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About the project
Craft Hub is driven by a creative curiosity coming from the partners artistic interest and background. Based on the wide-ranging group of partners, Craft Hub explores disciplines including glass, ceramics, jewellery, metalwork, textiles, furniture, digital making and more.
The overarching goal of the Craft Hub project is to deliver a series of collaborative modules which facilitates European mobility and exchange of crafts practitioners, artefacts and knowledge.
This will be addressed through a comprehensive and exciting program to allow experimental investigations into process and material supported by 42 transnational maker residencies, 305 days of outreach work, 1 festival, 7 exhibitions and 2 conferences.
Purpose
The Craft Hub project revolves around building support for the health and wealth of the European Craft sectors and its practitioners. It’s a European project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme focused on Craft in the context of cultural heritage and its continuing relevance in contemporary practice. The project explores the value of craft as a European cultural and artistic heritage and the need to archive, to preserve and pass on the precious skills and processes at risk of being lost, and how important it is to understand what motivates craft practitioners today.
The Craft Hub project revolves around building support for the health and wealth of the European Craft sectors and its practitioners. Craft Hub supports the business of Craft, identifying routes to sustainable Practice; which is preoccupied with capacity building for existing crafts practitioners, as well as audience development and training new makers. As part of the project, Design School Kolding is particular interested in elaborating the relation between craft and design.
Methods and results
The comprehensive program of work activities, planned for the 3 years of Craft Hub, will lead to the creation and population of a unique digital repository that provides a wealth of useful multimedia resources, documenting established and emerging craft practices; To build capacity for craft practitioners, to increase participation for craft, to safeguard craft skills and finally to increase training and education. This repository will ensure the sustainability of Craft Hub long after the activities have finished.
All activities of the project centres around craft practitioners, sharing experiences and knowledge about craft. The largest set of activities in Craft Hub is a broad range of educational and training workshops Continuing Professional Development and Outreach programmes; and residencies focusing on the transnational exchange of craft knowledge, skills and practice by craft practitioners. The networking will lead to the creation of a number of new experimental crafts pieces and these will be exhibited online and take place in 7 locations throughout Europe.
