Crafting Futures aims to revalue the knowledge and skills of crafts. In a combination of scientific and practice-based research it bridges crafts to current challenges of sustainability, innovation, inclusion, lifelong learning and urban transformation.
Mission
Rethinking the societal valuation of crafts knowledge and knowhow in order to foster future-oriented craft practices and networks in Flanders.
The project engages Actor Network theory and Controversy Mapping to research craft ecosystems, in a process of co-creation with stakeholders, leveraged by research through design.