Cultural Routes. This draft
should presumably be ready so as to be circulated in 2004. It was
therefore agreed the establishment of a Task Force who should work on
this field. Those who have made especially important contributions to
the development of conceptual and doctrinal aspects during the past
years shall necessarily integrate this group. Also, in order to ensure
the participation of experts from all the continents and to keep the
number of them within reasonable limits- so that their task is really
efficient – the following members shall integrate this specific Task
Force: President: María Rosa Suárez-Inclán;
General Coordinators: Guy Masson and Francisco Javier López
Morales; AFRICA: Abderrahman Chorfi; Dosso Sindou; Edward
Matenga; AMERICA. Tamara Blanes; Alberto Martorell; Carlos Pernaut;
EUROPE: Sofia Avgerinou-Kolonias; Todor Krestev; Ron van Oers; ASIA-PACIFIC:
Kunie Sugio; Samitha Manawadu; Sandy Blair. Even though it does
not seem reasonable to surpass the limit of 12 members, any member
wishing to participate on this effort is cordially invited to propose
his/her candidature. In any case, the CIIC Board of Directors shall
take the definitive decision on this item. Independently of that, all
the CIIC members have been invited to re-read the doctrinal documents
elaborated by the CIIC (all of them are available in our website) and
to send their suggestions for the draft of this Charter. A first
approach to this question was presented and discussed at Victoria
Falls (see attachment n. 2), and once the first draft is ready
it shall be submitted to consideration of all the CIIC members.
6.
Research Centres on Cultural Routes
It
was announced the creation of a high level research centre at the
Polytechnic University of Madrid. Steps have also been undertaken for
the establishment of a centre devoted to fortifications related to
cultural routes in Peñíscola (Castellón).
7.
CIIC meetings in 2004
Following
the call made to all members last February for hosting the meetings of
the CIIC in the present triennium, several suggestions were received.
Focusing in 2004, the suggestion made by Cecilia Calderon, from Mexico,
seemed to be the one offering more possibilities. As expected, she
informed on the progress already made and it was agreed to hold a
meeting in Chihuahua in spring 2004. Another meeting will probably
take place in Peñíscola.
8.
Member’s activities
All
members had been requested to describe their activities in the field
of cultural routes during the present year. Not many of them have sent
a report, though there is quite a considerable number of experts that
have worked hard on filling the CIIC inventory records related to
different cultural routes.
The
President reminds that all the CIIC members are expected to be active
on carrying out some activities in their country and doing some
research work in accordance with the programme approved for the
present triennium. This specially means preparing the pre-inventory of
cultural routes in their region, by filling the specific inventory
records that, in accordance with the agreements taken in previous
meetings, have been elaborated by our colleagues and published on the
CIIC website (www.icomos-ciic-org).
It
is agreed that the CIIC Vice-presidents and their assistants shall
help to identify and promote at least a main cultural route per
continent and fill the “identification” and “promotion” forms,
as well as the appropriate specific ones, all of which can be found in
the CIIC website. There are some areas where important projects have
been undertaken, like the “Camino Real Intercontinental”-the
intercontinental royal path-between Europe and America which also
extends its way up to Asia, the “Quebrada de Humahuaca” (this is
but a small part of the former one and also of the “Inca’s path”,
both of which have other really outstanding parts that deserve to be
identified and promoted as a priority), besides other projects. In
Europe there is the “Camino de Santiago”- the Saint Jacques Route-
and research work has also been carried out in Malta (pilgrim’s
routes and fortifications), Greece, other countries in East Southern
Europe, etc. Yet, some important routes for the historic development
of Europe like the Roman ones are still ignored. With respect to
Africa and Asia, independently of the work done on the field of
fortifications which was presented to the CIIC congress held in Ibiza
in 1999, and other interesting contributions also presented to the
CIIC scientific meetings by its members, there is not a main project
which is being developed by using the above referred inventory records.
There are outstanding cultural routes in both Asia and Africa that
deserve to be studied by the CIIC experts. This aim is very important
taken into account that cultural routes shall be one of the two topics
of the 15th General
Assembly of ICOMOS in China.
It is also agreed that membership shall be submitted to revision next year so that those who do not make any contribution to the CIIC work shall loose their condition of member.According
to the CIIC Statutes, at the beginning of this year those voting
members who were appointed for the last term (1999-2002) were required
to confirm their
appointment for the present one (2003-2005 second term) and most of
them were confirmed by their national committee. With respect to those
members who had never attended a CIIC meeting (or not so for the last
3 years) without excusing their participation for due cause the CIIC
asked directly their National Committee to nominate a new voting
member if they wished to do so. Only three National Committees gave an
answer so that two new voting members and one associate member were
proposed.
For the rest of them, as there was not a positive answer from
their national committee, their names were deleted from the CIIC list
of members. Other proposals for new members have been received during
the present year and were taken into account at the annual meeting
held in Victoria Falls, with the following result: New
members admitted:
As voting members:
As associate members: 1.
Pedro de Manuel (Spain) 2.
Elena Ramos (Paraguay) 3.
Alfredo Conti (Argentina) 4.
Angela Rojas (Cuba) 5.
María Claudia Romero (Colombia) 6.
Simon Makuvaza (Zimbabwe) 7.
Ruth Shady (Peru) 8.
Ileana
Vásquez (Venezuela) 9.
Olabiyi Yai (Benin) 10.
Member’s directory
As usual, the list of the CIIC members was updated in the first part of this year. All members are requested to communicate any change on their data. Mr. Marouani, from Mauritania, has finally sent his new email address, and Mr. Matenga, from Zimbabwe, is kindly asked to do the same.11.
Information on the RecorDim project
At the request of Guy Masson, the CIIC Vice-president for America, his Canadian colleague Robin Letellier, who is the international co-ordinator of the RecorDim initiative, was invited to make a short presentation of this project (see attachment n.3).12. Acknowledgment
In
closing, the members expressed the Committee’s thanks to ICOMOS
Zimbabwe for hosting the General Assembly and for their hospitality.
There being no further business, the annual meeting of the committee was adjourned.Victoria
Falls. Zimbabwe
30
October 2003
María
Rosa Suárez-Inclán
President
of the ICOMOS CIIC
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