The Dialogue with Skills

This Work Package will give a strong focus on the people that do demonstrations of traditional skills like metalworking, textile working, pottery making, woodworking et cetera.
There will be specialist workshops for this target group, most generally combined in time and space with the seminars. The workshops will be for specialists, where they will exchange experiences and discuss methods et cetera.

This Work Package is primarily for the skill specialists, with the objectives of improving their skills and their presentation techniques and didactics. The workshops must in some cases last for 1 week or even up to 10 days. Each craft should meet around 2 times each during the 5 years, although in some cases one workshop should be sufficient. The Work Package4 workshops will be generally combined in time and space with other OpenArch events.

This Work Package has a tight relation with Work Package 5 on the Dialogue with Science (experimental archaeology), which is why the beneficiaries responsible for craft aspect will also coordinate the experiences foreseen on Work Package5.

Possible themes for the annual workshops are: Metalworking, Textile working, Pottery making, Stone working, Wood working/carpentry, Leather working, Food and drink, Music and Architecture.
The workshops will focus on the techniques, the craftsperson himself, the interaction between crafts and the archaeological and natural environment, and also on intangible aspects of the crafts (stories, lore etc.). In cooperation with Work Package 3, the theme of different ways of presenting history to the public will be addressed.