The Exterritory Project

Exterritory Project is an ongoing art project dedicated to encouraging practical and theoretical exploration of ideas concerning extraterritoriality in an interdisciplinary context. Th is project was conceived when we decided to screen a video compilation of works by Middle Eastern artists onto the sails of boats sailing in the extraterritorial waters of the Mediterranean, as a response to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We wished to create an image of art exhibited in a neutral space, unsaturated by any one national precondition. The extraterritorial waters seemed to us a space that could temporally offer the suspension of border regimes. In 2011 the project was recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and was awarded the title of “Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue between Arab and Western Worlds”.

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Looking for Commensality: On Culture, Health, Heritage, and the Mediterranean Diet

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18052605 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

pp. 2605

Author(s):

Francesc-Xavier Medina

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

United Nations ◽

Mediterranean Diet ◽

United Nations Educational ◽

Cultural Organization ◽

Intangible Heritage ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The United Nations

The concept of the Mediterranean Diet has substantially evolved in the last decade and a half. From a model focused uniquely on nutrition and public health, in recent years, and after its registration as Intangible Heritage of the Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), its conception incorporated important elements related to society, culture, and sustainability. In this regard, the use of concepts such as commensality (or conviviality around food, or eating together), linked to a more cultural vision of food, began to be one object of attention. The aim of this article is to reflect on the role of these “new” elements regarding the actual definitions of the Mediterranean diet and, particularly, its relationship with other significant discourses inside this concept, as the preponderant of health, or the emergence of sustainability.

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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300010900 ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 231-236 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Technical Education ◽

Member States ◽

Total Cost ◽

United Nations Educational ◽

Cultural Organization ◽

Special Fund ◽

The United Nations

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its eleventh General Conference in Paris from November 14 to December 15, 1960, under the presidency of Mr. Akale-Work Abte-Wold (Ethiopia). Ninety-eight member states of UNESCO participated in the Conference compared with the 75 that were members in 1958 at the time of the tenth General Conference. The General Conference approved the program of activities for 1961–1962 and unanimously voted a budget of $32,513,228 to finance it; to this amount was added over $12 million provided by the United Nations Technical Assistance Fund to enable UNESCO to carry out many additional educational and scientific projects. UNESCO was also to act as executing agency for seventeen projects concerning higher technical education, for which the UN Special Fund was to provide more than $11 million in 1961–1962. Also allocated by the Conference was $915,000 for the construction of an additional building in Paris, the total cost of which was to be $3,535,000.

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