RESTORY project builds synergistically upon textual and oral storylines to explore the past of small and
medium-sized communities with the end goal of restoring the public’s emotional connection to discontinued
traditions, conveyed by several neglected subsets of cultural heritage. In doing so, it pays greater attention to
dimensions of cultural heritage and its transformative nature that have long been overshadowed by architectonic
monuments or sites of national or trans-national significance. Written texts and interviews encapsulate expressions
of collective agency, allowing current-day SSH academics to investigate those natural processes that gave prominence to a limited supply of human and material resources. With a focus on schooling, recycling practices, and
affective-based communication strategies of group agents, RESTORY intends to break down the formation and
enactment of attitudes and strategies, learn from the lessons of the past and integrate them into the future
configuration of commitments. Ultimately, emulating the resource maximization solutions (intuitively designed by
small-scale communities over a long period of time) will allow the transfer of know-how from academia to local
memory institutions, stakeholders (through facilitators serving their communities), and citizens and contribute to the
sustainable development of heritage.