Since its creation in 2017, the Citizens of Heritage Prize “Annie and Régis Neyret” created by the City of Lyon aims to reward original initiatives by individuals or associations in the service of safeguarding and enhancing heritage. Lyons. This year, he distinguishes the Water association in Lyon and the Cornish pump for having carried out a remarkable work of safeguarding and popularizing science on the hydraulic heritage of Lyon. Along with this association, three “coup de coeur” prizes were awarded to three other candidates: an original card game, a book on the Duchère district or the underground scene in Lyon, all of which promote Lyon’s heritage.
Grand Jury Prize (prize of €4,000)
Les Cahiers de Saint-Clair: publications on Lyon’s water supply and sanitation from Roman times to the present day
By the association L’Eau à Lyon and the Cornwall pump
The association L’Eau à Lyon and the Cornouailles pump manages the extraordinary site of the former Saint-Clair waterworks in Caluire-et-Cuire, made available by the Métropole de Lyon. Volunteers and enthusiasts highlight the history of water supply in the Lyon conurbation from Antiquity to the present day. At the same time, the association publishes the magazine “Les Cahiers de Saint-Clair”.
Their actions of mediation and promotion of the association are adapted to each type of public. The association undertakes restoration projects for the facilities and objects entrusted to it with a view to heritage conservation. As for its journals, they are the tool for disseminating high quality scientific work centered on the history of hydraulics in Lyon.
More information on the website of the association L’Eau à Lyon and the Cornwall pump
The three “coup de coeur” prizes (each endowed with €2,000)
“La Duchère, a story in the future”
By Libel Editions
The Éditions lyonnaises Libel offer richly illustrated and ambitious books often oriented on Lyon’s heritage. The book, written by Philippe Dufieux and Pierre Gras, is no exception to this rule by making us (re)discover the little-known history of the Duchère district. Through enlightening and passionate analysis of the history of this district, these two historians of the city and of architecture demonstrate the value of the architectural and urban heritage that constitutes this large complex of the Duchère district, an example of the modernity of the late 1950s.
More information on the Libel Editions website
“Bistanclak, Game of Gones”
By Bistanclak Culture
For the first time, the Citizen of Heritage prize rewards a game. This original card game for children from 6 years old, offers a fun and unique heritage experience through a game of the 7 families revisited in Lyon. It thus promotes the nine districts of Lyon through 6 themes: a place, a personality, an expression, an element of gastronomy, an invention and a building. Created by an urban planner and historian from Lyon, this game is aimed at young and old alike, to fill up on unusual facts about Lyon’s heritage while having fun!
“Scratch: Portraits & stories of the underground music scene in Lyon, 1980-2020”
By the association Barbe à Pop
How to speak of a recent and immaterial heritage? This is the challenge that the Barbe à Pop association has decided to take up in its book “A l’ tear: Portraits & stories of the underground music scene in Lyon, 1980-2020”. A work nourished by research and collections (memoirs, posters, programmes, etc.) retracing the history of underground music in Lyon over the last four decades, an unknown part of Lyon’s musical heritage.
Published for the first time in 2021, then a second time in 2022, this book covering an important part of Lyon’s musical history has met with great success! Co-written by around sixty actors from the Lyon conurbation, this publication is the result of a long process of historical and iconographic research. The many reproductions of posters and flyers invite the reader to (re)immerse themselves in this era and this underground universe.
More information on the website of the association Barbe à Pop
In total, 17 projects were awarded by the jury chaired by Sylvain Godinot, Deputy Mayor of Lyon in charge of Ecological Transition and Heritage and composed of: Louis Faivre d’Arcier, Director of the Municipal Archives of Lyon; Philippe Lamy, urban heritage referent – Urban Planning Department of the City of Lyon; Danièle Martin, vice-president of the Renaissance du Vieux Lyon association; Marie-Blanche Potte, Deputy Regional Curator of Historical Monuments – Regional Department of Cultural Affairs Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; Cécilia Prudhomme, director of Visit Lyon! – ONLYLYON Tourism and Conventions; Didier Repellin, heritage architect, former chief architect of Historic Monuments.
These heritage experts were attentive to the quality of the projects and wished to distinguish the transmission of know-how and memory, as well as the participative, civic and partnership dimension.
2023-05-24 11:58:42
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