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Mission

 

Founded in 1992 with the support of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Patrimoine sans frontières (Psf), is dedicated to preserving endangered or neglected cultural heritage sites and issues worldwide and following, for example, crises situations such as natural disasters, war and conflict

 

Patrimoine sans frontières was founded in 1992 by François Bloch-Laîné, a top ranking civil servant renowned for his career in finance, along with a small group of other people including the architect Bertrand Bonnier, press officer Claudine Colin, journalist Frédéric Edelmann and the film-maker Dominique Gros.

It was in 1991 that Mr Bloch-Laîné, who was one of the main organisers of the overall associative humanitarian movement in France, was solicited by Jack Lang, French Minister of Culture at the time, and Christian Dupavillon, Cultural Heritage director, to meet the challenge of a totally innovatory mission: to develop a humanistic and humanitarian dimension to the cause of Cultural Heritage Conservation worldwide.

 

He invited Frédéric Edelmann, one of the founding members of “Aides et Arcat-Sida” to join him in setting up the association Patrimoine sans frontières (Psf), for which he then became the president.
Frédéric Edelmann in turn became president of Patrimoine sans frontières and was succeeded, in 1997, by Béatrice de Durfort.

 

Following diverse appeals from local communities, Psf not only addresses issues of preservation of cultural heritage sites and buildings but also aims to encourage the conveyance of memories, techniques, local expertise and know-how about cultural heritage issues from one generation to another.
Patrimoine sans frontières aim is to encourage the reappropriation of endangered sites and cultural heritage issues, to ensure that they will be properly taken care of by the populations concerned in a pro-active and independent manner.
Thanks to the small and independent nature of our organisation, we are able to rapidly and efficiently intervene in urgent situations whereby sites may be endangered or under imminent threat of disappearance. We are also committed to setting up long-term action programmes for cultural issues worldwide.  

  
Our operation largely depends on the setting up of a network of multidisciplinary and international partners, bringing together private and public services (universities, scientists, financial and political institutions) that we can then mobilise to achieve the best possible collaboration and synergy for all projects concerned.

Acting as the “middleman”, Patrimoine sans frontières responds to appeals from other heritage preservation associations and organisations and puts its network and expertise at their disposal.

 

Our sphere of activity includes: identifying endangered cultural heritage sites and issues, “forgotten” by local institutions and established intervention networks, selecting priority cases, studying the feasibility of each project, elaborating pertinent conservation plans, raising public awareness, fundraising, mobilising a network of partners for a particular project, activating intervention from other organisations, providing advice to other heritage conservation bodies, exchanging “best practices”, setting up exhibitions, co-editing publications…

 

Please note: "Patrimoine sans frontières is a non governmental organisation (Association Law of 1901), independent of all political, religious and economic intervention.”

 

Partners

 

Patrimoine sans frontières would like to thank their partners:

 

National partners:

 

  Architectes des Bâtiments de France (Building architects of France)
  Architectes du Patrimoine (Cultural Heritage architects)
  Association Française d’Action Artistique (French Association of Artistic Action)
  Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine / Institut français d’architecture (French institute of architecture)
 Compagnie des Architectes en chef des Monuments Historiques (Company of Head Architects of Historical Monuments)
  Groupement National d’Entreprises de Restauration des Monuments Historiques

(National Group of Historical Monument Resoration companies)
  Institut National du Patrimoine (National Heritage Institute)
  French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  French Ministry of Culture and Communication, International Affairs department, Architecture and Heritage department
  French Ministry of National Education
  French Ministry of Equipment for Transport and Tourism,Towns and Territories, Developping cities
  The Order of Architects
  The city of Paris ...

 

Associations and Foundations :

 

  Africa Presence
  The Friends of UNESCO
  Architectes Sans Frontières (Architects without frontiers)
  Association des Centres Culturels de Rencontre (Association of Cultural Meeting Centres)
  Association de Protection des Sites et Anciennes Demeures du Liban (APSAD)

(Association for the protection of ancient sites and residences of  Lebanon)
  Caravansérail
  Casamémoire
  Centre d’Architecture
  Arc-en-Rêve
  CEPN
  CICAT
  Confluences
  CraTerre
  Équilibre
  Etudiants en Architecture de Sarajevo (ASA) (Architecture students of Sarajevo)
  FERT
  FNASSEM
  The Aga Khan foundation
  Fondation René Seydoux pour la Méditerranée (The René Seydoux Foundation for the Mediterranean)
  J. Paul Getty Trust
  Jeunesse et Patrimoine (Youth and Cultural Heritage)
  Leon Battista Alberti
  Maïs International
  Médecins du Monde
  PARTIR
  PICTOR
  SPPEF
  Traditions pour Demain
  TranSverses
  Union Rempart
  World Monuments Fund ®Robert Wilson Challenge
  World Monuments Fund in Britain ®Headley Fund...

 

International organisations:

 

  Agence Européenne de Reconstruction (European Reconstruction Agency)
  Association Internationale des Villes Reconstruites (International Association for Reconstructed Cities)
  Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona
  European Commission
  Council of Europe
  International Law 90
  Europa Nostra
  Icomos
  ICOM
  ICCROM
  Ethnological museum of Valencia
  PNUD
  Solidarités
  Survival International
  UNESCO
  European Union
  International Union of Architects
  York University
  UNMIK...

 

Private companies:

 

  AFP photo
  Arcelor
  Archimedia
  Art graphique et patrimoine
  Entreprise Quélin
  Franck VOGEL (photographer for PSF)
  Hermès International
  In Extenso - Préservation des Biens culturels (Preservation of cultural objects)
  Sarl Tati
  SipaPress

 

We would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our private sponsors and patrons without whom Patrimoine sans frontières could not exist. If you would like your name to appear in this section, please contact us accordingly.

 

Board of Directors

 

 

  Office

• Béatrice de Durfort, président of Psf
  Chief Representative of the French Centre of Foundations

• Saïd Zulficar, vice-président
  Consultant for UNESCO

• Adrien Goetz, secrétaire général
  

  Conference leader, and writer

• Stéphane Baudé, trésorier
  Consultant

• Martin Bonnichon, trésorier adjoint
  

  French Ministry of Finance

  Board of Directors

• Jean-Pierre Bady
  Expert - Court of Accounts
• Delphine Borione
  

  Cultural expert for the French Embassy in Italy

• François Chaslin
  Journalist for Radio France Culture, architecture specialist
  Biography
• Michel Clément
  Director of Cultural Heritage and Architecture, French Ministry of Culture and Communication
• Eric Danel
  

  Company director – “Manufacture des Oeillets”

• Frédéric Edelmann
  

  Journalist - Le Monde

• Véronique de Folin
  Jurist
• Geneviève Gallot
  Director of the French National Heritage Institute
• Dominique Gros
  

  Documentary film-maker

• Christine Lair
  

  Director de la “Manufacture des Oeillets”

• Fiona Meadows
  Architect, programme coordinator, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
• Stéphane Plisson
  Architect
• Philippe Sainteny
  

  Advisor to the president of Radio France International, journalist

• Anne Schuchmann
  

Director of the creative and research department, French National Audiovisual Institute

• Jade Tabet
  Architect, expert for the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO
  Biography

 

Overseas Correspondants to the Board of Directors

• Sultan Barakat
  

  York University, Great Britain

• Jon Calame
  Minerva Partners, Inc., New-York, E.U.
• Joseph Ramoneda
  

  Centre of Contemporay Culture of Barcelona, Spain

• Irénée Scalbert
  

  Architect teacher London, Great Britain

Psf team

Patrimoine sans frontières is an independent organisation.
Human resources: 19 administrators - 2 employees.

 

Since the creation of the association in 1992:

212 members, 183 donors,132 voluntary workers, 38 work experience trainees.

 

Chief Representative:
  Mireille Smeets

 

Vice-Chief Representative:

Hélène Hassoun

 

Current team of other staff members present in Psf’s offices:
  Claire Ceccon  (Albania programme)
  Laurence Lepetit (General Issues)
  Anastasia Varashylava (Belarus programme)

 

Permanent volunteers for Patrimoine sans frontières:
  Marion Doublet
  Nadine Mokdad
  Magali Mermet
  Hubert Desrues
  Judi Sharwood

  Nathalie Dauphin-Jacob

 

Volunteers abroad:

  Julie de Lantivy (in Lebanon)

 

Webmaster:
  Matthieu Labenelle

 

Graphic identity:
  Sophie Raynal
  Boris Petrovitch Njegosh

 

Annual report

Download the annual report 2004(French version only) pdf 620ko.

Download the annual report 2003 (French Version only), pdf 704ko.

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