ALENTEJO, PORTUGAL

Arts and Crafts OF ALENTEJO

Mapping of Arts and Crafts in: Cuba, Montemor-o-Novo, Portel, Viana do Alentejo and Vidigueira.

The crafts are before all about people - whether they master the craft or benefit from it’s result, it is the people who are important to revitalize and disseminate these knowledges, values ​​and traditions.

The pieces produced by the workshops in question are sometimes no longer relevant in the function for which they were designed. Thus, in order to bring them into the 21st century, they have to gain a new guise of attractiveness, based on working with the materials, the artistic and aesthetic dimension of the pieces, the possibility of creating a new design and, consequently, a new functionality or, they will remain a repository of sentimental historic memories. It is to contribute to this purpose that the survey and inventory of “Arts & Crafts” was carried out in the municipalities of Viana do Alentejo, Portel, Cuba, a parish of Vila de Frades in the municipality of Vidigueira and the parishes of São Cristóvão and Santiago do Escoural de Montemor-o-Novo.

At the end of the project, it is intended that everyone feels they are owners of these traditions, proud and knowledgeable about them, with the will and the ability to project them beyond their home territory. Through guided visits, production and marketing of new pieces, collaborations, educational programs and other dynamics born in the local community.


The objectives of this project are:

  • Help support traditional heritage of the territory;

  • Generate systemic programming, utilising contemporary mediation tools and gaining momentum in the local communities as a whole in relation to this intangible heritage;

  • To exhaustively identify the latent potential in the intervention territory in terms of “Arts & Crafts”, with a view to a future intervention in terms of design and marketing of the pieces;

  • Create a set of communication materials that ensure the dissemination of the initiative.


Full site:
www.arteseoficios-alentejo.com

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