Craft Hub
CRAFT SCOTLAND LTD and UNIVERSITY OF WALES TRINITY SAINT DAVID ROYAL CHARTER
UK-wide
2020
Total project grant (euros)
754,864.00 €
Sub-programme
Culture
Funding scheme
Creative Europe
Call number
EACEA 32/2019
Call publication date
10 Jan 2019
Application deadline
27 Nov 2019
Number of partners in project
9
Lead organisation
CARLOW COUNTY COUNCIL
Partners
APOSTOLINA TSALTAMPAKI KAI SIA EE
CONSORZIO MATERAHUB INDUSTRIE CULTURALI E CREATIVE
CRAFT SCOTLAND LTD
DESIGNKOLEN KOLDING
GLASMALEREI PETERS GMBH
OSLOMET - STORBYUNIVERSITETET
UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
UNIVERSITY OF WALES TRINITY SAINT DAVID ROYAL CHARTER
Craft Hub is a 3-year, 9 partner project to showcase the wealth of European Craft practice & address sector challenges. A blend of expertise & activity is needed. CH responds through a diverse Europe-wide partnership encompassing practice, education, advocacy & business.
Craft Hub activities/outputs include 42 Residencies, 305 training/education workshops to increase Audience Participation, 7 Exhibitions/catalogues, 2 Conferences, 1 Festival of Craft, 1 Sustainability Plan, 1 Material Library & database (min 2600 material/digitised samples) & 1 multi-media open-access Digital Repository featuring a minimum of: 250 Films/250 Audio Interviews/12 podcasts/36 e-newsletters/60 tutorials/500 Maker profiles/500 Maker gallery entries/1 audience gallery/1 blog & interactive ‘Ask a Maker’ feature.
Craft Hub will develop audiences; promote transnational mobility & capacity building through training & education to increase interdisciplinary audience participation, appreciation & the market for Craft. Craft Hub will work with Practitioners, Educators/Learners, Academics/Researchers, Inter-disciplinary Professionals & wider Public to encourage greater participation, the creation of high quality new work & professional opportunities.
CH proposes a new model to document & safeguard Craft knowledge, one that complements existing resources & digs deeper, enabling an exploration of process/skill, as well as motivation, to record/contextualize emerging/experimental, established & ‘at risk’ Craft.
Craft Hub pushes boundaries, drawing on Heritage & established processes to combine with new & experimental ways of making.
Craft Hub explores disciplines including glass/ceramics/jewellery/stone-masonry/metalwork/textiles/furniture/digital making & more.
Craft Hub supports the business of Craft, identifying routes to sustainable Practice.
Craft Hub reclaims the word Craft; Craft Makers voice their own identity through interviews, practice & artefacts.
Craft Hub: Inspiring Makers.





