Cultural resilience architecture
Introduction
The cultural footprint[1] is the impact that groups and individuals have on the cultural environment. Understanding culture as the set of knowledge, ideas, traditions and customs that characterize a people, a social class, a time, etc.
Definition elements
Every community, city or society organizes its activities and cultural life according to its background, history, its own cultural forms and its current reality. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes participation in the cultural life of people as a fundamental right and modern societies have structured their intervention in culture based on the structures of the nation State (central, regional and local government) with their specific legislative regulations.[2] The first level of guarantee of cultural right is freedom and participation in cultural life at the individual level. Every person as a citizen tries to satisfy their cultural needs but requires what is social or shared to achieve full realization of their rights and aspirations, which is why complex processes of social structuring occur around culture. The different agents involved based on the actions and implications they have in a given sector, as a social actor affected by the action to be developed. In these dynamics, new fields of joint action will be discovered, considering their oppositions and conflicts as a field of complexity and, above all, diversity.[3].
Culture is not only manifested in physical form, something material that can be exhibited, but there are also many intangible forms. To protect these valuable manifestations of culture. In 2003, UNESCO defined them this way for the first time in the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Within these forms of cultural expressions are oral traditions, festivals, costumes, dance, rituals, theater and even food cultures.
The cultural footprint was defined in June 2013 at the initiative of a group of experts from UNESCO,[4] from the OECD, the International Organization of La Francophonie, French ministries, companies and civil society.
Thus, it was defined as "the set of externalities,[5] positive or negative, generated in the cultural environment by the action of an agent." It is considered positive when it enriches cultural diversity,[6][7] when it favors cultural intensity.[8].
A second reference document published in 2017 points out that “all actors have the possibility of activating the available cultural resources, that is, exploring and exploiting them. At the same time, it is your responsibility to make a positive contribution to this foundation, this creative environment. This means that groups and individuals "impose demands on each other, commit themselves based on their particularities, get involved and invest culturally."