Schist Heritage Network- Røros Project
An international project between the Schist Villages Network and the Røros Museum, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Norway.
The project, applied and approved under the EEA Grants financial mechanism, practice a careful conservation, maintaining and repairing of houses in several Schist Villages through the development of workshops with Norwegian and Portuguese craftsmen in a constant transfer of knowledge.
The first phase of the project occurred in November 2008 with 4 workshops covering 3 villages.
Human capital
(knowledge; heritage; people & crafts)
People are the key factor for sustainable development. They are the carriers of local knowledge, guardians of history & heritage, and it is through their skills and motivation that sustainable development can be achieved.
In our travelling through the region we met many people, most of them were old, some were young and only a few of them were children. With this declining population in mind we felt it urgent to capture and document the knowledge of the individuals that are disappearing in the villages every moment. However their knowledge is only one aspect of sustainable development in this region it is equally important to not let the strength and motivation of these people escape.
Community Houses- Casas da Floresta (Forest Houses)
Since 10 years Pinus Verde (Association for the sustainable development of the forest) develops a project centered in the main element of the ADX territory: the forest.
The concept or meaning of Forest is taken in its full cycle and richness. The first objective was to promote the protection of the forest through projects and teams of guards having an integrated approach to the forest.
An approach considering that the forest is also a place of people and cultural traditions to support. Therefore the social action towards the human qualification has been a main strategy.
All this community houses have a thematic; educational and touristy perspective, but they were created essentially to preserve the local traditions and crafts that are related to the forest.
A forest where mushrooms grow; bees produce honey; women weave the linen and men play the Bombo.
Water and Energy
Registeration of the remnants of old agrarian facilities such as derelict graining mills (moinhos) and olive oil mills (lagares) and the flow water around them. While doing this we mostly reflected and thought about the vitality, or the force of the water and the possibilities of using this renewable energy source through the renovation and re-application of the old Moinhos and Lagares.
