In the Spotlight: Limerick Lace
Limerick Lace is an active community of local lace makers, the Limerick Museum and Archives and local educational institutions in Ireland. The
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NEWS & EVENTS
Movement Sonification for glassblowing handicraft
Mingei aims to preserve traditional crafts, spread knowledge about them and inspire people to learn new crafts. The project is inventing new approaches
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In the Spotlight: artist Eirini Linardaki
The artist Eirini Linardaki creates artworks using a variety of textiles coming from many places throughout the world. Each of these pieces
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In the Spotlight: ceramist Stelios Stamatis
The ceramic tradition on Lesvos island has a long history of 5.000 years, as the potter findings reveal in the prehistoric settlement
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The story of Jacquard weaving
Have you ever wondered how the pattern in splendid silk fabrics is created? Or asked yourself how many steps are involved in
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Virtual reenactment of loom weaving
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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Mastic villages on Chios
One of Mingei’s pilot studies involves mastic; a product from the mastic tree which exclusively grows in the south-west of Chios in
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Between crafts and computer science
Within the Mingei project, we collect the narratives of individual craftsmen and -women describing how they work. Besides those narratives, it is
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In the Spotlight: The pottery experience at Keramion
Image courtesy of Gang Zhang Pottery is one of the oldest human inventions, originating before the Neolithic period, practiced by elemental materials and
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Impact is everywhere
How do you know what impact the product you are developing will have? Your initial answer to this question might be: You
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