Sharing our commons

The cohesion of Corsican society is based on commonalities, an art of living in towns, villages and territories. The construction of these commons is consubstantial with the In situ or the place: the attachment to the community is above all a visceral link to the land but also to rites and ancestral traditions. From then on, the common can also be seen as restrictive, where permeability with the outside world, the exogenous or elsewhere, is sometimes difficult to establish: the question of migration remains an important social issue in Corsica. The common is also embodied in the sharing of a language in its own right, which also opens up to the entire Romanesque basin.

Thus, the application for the European Capital of Culture label will explore this powerful and singular dimension of the "commons" that make sense in the contemporary world, which is constantly searching for the "social link" and the "living together" that is sometimes difficult to achieve.

Several questions may be asked of the bid: How can the bid integrate people living in Corsica with an immigrant background? How can the bid promote the creation of a multilingual public space? How can the bid make this specificity a strength in its social and civic life by developing its language transmission and learning systems? And beyond that, what place will be given during the candidacy to interventions in the public space or to art outside the walls? How can we create a more inclusive society around these commonalities?

How can we promote the social and political integration of a population with diverse origins, made up of successive moments of immigration?