Mingei Day: sharing knowledge of traditional crafts on international and local level
On March 10, Waag collaborated with several partners to host events in honour of what we have started calling Mingei Day. It included
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Online workshop Mingei Day in A’dam- Traditional textile crafts
On 10 March in the evening globally renowned fashion designer Antoine Peters, speaker of the evening, shares his passion for the craft of
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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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The Mingei approach: we collect, connect and open up
The history of craft goes back almost to the history of man: sharpening stone, carving wood, weaving fabric were amongst the first
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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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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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Multidisciplinary collaboration in reproducing a glass carafe
As part of the Mingei project, the Musée des Arts et Métiers is making a copy of a carafe dated in 1842,
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Digitizing crafters’ motions by ARMINES
Within the Mingei project, state of the art technology is used to preserve and represent traditional crafts. By digitizing processes, we can
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New richness at the museum: AR & VR apps
Digitisation of cultural heritage turns Europe’s cultural resources into an important pillar of the digital economy. The EU Work Plan for Culture
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