World Wood Day Foundation Research Grant (WWDF Research Grant) is set up for the purpose of encouraging research studies focused on “wood and culture”. Both ongoing projects and new initiatives are welcome to apply.

Previous Announcements

2024-2025

Name Affiliation Project Name
Francisco Mamani-Fuentes Centro de Estudios Históricos, Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile From Spain to the Andes – Transfers, Adaptations, and Innovations of Framing Carpentry in Colonial Colombia (16th and 17th centuries)
Élie Pinta Arizona State University, USA Investigating Norse Greenlandic foodways through interdisciplinary analysis of wooden containers and tableware
Jay Thakkar / Mansi Shah CEPT University, India Relevance and Continuity of Wood in the Kath khuni Architecture in the Mountainous Region of Himachal Pradesh, India

2024-2025 Call for proposals (LINK

2023-2024

Name Affiliation Project Name
Iris Brémaud CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), Montpellier, France TIME FOR CRAFT, CHANGING WOODS: How time shapes artisans' work, how ecological crisis change wood uses in musical instruments making
Hans Reschreiter Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria Wood and Light
Helen Smith University of York, UK The Culture and Craft of Wood Type

2023-2024 Call for proposals (LINK

2022-2023

Name Affiliation Project Name
Liard Aurélie Université Côte d'Azur, France Burned wood as a cultural marker: archaeological charcoal and early societies of the Great Basin
Julia Harrison Penland School of Craft, USA Sweet Impressions: Carved Wooden Confectionery Molds
Enrique Aragón Núñez University of Almeria, Spain Punta Prima Project (Formentera, Spain) From Trees to Ships: Timber, Cultural Interaction, and Climate in the Early Roman Empire

2022-2023 Call for proposals (LINK

2021-2022

Name INSTITUTION PROJECT TITLE
Francesco Negro DISAFA, University of Torino, Italy Wood in sport equipment - Heritage, present, perspective
Martino Quintavalla Acoustics, Materials Engineering, Musical Instruments, Luthierie, Italy Neapolitan wood craftsmanship of the 18th century: discovering ancient technologies in lutherie

2021-2022 Call for proposals (LINK

2020-2021

Name INSTITUTION PROJECT TITLE
Michael Grabner University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Vienna, Austria Reconstruction of Forest management activities in prehistoric Hallstatt, Austria
Juliette Taïeb University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France Let the wood speak 2: Dendroprovenancing and Strontium analysis of Thule architectural woods in Northwestern Alaska at the beginning of the second millennium AD

2020-2021 Call for proposals (LINK

2019-2020

Name INSTITUTION PROJECT TITLE
Rosalie C. Mendoza University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines Wood Identification: A Tool For Preservation Of Indigenous Architecture Of Traditional Houses In Ifugao, Philippines
Martino Quintavalla Acoustics, Materials Engineering, Musical Instruments, Luthierie, Italy Choice of wood in musical instruments: Italian Red Spruce and traditional mandolins
Juliette Taieb University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France Let the wood speak: Dendro-Archaeology, Climate and Culture in Northwestern Alaska at the beginning of the second millennium AD

2019-2020 Call for proposals (LINK

2018-2019

Name INSTITUTION PROJECT TITLE
Mauro Ferreira Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland WOOD Science & Technology On Culture (WOODSTOC)
Michael Grabner University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Vienna, Austria Stockmühle revisited – Reconstruction of a historical watermill grinding machinery
Elie Pinta University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France Wood culture in the Norse Greenland Settlements: Circulation and management of wooden materials at the edge of the world

2018-2019 Call for proposals (LINK

2017-2018

Name Institution Project title
Benjamin Gearey University College Cork, Cork, Ireland The Pallasboy Project: Final Phase
Michael Grabner University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Vienna, Austria The History of Wood Culture – The Oldest Wooden Goods Around the Globe
Ellie Richards Penland School of Crafts, USA Process, Product, Place: Investigating Wood Practices Behind the Ghanaian Fantasy Coffins
2017-2018 Call for proposals (LINK)

2016-2017

Name Institution Project title
Benjamin Gearey University College Cork Investigating Woodworking Skills and Techniques in Irish Prehistory: Phase 2
LIU Guan Art & Design School, Beijing Forestry University Artistic Studies of Bog-wood in Chinese Cultural Background
Kathy Foley (Mary Kathleen) University of California Santa Cruz Seaching for Golek; Cultural Fusion of Indonesian, Chinese, Indian Elements in Sundanese Wayang Golek
2016-2017 Call for proposals (LINK)

 

2015-2016

Name Institution Project title
Benjamin Gearey University College Cork Investigating Woodworking Techniques and Skills in Irish Prehistory: Reconstructing the Pallasboy Vessel.
Jason L. Newton Syracuse University Common Labor, Common Lands: Farmers, Lumberjacks, and the Rise of Industrial Capitalism in the 'Wooden World' of the Northern Forest, 1850-1900
Sara Robinson Oregon State University Discovering the Historical Culture of Spalting in Peru
2015-2016 Call for proposals (LINK)

 

2014-2015

Name Institution Project title
Mechtild Mertz Centre de recherche sur les civilisations d'Asie orientale, Paris Wood Identification of Ancient Temple Structures in Ladakh Located in the Western Himalayas
Tuula Moilanen Aalto University CHERRY WOOD - A MIRROR OF JAPANESE LIFE AND CULTURE, Research on the use of mountain cherry and its substitutes in Japanese traditional and contemporary woodblock printmaking and publishing
Anila Naeem NED University of Engineering and Technology Wooden Symphonies of Bygone Times: Perishing Legacy of Traditional Havelis
Bernhard Seliger Hanns-Seidel-Foundation The use of wood in the inner-Korean borderland - energy, traditional life style, and art? The case of Goseong, a County of Wood and Culture
Francois Tainturier  Inya Institute (Research Institute for Myanmar Studies) Teak monasteries, Lineage, and Craftsmanship: A Socio-Cultural Survey of Master Carpenters and Wood Carvers in Mandalay, Myanmar
2014-2015 Call for proposals (LINK)

 

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