01 / ORIGIN
Heritage & identity
Recognising the roots, contexts and communities through which cultural knowledge takes shape.
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A cultural heritage and knowledge organisation
Safeguarding living heritage. Connecting knowledge, culture and innovation
Fonte Culture is a Geneva-based non-profit association working to safeguard intangible cultural heritage, support responsible approaches to cultural knowledge and intellectual property, and explore pathways connecting heritage, creativity and innovation.
Our perspective
Culture is not static. It is lived, shared and carried forward.
Living heritage exists through the knowledge, practices, expressions and relationships that people sustain and transmit. Its future depends on respectful safeguarding, meaningful participation and the conditions for knowledge to continue evolving.
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Safeguarding & transmission
Supporting continuity of practices, skills, memories and knowledge across generations.
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Creativity & rights
Considering cultural expression, recognition and intellectual property through responsible approaches.
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Innovation & continuity
Exploring how technology, education and participation can serve living heritage.
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Safeguarding with people, not simply documenting practices.
Cultural heritage and knowledge are sustained by people and communities. Work involving them should consider agency, context, consent, attribution and the right to determine how knowledge is shared.
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Living heritage · shared responsibilityA guiding principle
The future of heritage is not only in what is preserved, but in who can continue to practise, interpret and transmit it.
Areas of work
A connected field of practice.
Our areas of work connect cultural safeguarding with knowledge recognition, responsible rights frameworks and innovation.
01 — HERITAGE
ICH & Safeguarding
Living heritage, community participation, continuity and intergenerational transmission.
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Knowledge & IP
Traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, recognition, rights and responsible licensing.
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Culture & Innovation
Digital heritage, education, creative practice and technology in service of culture.
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