In these columns first , then in the three parliamentary hearings that preceded the resolution calling for the withdrawal of the two decrees linked to the Charter. I am a cultural heritage professional. No notable names, however, to defend the charter , except for all nine Sicilian superintendents. But did anyone really expect otherwise? And even the favorable Antonio Tarasco , executive of the Ministry of Culture formerly MiBACT , who spoke at the hearing, however, in his capacity as president of Sic, Society for Cultural Engineering, ends up awarding points to the opposite front.
It is enough just to apply those, abundant ones, that are there. Beyond the nuances and individual accents placed on the various critical issues, all the professional associations committed to the protection of art historians, archaeologists, conservators, cataloguers and all the professionalism of those working in the sector, whether they are employed in public agencies or freelance: these decrees are a devolution in the system of public management of cultural heritage and a hymn to the employment of highly qualified labor at zero cost.
That he was thinking of Ana, National Association of Archaeologists? Different is the case, on the other hand, of the systematic and large-scale action envisaged by the Charter which was certainly not written to train students, it is best to remember , for which the scarce human resources in the hands of the superintendencies could not guarantee that oversight at all.
These are, precisely, non-decontextualized goods! So they are not the subject of this legislation. Between the statements we have already collected in previous articles and the new interventions, the list of contradictions and shortcomings becomes truly impressive.
But it is enough to explain why the resolution approved in the Commission, by M5S, Pd and Cento Passi, commits the councillor to withdraw the decrees altogether, rather than try his hand, as he also proposed, at patching a dress that has already come out of the tailoring shop torn. It is precisely the conception of repositories that presides over them, and more generally of heritage, and its purposes that requires a radical rethinking than the deterrent one delivered to this new legislation.
