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2nd edition launching in March, 2023

MADE IN is a research, design and heritage platform that proposes new collaborative practices and knowledge exchange between the traditional craftspeople and contemporary designers. It engages craftspeople, designers, researchers, curators and theoreticians on a quest to pose relevant questions about the topics of heritage and production in today’s society through research and archiving of local crafts, conducting workshops and residencies and promoting ideas through a travelling exhibition.

Journal

Activities (2023-ongoing), Archive (2018—2021)

MADE IN DIALOGUES - Crafting the Future

Conference│Friday, 31 Mar 2023, 9.00 -17.00│Japanisches Palais, Dresden & Livestream

The conference organised by State Art Collections Dresden, Museum of Decorative Arts (SKD) is the kick-off event of the Europe-wide MADE IN Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design. The participating partners will along with international experts from the fields of crafts, design and research discuss the future of crafts as an instrument for social and ecological change as well as manners of passing the knowledge of craftsmanship and heritage to future generations.

  • KICK-OFF CONFERENCE DRESDEN

Craftsarchive

Registry of Knowledge Holders

  • by people
  • by type
  • By Location

Močvarni Hrast Master Carpentry

Small company for mechanical and manual wood processing specialized in manufacturing and processing of rare form of partly fossilized timber bog oak, which has even been adopted as a company name. Established as a family business, handed down from father to son, Carpentry Franjić tracks more then 6 decades long experience.

Projects

Crafts and Design Collaborations

  • Residencies
  • Workshops

CRAFTING DATA, SOURCING THE MATERIALS & EXPERIMENTS

Workshop hosted by Lukas Wegwerth in Radovljica, Slovenia. Organised by Museum of Architecture and Design.

CRAFTING, CLEANING &
CARING

Workshop hosted by Rianne Makkink in Andelsbuch, Austria. Organised by Werkraum Bregenzerwald.

Dialogues

Crafts and Design Dialogues

  • Text
  • Interview
  • Webinar
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  • Book

CRAFTSMANSHIP BEYOND THE PITFALSS

Author: Louise Schouwenberg

In the vanguards of the art and design worlds, there’s a remarkable interest for traditional techniques that, due to many reasons, lost their appeal at the start of the 20th century. The renewed interest is remarkable, as the crafts had largely turned obsolete since the industrial revolution. Moreover, where craftsmanship was still cherished, low wage countries provided cheaper alternatives. In spite of very interesting cultural experiments to win the battle, the fierce competition has caused a closure of many European craft industries in these last decades.

  • 12 / 2019

COLLABORATION AND HANDICRAFT

Author: Cvetka Požar

Nearly two and a half decades, since the mid-1990s, crafts have been making a comeback across Europe, even though they have never completely disappeared, despite the predominantly serial mass production. One of the lesser-known facts, for instance, is that traditional craftsmanship played a crucial role in the shaping of the new aesthetics of Italian design between 1945 and 1960 in the period of modernism, which in principle rejected manual production.

  • 12 / 2019

Exhibition

Crafts and Design Narratives

Travelling exhibition referred to eight specific projects that emerged through a two-year process, addressing issues specific to local production context. The curatorial concept is built upon the idea of expanding the MADE IN platform through future exhibitions. 

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