The second Transnational Project Meeting of of the Erasmus+ funded project Miretage – European Pathways to Minority Religious Heritage took place on 16, 17 and 18 September 2024 in Leuven, Belgium, and was hosted by KADOC KU Leuven. This meeting was dedicated to the literature review produced by our consortium since the beginning of the project and featured a series of workshops to prepare the ground for the next step: establishing our Heritage Labs and developing the Heritage Trails.
The first two workshops addressed heritage-making methodologies. They were offered by Guy Tilkin (Federation for European Storytelling) who focused on meaning-making methodologies and Hester Dibbits (Reinwardt Academy) on emotional networking.
The second two workshops offered by Arjen Barel (Storytelling Centre in Amsterdam) dived into the use of storytelling techniques in heritage identification processes and how they will support the development of Miretage heritage trails. Tharik Hussain, author, journalist and heritage activist, shared the successful case of Britain’s Muslim Heritage Trails and provided participants with keys for community involvement.
Participants also had the chance to walk the “Traces of Islam in Leuven” trail, which looks into the past and present of Islam’s presence in the city.
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