The history of the construction of the church of Our Lady of Tobed offers us historical news of interest in which it is recounted that on December 30, 1360 Friar Martín de Alpartir, commander of the Holy Sepulchre of Tobed, would have hired Mahoma Granada, Moorish rejolero of Pedrola, the manufacture of fifty thousand rejolas or bricks in the town of Tobed.

Although there is a land architecture characteristic of the area and previous chronologies such as the surveillance castle built in tapestry, the arrival of the master rejolero in the town could be the beginning of the neighborhood of the Obradores where about 50 workers, a large number of ovens and work spaces came into operation such as the vases or footballs .

The trades of Mudejar: the earth architecture itself integrates three themes of development – population, economic culture and society – that allow us to understand the territory from a broad and diverse point of view on a path from Islamic tradition in the 8th century to delve into the 12th-XVI chronological fork and thus analyze the profound heritage that work with indigenous materials has left to this day becoming a professionalization of present and future.

The theme breaks with popularly entrenched topics and constitutes a vindication of trades, materials related to Mudejar art and the use of spaces that have traditionally dragged a consideration of “poor or cheap”, when what we find is a perfect knowledge of the resources and works that have come to this day with surprising integrity and that can only be explained by the quality of all the actors and factors surrounding , not only to mudejar construction, but to any activity of local tradition linked to the use of landscape resources.

Activities that we can link not only to the great theories of today’s economy such as “sustainable resource management” or the “circular economy” but even, and far from being utopian, we could relate to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. And point out that the historical-artistic resources and, in particular, those declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO have been and are, by their uniqueness, source of wealth based on the identity of the territory and fundamental element for the sustainability of the local territory and its inhabitants, but always taking into account that these resources by their special definition should use specialized management tools for the use of resources in an orderly and conscious manner of their importance in the present and future history of people.

This third meeting seeks to delve into the past in order to offer real and viable possibilities based on the territory’s own idiosyncrasies through the presentation of Themes, Projects and Good Professional Practices of national and international scope linked not only to architects – masters of works at the time – and to the trades linked to construction, but the theme leads us to show a whole catalogue of trades that carry the Mudejar brand -lagajeros , goldsmiths, tters, omens, blusins, shoemakers, pickles, binders, linguists, jurists, doctors, traders, or any transformer of a resource – who introduce us to traditions in a current way.