This deeply intercultural project aims at knowledge sharing and creating access to innovative solutions using the transformative role of religious heritage. The idea is to cause important and enduring changes in the territories of northern and southern Europe, focusing on two rural regions in Europe with an Atlantic outlook: Alentejo (southern-hinterland Portugal) and Vestland (western Norway).
transHERITAGE concerns the relevance of the (re)construction of collective memory and identity. The pretext is the sacred space. Community – across a process of intercultural research linking two geographically distant places – is called to valorize religious heritage. Torrão is asked to understand the meaning of a circuit of buildings and a legacy of memories in a new context, with a new vision.
This potentially groundbreaking action-research revolves around three main activities: KNOWLEDGE creation and sharing; heritage community ENGAGEMENT; PROJECTION of i) new possibilities for the religious heritage through co-creation workshops, and ii) results, with a final conference and exhibition. It brings together the knowledge and research of the national partners ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and the University of Bergen and the on-site experience of the local partners – TARS, Civil Parish of Torrão, the Diocese of Bjørgvin in the Church of Norway, and Fana prosti (deanery).
transHERITAGE has been funded by EEA Grants Portugal through the Bilateral Fund. For CONVENTO DA TERRA, it is a both effective and inspiring way to associate the redemption of urban memory to an innovative perspective on integrative culture-driven urbanism. It ultimately intends to renew rural communities’ connection to sacred space(s).
PROJECTION | transHERITAGE
MORNING
AQUI
10:00 – 10:30
transHERITAGE: Early evidences from an ongoing process
Rolando Volzone and Justin Kroesen
10:30 – 11:00
Torrão today
Carlos Bragança and other guests
Moderators | Laura Pomesano | Mário Câmara Caeiro
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00
Insights from Fana (Norway)
Jan Ove Fjelltveit | Trygve Nesse | Justin Kroesen
Moderators | Sofia Macedo | Rolando Volzone
12:00 – 12:30
Open assembly
Moderators | Carla Duarte | Catarina Crespo Martins
12:30 – 14:30
Communitarian lunch
AFTERNOON
AQUI | ACOLÁ
14:30 – 17:00
Walk around and within the “torranense” religious heritage places
organized by Carla Duarte, Laura Pomesano and Sofia Costa Macedo
17:00 – 18:00
Presentation of the book “Art as Gestion of the Public Sphera”
José Guilherme Abreu and Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro
18:00 – 20:00
transHERITAGE exhibition inauguration
Thierry Ferreira
