Targeted craft and design workshops bring a new sparkle to traditional crafts
design and help to define the concepts and contexts that shape contemporary
practice.
take part in art workshops work with makers to update design
skills and help to improve product display to generate and supplement income.
Participants are introduced to basic visual art skills that include colour, concepts
of modern design and composition and are given guidance to develop new ideas
for their products and advice on improving and maintaining quality in materials
and production.
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Craft and Design Programme for Afghan Women
Refugees, Khazana, Azakhail, Khurazan and
Jalozai Refugee Camps, Peshawar, Pakistan
A series of two-week guidance training in Craft and Design
over three years gave women living in the refugee camps new
skills to showcase and develop their high quality hand skills in
embroidery and sewing. Local markets were targeted as being of
immediate importance to the women to realise regular incomes
and several small training schools were set up by trainees to
expand on the initial workshop sessions.
Khwai Village Craft Shop Mural, Moremi Game
Reserve, Botswana
The village is noted for the traditional crafts made by the
BaBukakhwe and Bayei people of the area. The village is
developing as an eco-tourism location and the Craft Shop was
built and decorated by the villagers and their Chief as part of the
sustainable livelihood challenge for Basarwa in Botswana.