MADE IN invites all interested design professionals and students of design, visual arts, architecture, new media and related disciplines, to apply for participation in the Crafts—Design Workshop SUPERLOCAL Crafting the Everyday.
Participants will take part in designing and making process in collaboration with local craftspeople, producers and makers. Workshop will be supervised by designer Andrea de Chirico, moderated and organized by design collective OAZA and Museum of Arts and Crafts in partnership with School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb.
SUPERLOCAL, 0 miles production is a global network that promotes local manufacturing. It fosters a future vision on crafts and production.
Starting from the fablab network, it elaborates a further layer, embracing also traditional manufacturing techniques. It is through the mix between new and old manufacturing techniques that every object is made. SUPERLOCAL final goal is to become a movement of people connecting resources and labour locally, but having a global impact. After being implemented in four different locations in Europe, the system develops through a constellation of activities, including local productions, production tours and lecturers internationally. Doing so, it helps local economies, promotes local craft traditions and encourages a new manufacturing mentality.