Making walls talk
Our interlocutor is surprised, however, that our buildings are so little promoted. He mentions, for example, the Musée de Mahébourg, whose architectural qualities are not addressed, even though they are just as interesting as the content presented in the exhibition halls.
During the course, the expert covered international heritage protection mechanisms, world heritage status, town planning regulations, architectural typologies, from the most modest dry-stone wall to the most extravagant castles, stone-cutting techniques, the uses of sheet metal and the assembly of building plants, as well as the art of documenting all this heritage to international standards.
The participants were then to pass on their findings to the technical teams of the various organizations concerned, with a view to carrying out complete inventories of the heritage.
The time will then come to promote this heritage, with possible new applications for Unesco classification… “With its basalt stalls covered in slate in places, the market in Port Louis has an immaterial and material value as strong, in my opinion, as Aapravasi Ghat. With its basalt stalls covered in slate in places, the Port Louis market has as much intangible and tangible value, in my view, as Aapravasi Ghat. Port Louis still has potential, especially in China town, which still retains its cachet… ”
