Salernes,un siècle de métiers : la Terre

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Welcome to A.B.D. / Salernes

From scientific concepts...

...to very concrete ideas and applications

A.B.D. : Archi-BIO-development aims at scientific popularization and spreading of basic notions connected with the conditions of life on Earth as far as the environment, housing and nutrition are concerned...

Archi comes from the Greek arkeim "to order". Thus, the Greek prefix Arch or Archi contains the idea of hierarchical superiority and Bio coming from the Greek Bios means "life". On the other hand, Development means giving to a specific field of application its full extent.

What is said through A.B.D. must first of all contribute to better conditions of living, to the full blossoming of each human being as well as to his longevity to enable him to live the more naturally and the longer possible in good health.

The complete report of one of the recent lectures given by Doctor Pierre PLAT, at Salernes in Var South France) is precisely presented in such spirit. Its subject is in keeping with a salutary objective for mankind in the field of healthy building with, especially, the use of natural material like earth to reach this profitable purpose.

SALERNES 2000 :

«A Century of Trades : the EARTH»

THE CONSERVATORY OF ARTS AND CRAFTS

Time passes away, things disappear, memories die, documents are destroyed, gestures fade away... and human patrimony -made of living riches- escape future generations.

To prevent such erosion :

Partners such as : the General Conseil of Var, the Regional Conseil PACA ( Centre of Documentation), the Chamber of Crafts of Var, the Town of Salernes, the Museum of Arts and Traditions of Provence, the bank "Credit Agricole Provence-Côte d'Azur", the Chamber of Tilers-Mosaîsts of Var (CAPEB 83), the Art Workshops of France, the "SEMA", the "CAUE" and the daily paper "Var Matin Nice Matin",

Associations : "Earth of Salernes", "Ceramists of Salernes", "Earth of Provence",

have conceived an ambitions plan : shed new light on the crafts of nowadays and those of the past.

A Century of Crafts :

the EARTH

Biological building &

"EARTH" material,

by Doctor Pierre P L A T,

Doctor in medicine and Emeritus biologist of the University

This speech was delivered at Salernes, in the frame of the gatherings about the retrospective operation «A Century of Crafts : the Earth», organized with the participation of the Association Sports-Culture-Loisure (A.S.C.L.) of the Chamber of Crafts of Var at La Valette-Toulon and the Town Council of Salernes, a city specialised in the working with clay for ages in Provence.