We are happy to share the recordings from the webinar and videos from the workshop on the topic Pathways and Stone Wall management in Historic Gardens.
Webinar
The speakers, a variety of international experts, presented different approaches and teachings from a variety of international experts
concerning these two elements that is both a part of the green and the built cultural heritage in historic gardens. Challenges due to climate change were discussed as well as how modern technology can be used for documentation before deconstructing and re-laying stone structures. How to collect knowledge of a craft that in some parts of the world is diminishing rapidly and how to spread it both for professionals and the public were addressed.
Workshop
The tutors on the workshop were Joakim Lilja, handicraft advisor and dry-stone waller, Knut-Steffen Knutsen, professional dry-stone waller, Olofssons bygg AB, Daniel Lundberg, gardener at Gunnebo and Joakim Seiler, head gardener at Gunnebo.
The videos are produced and edited by Freja Frölander. The topics for the videos are:
- Practicing the English, the French and Swedish historical management regimes for pathways
- Dry-stone wall analysis
- Pinning a dry-stone wall
- Deconstructing a dry-stone wall
- Breaking and trimming stones
- Rebuilding a dry-stone wall
