Who should be involved in safeguarding heritage?
- Produced by
- Asociatia Perseidele
- Authors
- Marioara Pascu, Ileana Patru- Stupariu
Video examples
Tradition won't survive past two generations of neglect
Participants in the HEART project discuss how intangible heritage can be lost even though the tangible objects remain, if there are no people passing on the intangible knowledge related to those objects.
Victoria Ghilas — artist's spokesperson
For more than 20 years, folk artist Victoria Ghilas has been painting furniture in the traditional Transylvanian Saxon style. An artist with a complex artistic portfolio. Let's listen to her!
Visit to the workshop of Mobilapictata.ro
We visit the Mobilapictat.ro workshop in Cisnadioara, where carpenters work wood and painters give it color. From their hands comes the painted furniture, an old popular tradition of the Transylvanian Saxons.
The responsibility for conserving, protecting and safeguarding heritage, whether tangible or intangible, lies primarily with:
- Specialised international organisations which have created a series of conventions and recommendations.
- The national states and public authorities on whose territory the cultural goods are located are obliged by law to protect, safeguard and preserve the heritage whether it is of national, regional or local importance.
- The community — it directly inherits the heritage of past generations, it also contributes to its perpetuation, it actively participates in the improvement of this heritage by adding its own experience, by introducing modern elements into the traditional composition and structure, resulting in a heritage as valuable as the inherited one because it also integrates their vision, philosophy and work. The community creates the "bridges" between the modern and the traditional and plays an important role in the formation of the contemporary/modern heritage. We focus on the role of community-based art in safeguarding intangible heritage.
Watch the attached videos to see HEART participants discussing the role of people in safeguarding heritage.