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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International webinar Mingei Day – Preserving heritage crafts using technology
How can we use technology to digitally preserve traditional and industrial crafts for the future? Heritage, museum, technological and craft professionals from all
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On adventure in the museum
In museums, objects are often exhibited separately. Tools are shown alongside other tools, and glass objects are exhibited together with other glass
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In the Spotlight: glassblower Thibaut Nussbaumer
When Thibaut Nussbaumer fell from a horse in his teenage years, he had no idea at the time that it would set
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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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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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The power of co-creation
To digitise and transfer knowledge about the (in)tangible aspects of crafts; that is the goal of our European project Mingei. Already from
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