Creative Traditions Forum: the Project and the Team
Creative Traditions Forum: the Project and the Team
Author(s): Corina IosifContributor(s): Cristina Hurdubaia (Photographer)
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Editura Martor
Keywords: Creative Tradition Forum; interview; project team; traditions; cultural patrimony; peasant cultures; manufacture; hand-made; peasant crafts;traditional skills;
Summary/Abstract: The present text is an interview with the members of the “Creative Traditions Forum” project, hosted in 2017 by the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, with the financial support of the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN Romania). The aim of this project is to encourage the development of the whole area of creation related to traditions, to bring traditions into the modern age and to draw benefits from knowledge that has been accumulated and passed down, in a way that will be useful and applicable to the period and the times in which we live. In other words, the project is promoting the idea of the modern age of traditions, in which tradition takes on contemporary usefulness.
Journal: Martor. Revue d’Anthropologie du Musée du Paysan Roumain
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 183-195
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
