Walser Alps - modernity and tradition in the heart of Europe
The Walser settlements area - a laboratory to experience a post-industrial sustainable Alpine society in a bottom-up process
(WALSER ALPS)
Start date: Jun 30, 2004,
End date: Dec 30, 2007
PROJECT
FINISHED
The minority of Walser settle dispersed over six countries in the heart of Europe. Most of them suffer under economic disadvantage, but have conserved traditional rural knowledge.The Walser Alps project aims to experience - as a pilot action based on the Agenda 21 process - the transfer from a pre-industrial to a sustainable competitive post-industrial society integrating youth.Landscape is the link between, on one hand, spatial development and, on the other hand, culture. Culture is a key feature for minorities to define and defend their characteristics, specificities and sustainability (Agenda 21). Landscape is a concrete, appropriate medium to integrate youth.The method consists of confronting images to let the Walser population face the "mirror" of their own social features. Matching interior and exterior images can raise consciousness to forecast future developments.Those experiences will serve for a spatial planning tool and for an exchange of best practice with other minorities.
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Coordinator
- Rue Cesare Promis, 2a, 11100 Aosta, Italy Aosta (Italy)
10 Partners Participants
- 74660 Vallorcine, France Vallorcine (France)
- Località Capoluogo, 11020 Issime Aosta, Italy Issime (Italy)
- 6685 Bosco Gurin, Switzerland Bosco Gurin (Switzerland)
- 9497 Triesenberg, Liechtenstein Triesenberg (Liechtenstein)
- Alti Gassa 4, 3911 Ried-Brig, Switzerland Ried-Brig (Switzerland)
- Jungfraustrasse 38, 3800 Interlaken, Switzerland Interlaken (Switzerland)
- Via dell'Industria, 28924 Verbania Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy Verbania (Italy)
- Via San Cristoforo, 3, 13100 Vercelli, Italy Vercelli (Italy)
- Walserstraße 104, 6991 Riezlern, Austria Riezlern (Austria)
- 7435 Splügen, Switzerland Splügen (Switzerland)