CULTURE Newsletter
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Handicraft and Design: Translating the past into the future
The field of handicrafts includes tradition, aesthetics, rarity and emotion. Artisans creatively and innovatively express a know-how that has been transmitted over time. UNESCO is the only United Nations agency to have a global vision of the economic and sociocultural role of handicrafts in society, encouraging the role of design as an important link between tradition and modernity.
- UNESCO Award of Excellence for Handicrafts: Traditional savoir-faire and contemporary use
- Maison & Objet, Foire de Paris and Folk Art Market, Santa Fe 2008: Outreach activities
- Design 21: Social Design Network, a response to global challenges
- UNESCO cities of crafts and folk art: Aswan and Santa Fe
- UNESCO cities of design: Berlin, Buenos Aires, Kobe, Montreal and Nagoya
- DREAM Centres: Dance, Read, Express, Art, Music
- Millennium Development Goals: Most projects related to handicrafts
From 30-10-2008 to 01-11-2008 (Moscow - Russian Federation)
VI International Conference “Human Being, Culture and Society in the Context of Globalization” More
From 05-11-2008 to 09-11-2008 (Istanbul - Turkey)
Third Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage More
From 06-11-2008 to 07-11-2008 (Olympia - Greece)
International Workshop on Disaster Risk Management at World Heritage Properties More
From 18-11-2008 to 18-11-2008 (Paris - France)
Award Ceremony of the 2008 Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture More
From 21-11-2008 to 23-11-2008 (Leipzig - Germany)
Denkmal, European Professional Event for Monument Maintenance and Restoration, and Urban Renewal More
From 21-11-2008 to 21-11-2008 (Braunschweig - Germany)
Meeting on the “The Image of the Other in European and Arab-Islamic Textbooks” More
From 25-11-2008 to 29-11-2008 (Saint Petersburg - Russian Federation)
The Second Russian Congress in Cultural Research “Cultural Diversity: From Past to Future” More
From 26-11-2008 to 29-11-2008 (Seoul - Republic of Korea)
30th Anniversary of the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation More
From 26-11-2008 to 26-11-2008 (Tokyo - Japan)
World Heritage Torch-Run Concert: “Journey of Heart on Silk Road from France to Japan” More
- Designers Meet Artisans (pdf)
- Handicrafts and Employment Generation for the Poorest Youth and Women, Policy Paper N° 17, UNESCO Intersectoral Programme on the Cross-Cutting Theme "Poverty Eradication, Especially Extreme Poverty" (pdf)
- Raconte-moi l’artisanat (children book, in French)
- International Craft Trade Fairs - A practical guide