### Record Type:: [[Claims]] ValueofCraft:: [[Peace and justice value of craft]] ### Outline Collaborations between designers and craftspeople, professional craftspeople and amateurs, and facilitators and the general public expand the presence of craft in the community. Projects that unite disparate groups in the activity of making build skills, cultural exchange, tolerance and lifestyle alteration. Existing hierarchies disappear while participants are engaged in the flow of creation.  *360 Degrees Vanishing* is the title of a project that brought beaders from South Africa’s East Cape to Houston, Texas for the production of beaded panels that covered the façade of Art League Houston. Artist Selven O’Keef Jarmon provided the design and local volunteers were taught how to bead. “Not only is their knowledge and labour being valued (the beaders were all paid an honorarium), but because of their ongoing visits and presence, they are also connecting to and commenting on the culture of Houston as much as the other way around…” (Burisch, 2021: 55). ![[Attachments/2e48fa3df1f3ceed79204d12cc0bca29_MD5.png]] ### References %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ```dataview list summary from [[Claim - Craft-design collaborations can give different peoples a common interest.]] where contains(file.path,"Warp") ``` %% - [[Warp/Marigold Beaders of Zimbabwe.md|Marigold Beaders of Zimbabwe]]: A craft project involves collaboration between a white artist in South Africa and bead artists in Zimbabwe which generates income and creative expression. - [[Warp/Selven O’Keef Jarmon - Beading across geographies.md|Selven O’Keef Jarmon - Beading across geographies]]: Local Houston artist worked with South Africa beaders to produce panels for a building. - [[Warp/The PET lamp project.md|The PET lamp project]]: Spanish designers work with artisans in other countries to make products using plastic waste. %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %%