Estate, Dacha, Residency: Local Crafts as Symbolic Capital

Restoration projects involving architectural heritage sites and their adaptation to contemporary life increasingly turn to the search for or creation of a “local identity” that enhances recognition and increases symbolic capital. The revival of craft workshops, work with historical context and the memory of a place, the collecting of tangible heritage and archiving of intangible heritage, and the organisation of artist residencies — all these and other issues arise for the teams behind such projects.

Moderator: Nikita Petrov, anthropologist

Participants:

Ekaterina Solovyova, photographer, Director of the House of Smodor Center for Photography and Visual Heritage in Galich

Olga Golovicher, entrepreneur, restorer of Astashovo

Aleksandra Falishtynskaya, philanthropist, founder of the POLE Foundation for the Development of National Culture and Crafts