CRAFTS FOR THE FUTURE - a challenge for humanity
- an ADER, Indus Tree & MMM collaboration

Course dates: July 20th to July 26th 2009

Terra cotta compost systems, rivergrass carpet tiles, new solutions for the homes of the next generations. World crafts will transform over the next decades as time changes. Join us on a trip to the hearts of original human creativity – CRAFTS – the work of hands and mind – the connection between the social systems and the culture. Let’s do FUTURE (world) CRAFTS like when world music was created decades ago.

This course is about how to find new ways of using technology as well as maintaining the world heritage of old traditional ways of doing Craft.

Chances are probably small that a traditional craft industry producing what it has done for decades can survive. Crafts come from the art of living – the art of making useful, meaningful and beautiful objects. This could all be forgotten with a mass consumption market that just demands masses of products at as low a cost as possible.

So the question is, how do we maintain a global craft industry that is vital and innovative and brings new maybe often controversial solutions to everyday life and is at the same time economically as well as ecologically sustainable?

If we manage to fuse these various ways of thinking and come up with new seriously visionary and pragmatic concepts we will be able to create possibilities NOT just for the craft industry BUT also NEW and INNOVATIVE solutions that might help humans living more sustainable lives.

With:
-Neelam Chhiber - Designer and CEO of INdus Tree, India 
-Aparna Karve – Interior Designer & architect, India
-Nicholas Xynos – France ADER
-Mathilde Bretillot - Designer and Interior Architect, France
-Niels Peter Flint - designer & founder of MMM and EXDL

ASSISTED BY:
-Peter Pilkington, Operations Manager Micro Macro Monde, France
-Mette Flint, Activity Coordinator Micro Macro Monde, France

More info and interation:
If you are interested in interacting, asking questions, adding comments, seeing videos of some of the course-leaders etc. in relation to the various camps and courses you can do so at our MMM blog which is hosted by EXDL.

Go to the CRAFTS blog.