Mot materielt og immaterielt likeverd : Ivaretakelse av Nidarosdomen og steinhuggerenes håndverkskunnskap - to sider av samme sak?

Med den gjenreiste Nidarosdomen fulgte at formål og vilkår for steinhuggernes arbeidsoppgaver endret seg. Det som utspiller seg i møtet mellom et automatisk fredet kulturminne og ivaretakelsen av bredden og dybden i en håndverkstradisjon preges av et sterkt materielt fokus. Vernefilosofi og restaureringsprinsipper begrenser dermed muligheten for utvikling av håndverkskunnskapen. Utøvelsen av håndverket er mer enn en fysisk aktivitet, men det er "usynlig". I denne undersøkelsen søker jeg å finne en strategi for å øke bevisstheten om denne "tause kunnskapen" og dens betydning. Dette utspiller seg innenfor den fysiske rammen av et kommende restaureringsprosjekt på Nidarosdomen. Formålet er å synliggjøre at ivaretakelse av byggverket og bevaring av bredden i håndverkskunnskapen kan være to sider av samme sak. En felles materiell og immateriell kulturarv med et formidlingspotensial

Soapstone Quarrying, a Stoneworker’s Approach

Practical activities are best expressed and understood through practice. Present understanding of former times’ crafts practice are mainly based on theoretical interpretations of the traces and products left behind. By contrast, a stoneworker sees the crafts’ process as a source of knowledge. This is the thought behind The traditional quarrying project, carried out in the Klungen soapstone quarry, close to Trondheim, Norway in 2011. The project intended to achieve a more detailed insight into quarrying methods of the past. Main fields of interest were the methods themselves, time consumption, choice and use of tools and similarities/differences in techniques applied to shape the pieces to be quarried. One may rightfully ask if this project, carried out by a present day stoneworker, can provide answers relevant for aspects of past times’ quarrying. The factors assessed were reduced to those essential in any stone working process; the material, the craftsperson and the tools. Regardless of time and purpose, the material stands out as an unchangeable or static factor, and it sets the premises for what can be done and how. A material-related ‘timelessness’ is thus revealed and makes the craftsperson’s answers relevant for soapstone working in general

Soapstone in the North. Quarries, Products and People 7000 BC - AD 1700

This book addresses soapstone use in Norway and the North Atlantic region, including Greenland. Although the majority of the papers deal with the Iron Age and Middle Ages, the book spans the Mesolithic to the early modern era. It deals with themes related to quarries, products and associated people and institutions in a broad context. Recent years have seen a revival of basic archaeological and geological research into the procurement and use of stone resources. With its authors drawn from the fields of archaeology, geosciences and traditional crafts, this anthology reflects cross-disciplinary work born of this revival