24 YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF ROMANIAN HERITAGE AND COMMUNITIES
Celebrate Romanian Heritage at our London Festival!

Celebrate Romanian Heritage at our London Festival!

Fundatia ADEPT & Pro Patrimonio invite you to a

ROMANIAN FESTIVAL

The Romanian Cultural Institute

1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PH

 

Tuesday 21st January 2025 at 6pm

Fundatia ADEPT 20th Anniversary

Exhibition private view: British Painters in Transylvania

Talk by Dr John Akeroyd: Transylvania’s Flowers & Countryside

Reception with Romanian food & wine

&

Wednesday 22nd January 2025 at 6pm

Pro Patrimonio 25th Anniversary

Live in concert: Alexandru Tomescu & Dragos Ilie

Talk by Jeremy Musson: The Role of Beauty in Cultural Heritage & Conservation

Reception with Romanian food & wine

 

RSVP:

Link to register for ADEPT reception (21.01.25) – donations invited

Link to tickets for Pro Patrimonio reception (22.01.25) – £25

 

The exhibition will be open on Wednesday 22nd January 10am – 3pm then continue, week days only,

2pm – 4pm, until Tuesday 4th February 2025

Brochure_Romanian festival 2025

Participation in the European project UREHERIT, Rozdil, Lviv  region, Ukraine

Participation in the European project UREHERIT, Rozdil, Lviv region, Ukraine

July, 28th – August 11th, 2024, Rozdil

Pro Patrimonio Foundation participated in August in the UREHERIT program where more than 50 Ukrainian and Romanian volunteers were involved in conservation works at the Lanckoronski-Rzewuski Palace in Rozdil, Lviv region, Ukraine.

The educational program and conservation works took place within the framework of the International Heritage Summer School organized in the framework of the European project UREHERIT by two of the 11 consortium partners – Ro3kvit: Urban Coalition for Ukraine and Romanian Order of Architects (OAR) – with the involvement of Heritage UA, Building Ukraine Together BUR, Pro Patrimonio Foundation, Monumentum Association / Ambulance for Monuments and Studio Govora.

From July 28th to August 11th, 2024, in the village of Rozdil, Lviv region, a Ukrainian-Romanian heritage volunteer camp took place. More than 50 volunteers – students of architecture and cultural studies, members of renowned heritage NGOs and experts from both countries contributed to the educational program and on-site interventions. The focus was on testing different participatory methods and actions for heritage protection and recovery.

On behalf of Pro Patrimonio, architect Raluca Munteanu came back with overwhelming impressions after two weeks spent at the summer school: „I accepted the invitation of the OAR to participate in the workshop in Ukraine, together with colleagues from Ambulance for Monuments and Studio Govora, in order to share Pro Patrimonio’s experience of intervening on historic buildings and working with and educating young people. This time I was the one who learned. I learned from the young volunteers the determination and resilience to get involved and to hope for a normal world, to rebuild both communities and buildings, so brutally, inhumanly and absurdly destroyed. Their resolute spirit and courage have been an inspiration to us, and the two weeks have left behind spaces that the local community is now already using. In times of hardship, the value of these spaces is much greater, because they help to strengthen cohesion. I thank my Ukrainian friends for the lessons learned and my friends and colleagues here with whom I have worked side by side.”

You can learn more about this ambitious program in the detailed material prepared by the Romanian Order of Architects, partner of this project, link here

Cycle Patrimoine – 3rd edition. Romania’s spa and thermal heritage: past and future.

Cycle Patrimoine – 3rd edition. Romania’s spa and thermal heritage: past and future.

Paris, September 18th 2024

On September 18, ICR Paris and Pro Patrimonio France invite you to discover Herculane Baths, Govora Baths, Câmpulung and the Romanian Black Sea coast, remarkable places in Romania. The exhibition provides an overview of this thermal and spa heritage, situating it in the European landscape, while offering an insight into the processes involved in its conservation, preservation and enhancement. The exhibition will include documents, photographs, archival and contemporary short films, case studies and examples of good practice. 

Curated by Caroline d’Assay, President of Pro Patrimonio France, with the collaboration of two heritage architects working in France, Alina Jornea-Tataru and Paul Stancioiu, this exhibition is part of the third edition of the ICR Paris Cycle Patrimoine program, focusing on the role of civil society in safeguarding and capitalizing Romanian heritage.

The event is part of the European Heritage Days, September 21-22, 2024. Details here 

Opening: September 18th, 2024, 19.30 o’clock

Conference: September 18th, 2024, 19.00 o’clock

Exhibition: September 18th– November 5th, 2024; Monday-Friday 10:00-18:00

The exhibition is open on Saturday, September 21st, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, on the occasion of European Heritage Days 2024.

Macadam Gallery, Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 rue de l’Exposition 75007 Paris, France

Free entry.

Exhibition panels

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How was the 4th edition of Concerts on Siret

How was the 4th edition of Concerts on Siret

Interviu Radio România Muzical

Constantly with us over the years, Radio Romania Music presents the developments, needs and achievements we have at the George Enescu House in Mihăileni. And this year too, in a wide-ranging interview conducted by Ariadna Ene-Iliescu with pianist Raluca Știrbăț, the picture of this moment is presented, which you can discover below. 

”The president of the International Society „George Enescu” in Vienna, pianist Raluca Știrbăț, is also the initiator of the project to save Enescu’s house in Mihăileni. She recently spoke to our colleague Ariadna Ene-Iliescu about the „Concerts on Siret” festival:

„Concerts on the Siret” is an annual event, which aims to integrate the „George Enescu” House in Mihăileni into the cultural and educational circuit in the area and nationally. What is the current state of the house in Mihăileni?

Radio Romania Music has always supported us, even from the first days of the campaign to save the house. We had a small problem, so to say, a problem that unfortunately is common in more and more old houses made of clay, stone or brick, a fungus, a biological attack, but we will solve it. We hope to get rid of this by the fall. Of course, we still need some money, so all donations to the „Pro Patrimonio” Foundation are welcome. This year we marked Enescu Day on August 19 with a blue and red „supermoon” and an exceptional ensemble of children from Havârna playing folk games and music, but the concerts are being held at the „Miclescu” Manor House in Călinești and the „Moruzi” Manor House in Vârful Câmpului. We already had a very nice concert on Wednesday – a recital of arias and lieder, I also sang a solo, but the „focus” was on the exceptional soprano Tehmine Schaeffer, who came especially from Vienna. And on Sunday – the final concert of the young masterclass participants. Also, in September there will be another concert at the „Moruzi” mansion in Vârful Câmpului, a concert by the „PlaCello” Ensemble, also from Bucharest, with Răzvan Suma, Ștefan Cazacu, Mircea Marian and Ella Bokor, four cellists with a very beautiful program.

Between August 17-25 you are mentoring a young generation of pianists, as you said, students from music colleges in Botoșani, Suceava, Iași, Bacău, Piatra-Neamț and Bucharest. How do you go about working with these trainee performers?

The number 9 seems to have become the magic number in our masterclass, because we start at 9 and finish at 9 and we work about nine hours a day. Unlike other courses, I do the courses the way I like to do them, so that each child has one hour of class every day, so seven hours on paper which works out well towards eight to nine hours. We mainly work on new programs that they are just figuring out now in the summer for next year, but we also work on a concert piece that they already have well worked on from the previous year.

What kind of audience do the events in the „Concerts on the Siret” series have?

We are very happy that the audience is getting bigger and more varied. There are also people from the local area, who enjoy it tremendously. We have a lot of music lovers from Botoșani, Iași, Bacău, Piatra-Neamț, and the audience is getting bigger every year. This is already our fourth edition and we hope to grow over time.

What future plans are there for the „George Enescu” house from Mihăileni?

The house in Mihăileni will simply be a living place, a place where music is made and not just music, but also music education, a wide variety of activities dedicated to young people and children in the area – from painting to theatre, crafts. The „Pro Patrimonio” Foundation and the „Maria” Association, and I must also mention the „Dream Horses” Association, are basically the initiators, partners and supporters of these projects. They are very much involved. When the work to eliminate this biological attack is finished, the activities will continue without interruption. It is also a home where one can live, write, compose and create very well and with great inspiration. It is a place where various musical residencies have already taken place, so musicians have lived there – a string quartet. I would like to organize a small symposium in the future, maybe, or in the same way, residencies in other fields – in literature or architecture… because it’s a place that really charges you up!”


Concerts on the Siret 4th edition in images

19th August 2024 public event held in the courtyard of the George Enescu House in Mihăileni 

Folk dance ensemble „Zorile Havârna”. Coordinator – Ionel Roboschi, Choreographer – Narcis Fediuc

Vocal group „Armonia” of the secondary school „Ioan Cernat”, Havârna. Coord. – prof. Roberta Mihalciuc, prof. Ciprian Ignat

August, 17-25 Masterclass held by pianist Raluca Știrbăț at Miclescu Manor, Călinești, Bt

August 21, 19:00 o’clock Recital of arias and lieder

Tehmine Schaeffer – soprano (Vienna) and Raluca Știrbăț – piano at Miclescu Manor, Călinești, Bt, Sala din Deal 

August 25th, 18:00 o’clock Concert of young pianists participating in the Masterclass, students of music colleges from Botoșani, Suceava, Iași, Bacău, Piatra-Neamț and Bucharest, Miclescu Manor, Călinești, Bt, Sala din Deal

Theodora Epuran, Narcis Artenie, Bianca Andreea Havîrneanu, Luca Cirstean, Ruxandra Blandu, George Taranu, Alexandra Mariţencu Caia

 

Images and video: Raluca Ştirbăţ archive

Initiators: Pro Patrimonio Foundation, Maria Association, Internationale George Enescu Gesellschaft Wien, Dream Horses. Partners: Bucecea City Hall, Elsaco, PlaCello. Sponsors: Egger, Ideograf, Cella Cosimex SRL.

Photo: Florin Timofte

September 16th, 17:00 o’clock, Moruzi Manor, Vârfu Câmpului, Bt

PlaCello Ensemble: Răzvan Suma, Ella Bokor, Ștefan Cazacu, Mircea Marian. Special guest: Natsumi Kuboyama (piano, JPN). On the program works by: Haendel, Charpentier, Haydn, Schumann, Rossini, Popper, Shostakovich.

Lecture by PhD. Remus Tanasă, researcher Institute of History “A.D. Xenopol”, Iași

Images and recordings of this concert that defied the dark rain clouds and delighted the audience in the courtyard of the Moruzi Manor can be found in the article by Mrs. Florentina Toniţa for Botoşani News, photo/video: Botoșani News / Florin Timofte

Patru violonceliști români și o pianistă din Japonia în curtea Conacului Moruzi, o poveste despre arta care unește! (Foto, Video)

Câteva gânduri despre Enescu – the lecture given by PhD. Remus Tanasă, researcher at the Institute of History “A.D. Xenopol” Iași, at the end of the concert at the Moruzi Manor.

 

If you want to know more about the events and the needs of the Enescu House, you can visit

Enescu House in Mihăileni on its third life

 

DONATE FOR ENESCU HOUSE

Details and images from previous editions of Concerts on Siret:

Concerte pe Siret, ediţia a IV-a, 17-25 august 2024

Concerte pe Siret. Concert final Masterclass, 22 august 2023. Călinești, Sala din Deal.

Concerte pe Siret, ediția a III-a

Cum a fost la Concerte pe Siret, ediţia a II-a

Cum a fost la „Concerte pe Siret” ediţia I

„Concerte pe Siret”. 140 de ani de la nașterea lui George Enescu

Manifesto for the heritage protection in Romania

Manifesto for the heritage protection in Romania

The European Cultural Heritage Summit is the annual gathering of Europe’s cultural heritage stakeholders. It is organised by Europa Nostraa pan-European federation of heritage NGO’s, which counts some 250 member organisations together with more than 100 associate organizations, representing 5 million citizens. Every year, in addition to the flagship European Heritage Awards Ceremony, the summit includes a meeting on European public policies in the field of cultural heritage. Every year, Europa Nostra undertakes to debate and then draw public policy guidelines for the European institutions. This year, the theme of the meeting was quality principles in heritage conservationemphasising the need for clear frameworks of action to ensure quality results in cultural heritage practice at European level.

The Romanian organizations active in relation with Europa Nostra, at the initiative of Pro Patrimonio Foundation and the Romanian Order of Architects, have mobilized for the first time in a very large number – over 60 organizations – to produce a manifesto related to cultural heritage in Romania. An important argument are the new mandates starting this year at all administrative levels in Romania. It is also an important moment for a synchronized action with Europa Nostra to communicate the expectations of Romanian civil society concerned and active in the protection of cultural heritage to the Romanian decision makers.

The conclusion emerged from the discussions that took place on Saturday, October 5, 2024, when non-governmental organizations and professionals involved in cultural heritage preservation gathered for the first time in Bucharest, in a round table, on the margins of the European Cultural Heritage Summit on October 6-8, to discuss the experiences they had in their projects and to agree on common priorities for action for the protection of cultural heritage in Romania.

The demands and priority principles for action were included in a Manifesto for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Romania, which was presented in its final form at the Public Policy Agora, which took place during the European Cultural Heritage Summit on Tuesday, October 8.

Acknowledging that:

  1. Heritage is a natural part of citizens’ daily life;
  2. Heritage defines the cultural identity and collective memory of communities;
  3. Heritage is a valuable economic resource, contributing to the creation of a large number of direct and indirect lucrative jobs;
  4. Heritage is a factor for sustainable urban development in the context of resilience to the climate crisis;
  5. Heritage is a fundamental factor for culture and education;

Civil society in Romania calls on the central and local public administration authorities to urgently implement a plan consisting of five actions, which will contribute to the improvement of the framework for the protection and capitalization of Romanian heritage:

  1. Adopt and apply European quality standards in cultural heritage practice, in all public and private initiatives and programs.
  2. Include environmental and cultural heritage impact assessments in the evaluation of the opportunity to demolish existing buildings.
  3. Drive an interdisciplinary and international working group to revise and update design standards for seismic protection and energy efficiency improvement for heritage buildings.
  4. Make a pilot project on sustainable urban development through heritage (industrial, spa, etc.) conservation and capitalization as an example of best practices with national impact.
  5. Implement a pilot project centered on a heritage trade school in international cooperation

 

Signatory organizations and people concerned in cultural heritage

1           Asociația CasApold

2           Fundația Biserici Fortificate

3           Fundația Pro Patrimonio

4           Asociația Biserici Înlemnite

5           Asociația Artis Peritia

6           Kraft Campus

7           Art Conservation Support (ACS)

8           Nod Makerspace

9           Asociația Front la Dunăre

10         Asociatia Ivan Patzaichin Mila 23

11         Human Made Art/ Cronicari Digitali

12         Universitatea Națională de Arte-București

13         112Patrimoniu – GL Patrimoniu al OAR București

14         Asociația Youth Vision for Society

15         Asociatia ARA – Arhitectura. Restaurare. Arheologie

16         Grupul Civic Piața Veche Craiova

17         Asociația GEYC

18         Asociația 37

19         Rafinăria la prezent

20         DE-A ARHITECTURA, SYAA ARHITECTURA, CUMULUS

21         Asociația Pro Noviodunum

22         Asociația Gaspar, Baltasar & Melchiror/Școala de la Piscu

23         Asociația Ideilagram

24         Asociația Unda Verde

25         Librariile Cărturești

26         Raluca Chițimia

27         MKBT: Make Better

28         Asociația Re:Rise

29         Asociația Profesională a Urbaniștilor din România (APUR)

30         Asociația Studio Zona

31         Asociatia Maria

32         Asociatia Monumentum/Ambulanta pentru monumente

33         Asociatia Inima Olteniei

34         Asociația ARHAIC / Ambulanța pentru Monumente Sălaj

35         Asociatia ACTUM

36         Asociatia De-a Arhitectura

37         ATU – asociația pentru tranziție urbană

38         Zero Positive Architecture SRL

39         Baza. Deschidem orașul

40         Asociatia Rosia Montan in Patrimoniul Mondial

41         Asociația culturală Aici A Stat

42         Asociația Laborator Zero Pozitiv Oradea

43         Asociația Petrus Italus Trust- Alianța pentru patrimoniul bistrițean

44         Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Optolectronica INOE 2000

45         Bogdan Simona-Loredana

46         Timișoara verde-albastră

47         UAUIM, OAR, DOCOMOMO_ROMANIA

48         Fundația Mihai Eminescu Trust

49         ICOMOS – Comitetul Național Român

50         Atelierul de Patrimoniu

51         Asociația Tri

52         Asociația ARTA în dialog (UrbanEye Film Festival)

53         ArhipeisajStudio.srl

54         Asociatia Salvati Conacul Zarifopol

55         Asociația pentru Arheologie Industrială – AIR

56         Studiogovora

57         Rencontres du Patrimoine Europe-Roumanie

58         Asociația Culturală „Patrimoniu pentru Viitor”

59         Asociația de Dezvoltare Intercomunitara Zona Metropolitana Bucuresti (ADIZMB)

60         ARCEN

61         Uniunea Arhitectilor din Romania

62         Ordinul Arhitecților din România

63         Revista Arhitectura

64         Asociația Prin Banat

65         Asociatia Locus / HerculaneProject

66         Nod Makerspace

67         Asociatia EDUCATIE , ARTA , ECOLOGIE

68         Asociatia Istoria Artei

 

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Enescu House in Mihăileni on its third life

Enescu House in Mihăileni on its third life

July 2024

After a year of intense efforts, the George Enescu House in Mihăileni has overcome the most difficult phase. The biological report prepared by Mrs. Ionela Melinte, a biologist, certifies that the works to eliminate the Merulius lacrymans fungus were correctly approached and that the house is now biologically sanitized. The interventions were carried out carefully and with small steps in order not to risk spreading the contamination, but also to prevent major damage to the structural frame. We thank our donors and sponsors, without whom these works would not have been possible: Egger Group, Dedeman, EchitArt, Elsaco.

In spite of the maintenance and landscaping works with drains, soakaways, vertical systematization and ventilation of the underground spaces, the humidity in the cellar persists. Because this excessive humidity cannot be controlled naturally, we are in talks with BioDry to use high-performance mechanical dehumidification solutions.

Work is currently concentrating on re-finishing to make the house welcoming and ready for activities. Interior and exterior plaster, stoves and floors are being redone. The work also partially affected the electrical wiring. While the lighting has been conserved since the start of the work, the entire socket network has been dismantled in order to be able to carry out work on the foundations, plinth and floors. This now needs to be redone.

The estimated cost for all these activities to complete and reopen the house is around 25 000 Euro.

 

DONATE TO ENESCU HOUSE

Since it was introduced to the public and educational projects have gradually started to take place in or in connection with the George Enescu House in Mihăileni, it has proved to be a real catalyst. More than just a heritage object, it is what generates strong links for local communities on the left bank of the upper Siret, a revived local identity, a renewed interest in the stories of place and the cultural landscape of the river, open access to culture and music education, sound study and traditional crafts.

In parallel with these efforts to restore and maintain the Enescu House, the George Enescu Academy of Music and Sound Studies in Mihăileni was established, functioning as a center of excellence in the study of classical music. Children from the Moldavian region have been attracted to the Academy, giving them the chance to get a quality education in a cultural environment that combines memorial and music education.

Every summer, hands-on experiential and creative education workshops are organized in which children from Mihăleni take part, this year the heritage education component is called „The Heritage Kit and Caravan – Houses and Communities Working Together” and is being carried out with monthly activities, kits and workshops in five communities where Pro Patrimonio has restoration interventions.

Pro Patrimonio’s involvement over the years has been done without State involvement, through private donations, cultural projects and volunteering. Once the consolidation and restoration work on the building is completed, the use of the house will be directed towards education and research, with a preponderance in the field of music and in the interest of future generations.


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Un proiect simbol pentru comunitatea locală

O ciupercă dăunătoare afectează lemnul Casei George Enescu din Mihăileni. Intervenţii de urgenţă.
Concerte pe Siret. Concert final Masterclass, 22 august 2023. Călinești, Sala din Deal.

Concerte pe Siret, ediția a III-a

Eliminarea umezelii la Casa George Enescu. Şantier sub observaţie.

 

BERECHET MAP

BERECHET MAP

Exploration map for the architectural heritage of Câmpulung Muscel, through the numerous works of the architect Dimitrie Ionescu-Berechet.

The map was designed during the organization of the Festival celebrating the cultural and natural heritage of the city “3 Doors, 3 Countries” and was used many times by the children’s community of the city. It invites locals and visitors alike for a leisurely 2-4 hour stroll with history and whets the appetite for intimate knowledge of the place and the people who lived and live in it.

Author: Andreea Machidon

Education for Heritage Programme gets a new graphic identity

Education for Heritage Programme gets a new graphic identity

June 2024

For ten years now, Pro Patrimonio houses and places have been actively and constantly opening up to nearby youth communities through programmes of exploration and creative use of local resources, through direct reference to the heritage object. The houses have been, in turn, photographic subjects, „characters” in animated films made by the children, disguised as models, games, story points on cultural trails in the village and the city, the subject and index of a very wide and varied range of creative and practical activities. They have become the context for meeting and forming communities, an opportunity to relate to a model from the past to help us shape a better future.

Enough has gathered around this process that we decided it was time to add to the basic ideas – heritage house and children exploring through play – a visual identity that will accompany the kits and caravans in the field from now on. All these years, „Education for Heritage” has proved to be an identity programme of the Pro Patrimonio Foundation, as a role model, which has crept persistently into all the projects carried out. It needed a brand and we are glad that this has happened now that the programme is celebrating its 10th  anniversary.

We thank the Creionetica team for accompanying us graphically with understanding and empathy throughout the project „Heritage Kit and Caravan – Houses and Communities Working Together”.

Also, as part of this project, we also included a product designed by the Education for Heritage Programme Coordinator, architect Andreea Machidon. It is the „Exploration Map of Câmpulung Muscel, Berechet Map”. It is now available in the „Useful” section of the Pro Patrimonio Foundation website. The Berechet Map was created during the organization of the festival celebrating the cultural and natural heritage of Câmpulung Muscel – „3 Doors, 3 Countries” – and used on many occasions by the children community of the city. It invites locals and visitors alike to take a leisurely stroll and works up the appetite for getting to know the place and the people who have lived there.

Download Berechet Map

 „Heritage Kit and Caravan – Houses and Communities Working Together” is a project realized by Pro Patrimonio Foundation, supported by the Romanian Order of Architects Stamp Tax and co-financed by AFCN, with the support of UiPath Foundation.

 

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Heritage Kit and Caravan. Preparations.

Heritage Kit and Caravan. Preparations.

May 2024

In these first months of work for the heritage education project for this year, work is going on under the surface to produce the materials with which trainers and children will explore the Enescu House in Mihăileni,Botoșani county; Country House Viscri 18, Viscri,Brasov county; Golescu Villa, Câmpulung Muscel Town, Argeș county; Neamțu Mansion, Olari village,Olt county; the Church of Urși,Vâlcea county and another surprise house. Ideas and ways to spark children’s imagination emerge from team discussions.

We wonder, for example, what people, sounds or stories have clothed the heritage buildings chosen for the six kits for children? Aristocratic families, bankers and important politicians of their times passed by Golescu Villa in Câmpulung Muscel, the Neamțu Mansion in Olari or the P.P. Carp Mansion in Țibănești. We shall find out how the Saxons arrived in Viscri, how the Church of Urși is still inhabited by angelic figures and which musical personalities have been with George Enescu at the Memorial House in Mihăileni.

At the same time, we ask ourselves about our roots and try to build our own family tree.

Our friends are our extended family and we try to use the monthly meetings to shape and define as best and creatively as possible the community of work and play that will form around the kits and the Heritage Caravan, starting in August this summer.

Our Caravan defines and weaves together the network of historic homes and communities in which the Foundation works. In the caravan, some of the core team and a team of experienced volunteers set out for a total of about 20 days in the fall to five destinations of exploration and play spread out in places steeped in history.

Each host home and garden opens to an audience comprising mainly of children for two days with exhibits, specific workshops, prize contests, culinary tastings, and movie night.

 

“Heritage Kit and Caravan – Houses and Communities Working Together” is a project realized by Pro Patrimonio Foundation, supported by the Romanian Order of Architects Stamp Tax and co-financed by AFCN, with the support of UiPath Foundation.

The Heritage Kit and Caravan – Houses and Communities Working Together

The Heritage Kit and Caravan – Houses and Communities Working Together

For a year and a half, from the beginning of 2024 until June 2025, the Heritage Education program has been enriched with more workstations and offers 125 children from rural areas and beyond the opportunity to learn directly through experimentation and creativity about the heritage of architecture, local memory and identity, nature, buildings, relationships between people and cultural values.

The project entitled “Heritage Kit and Caravan – Houses and Communities Working Together” has two components that have proven over years to be very important: remote interventions through heritage kits and on-site interventions through workshops, camps and community days within the heritage caravan.

25 children from 5 communities in different counties (Botoșani, Brașov, Argeș, Vâlcea and Olt) will form mixed working groups with a local coordinator, they will meet  twice a month for six months to work together on the stories of six emblematic heritage buildings in Romania (with at least one example from their own neighborhood). The stories received in the pack will be complemented by numerous practical challenges that question and challenge the groups of children to rethink life in the community, the nearby natural setting and the individual spaces they use in relation to examples of good practice received and then constructed by themselves.

The first six examples of kits tell the stories of: the Enescu House in Mihăileni, Botoșani county; Viscri 18 peasant house, Viscri, Brasov county; the Golescu Villa, town of Câmpulung Muscel, Argeș county; Neamțu Manor, Olari village, Olt county; Urși Church, Vâlcea county and a surprise house.

Each kit pack dedicated to one of the six places contains: an interactive exploration booklet of the house, a slice of the large map puzzle of Romania, a pop-up construction and the house itself that lights up.

The caravan is designed for direct interaction. It brings together project coordinators and trained trainers for two successive camp sessions and community days in all five Pro Patrimonio communities. Workshops, cultural, sporting and culinary competitions, exhibitions and film evenings will invite both children involved in the program and curious and eager family members to participate.

 

 

The kits, camps and community days aim to be an engaging cultural product, demonstrating that the collaborative heritage stories of architects, designers, historians and environmental specialists can work together in an understandable educational package and generate ideas and solutions for creative development and the enhancement of quality life for individuals and groups, using existing cultural resources in innovative ways.

The camps and community days at the end of the project give us the opportunity to generate a sense of belonging to a community and instill the idea that the power to change lies in one’s own hands.

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Over the last ten years, through its trans-annual and interdisciplinary “Education for Heritage” program, the Pro Patrimonio Foundation has been promoting education of and for heritage wherever the Foundation physically intervenes.

The over 40 workshops initiated by Pro Patrimonio in these years are mainly aimed at children aged 7-14 years old, in vulnerable situations in the communities where the foundation carries out projects for the rescue, conservation and rehabilitation of architectural heritage (Golescu Villa in Câmpulung, Neamțu Manor in Olari, Perticari-Davila Manor in Argeș, George Enescu House in Mihăileni, etc.).

The activities are organized annually in the form of practical workshops and aim to educate and teach directly, through experimentation and creativity, about architectural heritage, local memory and identity, nature, buildings, relationships between people and cultural values. Projects such as “3 Doors, 3 Countries Festival” (2018), “The Heritage Caravan” (2019), “Enescu House Days” (2020), “School of Landscape, Art and Sound” (2021), “My Village Story” (2022), the “Heritage in a Package “ kit series and numerous one-off actions in the sites where we work, have shaped and consolidated over time a functional working strategy.

“Heritage Kit and Caravan – Houses and Communities Working Together” is a project realized by Pro Patrimonio Foundation, supported by the Romanian Order of Architects Stamp Tax and co-financed by AFCN.

Tablou activitati The Heritage Kit and Caravan – Houses and Communities Working Together

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