© Fouille Pfäffikon-Burg 1997

The European Day on heritage that will take place on September 8 and 9 and this year, will focus on wood, its numerous uses, as fuel or as raw material.

Since time immemorial, man benefits from trees: wood provides heat as fuel, as construction material for buildings, bridges or boats and is used to make numerous everyday objects – for example, furniture – since the dawn of civilization. Today, its versatility is still surprising: who is aware that the wood is hidden under the form of one of its chemical derivatives, in orange juice, ice cream, pharmaceutical tablets, even in the photos of our vacations?

The NIKE Center has convinced several selected partners to join this 14th Day on heritage: the Swiss Association of master-carpenters and furniture manufacturers of ASMFM, the Federation of Swiss Architects FAS, LIgnum – Swiss economy of wood, as well as the federal Office of environment OFEV.

Together, the numerous partners of the heritage Day, as every year, try to make these two days of September a special experience, offering the public numerous occasions to face testimonies of the cultural importance of wood, in multiple contexts, whether wood objects found in archaeological excavations of the lacustrine Neolithic towns and the age of bronze, technique of the Dendronology , wood buildings of the alpine area or the Renaissance of wood construction that can to be seen in Swiss architecture nowadays.

05.- Cultural Heritage