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BOLSTERING KNOW-HOW

Know-how often stems from a local tradition, rooted in a terroir, like a tree endemic to a very specific Land.

Know-how is transmitted over generations and time, thanks to improvements made possible by experience and by techniques that are refined, making them more efficient, relevant or useful. Thus, it evolves over the years and takes on a new impetus with each designer who breathes new life into it. The tree thrives, becomes more resistant to the wind, grows new branches.

But the strength of this know-how is also its greatest weakness: it constitutes an immaterial, often invisible heritage, which is only embodied in production and creation. Thus it is only visible, observable in practice. Carpenters can discuss their Art, but only the furniture, the window or the floorboards they have crafted serve their cause and demonstrate by their practical use all the value of this Art. An Art which depends on the preservation of various techniques.

TRANSMITTING IS SHARING

Hence the mediators, the transmitters of know-how constitute the links of a sturdy chain that may break however if the baton is not handed to the next in line. And, once invisible, the know-how may sink into oblivion.

Know-how is often imbued with wisdom and a common sense which has matured over time. Its loss is therefore first a degradation of knowledge, but then of the Art of Life and of the comfort which it helped attain.
Thus the energy to be nurtured drives transmission, shared know-how, to guarantee a sustainable preservation of its multiples embodiments. Each trade safeguards a know-how: farmers, artisans, cooks, etc. All are involved in improving Life, which, moreover, can harmonize with Nature if the natural resources are understood and preserved.

In a society which morphs thanks to technology, would it not make sense and save humanity to always preserve know-how, modernize it and always appreciate its beauty, and above all its benefits?

ACTOR OF THE TRANSMISSION

Each of us at our own level can support, promote, discuss know-how and thus trigger vocations of mediators or apprentices. As when a tree grows on a rich soil, new branches appear and produce leaves that did not exist previously. Each and every one is granted the wonderful opportunity of enabling this fruitful and productive growth.

What about you ? What know-how do you possess or would you like to preserve? What immaterial heritage would you like to pass on to future generations?





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