The project aims to offer a new ‘educational’ approach to the European textile cultural heritage, meaning the material documents and the intangible contents related to it, at risk of dispersion, with particular attention to the “craft” aspect of the non-industrial product, which in its most evoluted version becomes an artistic expression as well as a social and cultural one. The aim is to experiment new educational tools so that these aspects of the heritage of the partner countries are transformed into educational opportunities for future designers.

In the current production, fabrics are industrialized and mass-produced at low cost, while the craft component of this sector is slowly fading with the consequent loss of knowledge and knowledge related to manual and artistic processes stratified over the centuries.

The project intends to create an educational space shared between educators, professionals and designers in which the traditional textile repertoire of the partner countries becomes a work and inspiration tool for the designs of the future.

– Digital cataloging of intangible heritage as a safeguard and dissemination tool: the Textile Museum is responsible for this cataloging activity of a selection of traditional clothes and fabrics from partner countries

– Digital innovation: creation of 3D models of the selected clothes and video materials to enrich the documentation

– Textile heritage education: activities such as online courses, seminars, insights and dissemination events at schools, associations and young designers.

PROJECT: ERASMUS +
PERIOD: 2020 – 2022
TOTAL BUDGET: 293.635,00 EUR
PARTNERSHIP:
HACER CREATIVO, Spain, Lead Partner
UFO, Albania
MOHOLY-NAGY MUVESZETI EGYETEM, Ungheria
FONDAZIONE MUSEO DEL TESSUTO DI PRATO, Italy