The 19th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which took place from 2 to 7 December 2024 in Asuncion, Paraguay, was also attended by the Republic of Slovenia, represented at the session by Tanja Roženbergar, representative of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum / Coordinator for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
At the session, which confirmed the new inscriptions of intangible cultural heritage on all three UNESCO lists (the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and the List of Good Safeguarding Practices of the Intangible Cultural Heritage), the expansion of the already inscribed element, the Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List in 2018, was also confirmed. 8 countries participated in the nomination (Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland), and at this year's session, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Ireland and Luxembourg joined this multinational nomination.
Dry stone walling is a skill of building without the use of a binding material, where different types of solid stone buildings are constructed from available local stone obtained by cleaning and arranging land plots and while understanding the concept of building by stacking. The knowledge of stacking stones without a binder is the basic and original technique of building in the Karst and Istria, where this type of construction served as the basic condition of survival.