Description:
Dragodid is the name of a hamlet on Croatian island of Vis, the starting point of this project. Left to abandonment and ruin, it's rudimentary stone architecture was a monument to the old way of life on Adriatic that depended entirely on local materials and subsistence. Since 2002 we used the site to organise a series of rebuilding workshops, with the aim of learning the traditional building techniques from the old local masters and transferring them to the new generation of practitioners, both heritage professionals and enthusiasts. 2010' saw an addition of a new site, Petrebišæa hamlet on the Uèka mountain of Istrian peninsula which has become a new focus of our operations. The knowledge collected trough this practical work as well as related scientific papers and expert studies are disseminated to the wider audience trough series of printed publications and www.dragodid.org - "A Dry-stone Portal". Traditional dry-stone masonry techniques present an intangible heritage which is essential to the preservation of Mediterranean cultural landscape and an example of practical and sustainable building with local materials. Our mission is to preserve and popularise this endangered knowledge for the benefit of the experts, enthusiasts and the cultural landscape itself.