We created the Digital Course in Traditional Building Crafts to preserve and popularise building crafts as intangible cultural heritage. The project’s goal is therefore to document traditional building crafts and make them widely known in order to preserve and transfer this knowledge.

The project consists of two main parts: the first provides intensive, practice-oriented training in masonry, joinery, and stonemasonry during a camp at Bánffy Castle in Bonțida, while the second serves as a theoretical introduction to the stonemasonry, masonry, and joinery trades, in the form of a multi-module online curriculum.

The digital course, which is available in romanian and hungarian on the Transilvania Trust Foundation’s platform, also provides insight into the current status of traditional building crafts through an introductory lecture, complemented by videos and didactic materials. The programme thus offers practical skills and knowledge to interested individuals, students, and professionals, facilitating the continued survival and contemporary utilization of traditional trades.

Details: https://bhct.transylvaniatrust.ro/ro/curs-digital/

Lecturers: Csók Zsolt, Silye Lóránd, Nagy György, Bartha István, Sipos István, Kiss Zoltán, Nicole Sutton, Bikfalvi Márton, Kiss Lóránd, Szemerey Tamás

Video: BrandCare Marketing

Translation: Szász Alpár Zoltán

The cultural project is co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN).

The project does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the project’s content or any use to which the project outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.