Macro thoughts or flying over Romania

There is a network of more than 35 active points all over Romania - the Map of Architecture and Crafts Schools. The network is a pragmatic tool for socio-economic development. For example, it is a node in a developing network, important for the future of the country.

The nodes have sprung up spontaneously and occupy more or less advantageous places in Romania's infrastructure. So far, the present generation has built a network that has been verified by its own practical experience and has proved so effective that it deserves to be supported.

What is the purpose of this network?

The network complements a traditional rurality and pushes it towards a background of sustainability. This generates an advanced rurality. We communicate between village and town at the level of production and marketing. We create small production hubs. Local products are taken over by communities in collaboration with designers.

An advanced rurality means more comfort in the village without losing the livability qualities that the small community has that the city has lost. The network provides a level of production and retail that reduces commuting and favors local production hubs.

In a village with a high standard of living, townspeople with specific professions can be attracted to take advantage of the facilities offered by the village. This results in object and furniture design production in the spirit of creative traditions.

- The aim of the network is to balance the needs of people with limited access to education and information. The potential of young people, and not only young people, is greater than the offer and opportunities available to them. The network could complement and reinforce their needs.

- "Architectural workshops and summer schools, which take place in 90% of the cases in rural areas, recently play a major role for the non-formal and informal education of architects and future architects, aiming at developing transversal competences and soft and practical skills complementary to the classical training in universities. In the last four years alone, the number of initiatives offering activities in the field of architecture through the promotion and use of local eco-friendly materials, traditional and emerging crafts, techniques and principles of conservation of historic buildings and research and documentation of the existing built heritage has doubled" (hartamesterilorconstructii.ro).

- The network will encourage examples and models that generate and increase self-esteem.

- The network works with communities in nodes, preparing them to be able to absorb cutting-edge technologies.

- The Network is preparing places for alternative activities when surplus labor creates crises in urban areas. We are preparing to make profitable use of a known heritage.

Specialists in cutting-edge technologies of the 21st century can insert the most advanced technologies into the built network. So historic spaces are not at odds with the introduction of cutting-edge technologies, on the contrary. The nodes should not be seen as traditional targets, it is simply a question of using a site with places that are traditional and adapting it to the needs and urgencies that high technology implies.

Creative traditions can generate product ranges and satisfaction for very different categories of people.

- Be sport! Every success of a point in the network is a shared success.

The network is about overcoming inertia, about the sport of taking action, turning a network of dots into an energy network. It's about emulation.

In a few years, the network may become denser and its nodes will be stronger and more flexible, tailored to needs.

When the nodes reach a large enough number we can talk about performance or satisfaction in communities and relevant economic circuits.