23 YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF ROMANIAN HERITAGE AND COMMUNITIES
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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.
„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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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.
