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From Mingei to Craeft!
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Some of you may have followed the Mingei project that provided means to establish representations of heritage Crafts, based on digital assets, semantics, existing literature, and repositories, as well as mature digitisation and representation technologies. The Craeft project was officially launched in March 2023 to take over Mingei’s results and further implement means for capturing, representing, transmitting, and safeguarding tangible and intangible aspects of heritage crafts.
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Despite crafts countless values and benefits for employment, sustainability, territorial identity, and cultural heritage preservation, many crafts skills
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are under threat for several reasons. Among them are the isolation and
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aging of craft practitioners, the low transmission rate, and
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not to forget constantly growing mass-consumption habits
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and the economic crisis that make craft products less accessible.
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Craeft aims to contribute to the safeguarding of crafts by deepening the understanding of crafts actions, techniques, and skills through the recording and digital documentation of crafts gestures and the development of
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computer-aided methods that will stimulate and support the crafts transmission and creation processes.
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Craft Methodology Schema
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To achieve its objectives, Craeft will implement its methodology,
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on the following crafts actions:
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Free forming
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Subtracting
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Adding
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Interlocking
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In order to expand its impact, Craeft constantly builds synergies with other
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projects in the crafts and heritage fields. Among which are also the cluster projects
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selected under the Horizon Call, “Traditional Crafts for the Future '',
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relevant crafts organisations, such as FRH (Future for Religious Heritage),
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The strength of CRAEFT relies on the multidisciplinary and complementary
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expertise of its partners. The consortium assembles anthropologists, cognitive, digital, and AI scientists, as well as practitioners and experts in valorisation
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and education in crafts, It mirrors European cultural diversity with partners
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from Greece, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, France, and Switzerland.
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The Consortium
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