In the Spotlight: The Artist Ioannis Stathoyiannis
The team of Mingei Project visited the solo exhibition of the artist Ioannis Stathoyiannis. This exhibition was held last Summer (July 2021) in
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NEWS & EVENTS
Collaborative learning in digital heritage projects
During the RISE IMET conference on emerging technologies in museums and cultural heritage, Waag presented the approach for impact assessment and evaluation of heritage projects
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In the Spotlight: local Industry “Handmade Cretan Woven”
In the modern technologically dominated world, traditional arts and professions gradually tend to become extinct, as the vast majority of people prefer to
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Safeguarding weaving heritage in India
Working with heritage weaving communities in India India has a long weaving tradition. Although the bulk of the country’s textile industry has been
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In the Spotlight: Nikolaos Fasoulas, a traditional shoemaker from the mountainous village Anogeia
The team of Mingei project visited the mountainous village Anogeia, located at the foot of Psiloritis Mountain on Crete Island, in order
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In the Spotlight: Women weavers from “Aretousa” Workshop
In the modern technologically dominated world, traditional arts and professions gradually tend to become extinct, as the vast majority of people prefer
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In the Spotlight: weaving experts from CRETACOM
The weaving workshop of Crete, CRETACOM located in the Handicraft park of Anopolis is a family business, which dates back to ’80s.
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Real-time gamified interaction with hand gestures
As a way to represent and preserve Heritage Crafts in the context of Mingei, Virtual Humans are used to reenact and recreate
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Courting in the mastic fields [chapter 3]
In this third part of the series about a year in a mastic village, we’ll follow the journey of little Dimitris and
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Capturing the subtle details of crafts
The essence of an expertly executed craft is too nebulous to define. This is the reason why Mingei uses a variety of
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