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MADE IN Open Call: SUPERLOCAL Crafting the Everyday workshop

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.

IN CRAFTING THE EVERYDAY WE LOOK FOR
— new ways in which Zagreb can activate the value of its own local production assets by means of design and contribute to the global debate on dehumanization of production processes caused by hyper-production and neo-liberal market demands
— new models of collaboration between locally rooted producers: designers, craftspeople and makers, that can contribute to the economic and social sustainability of local community
— new projects that bring local craft skills, materials and techniques back into the design process, but merge them with new and available digital technologies
— new everyday objects that are well balanced in using old manufacturing techniques and technological advancements of the digital revolution

The goal of the workshop is to, through intense dialogue of local designers, craftspeople and makers, come up with new models of collaboration and new functional objects of everyday that help local economies by: exclusively using local materials, techniques, skills and knowledge and promoting new models of collaboration between designers, craftspeople and makers.
The workshop will be held according to the SUPERLOCAL, 0 miles production principles, in collaboration with local craftspeople (Zagreb city centre).

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Written concept (up to 2000 characters) containing: 1) proposal for a practical everyday life object that combines digital and traditional making techniques;
2) preferred selection of potential collaborators from the Open Call craftspeople list (full profiles to be find soon via www.madein-platform.com/crafts);
3) envisioned types of documentation of the process (mapping, videos, drawings, audio recordings etc.);
4) timetable of the making process (during the 5 days of workshop but also after the workshop in case not all the parts of the project are possible to be realised within the timeframe of 5 days)

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