All Completed Projects

37 Completed Projects

27 April 2026

Nomadic Material Heritage: Documenting Textile and Animal Hide Crafts in Western Mongolia

9 April 2026

Documenting the social and geographic dimensions of the endangered art and practice of making hand-made deep artesian wells and shallow percolation wells in the Thar desert

24 March 2026

From Seeds to Rags: Textile Production in Dendi and Borgou (North Benin)

13 March 2026

Ceramic knowledge among the Bayot-Jola of Guinea-Bissau: Documenting the usages and meanings of a disappearing tradition

10 March 2026

The Documentation of the Manufacture of Ostrich Eggshell Beads Among the El Molo Community, Kenya

25 February 2026

From Reed to Ney: Documenting Musical Craftsmanship and Pedagogy in Turkey

17 February 2026

Documenting endangered knowledge of making Chitrali shu (handwoven woollen cloth) in Chitral, Northwest Pakistan

2 February 2026

Between presence and disappearance of traditional Bulgarian textiles of Stoianovca, Republic of Moldova

23 January 2026

Keeping the hammer’s voice alive

16 December 2025

The traditional production of shoes and boots in Tržič, Slovenia

9 December 2025

The Earthen and Organic Materials Technologies of Banda, Ghana

27 November 2025

Documenting the knowledge, skills and practices of the last remaining sign-painters in Ho Chi Minh City

19 November 2025

Indigenous women’s hand spinning wool in the Ecuadorian highlands

31 October 2025

Recording the knowledge of traditional potters from Vietnam: A historical perspective

27 October 2025

Burning the Bones of the Earth — Documenting the Traditional Lime Kilns Technology Across the Albanian-Greek Border

2 October 2025

Documenting the Palmyrene wool and leather products of Awassi sheep in the countries of the diaspora

29 September 2025

The Rohingya Recipes and Food Practices of stateless Rohingya community in camps of Bangladesh

27 June 2025

Documenting the Lost Practices of Felt and Felt-making in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains

6 June 2025

Documenting the Material Knowledge Systems of the Last Surviving Traditional Potters in Bosnia-Herzegovina

22 May 2025

Digital Documentation of Glass Bead Making, Use, and Meaning in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria

30 April 2025

Indigenous Gold and Silver Forging in Kumasi, Ghana

31 March 2025

Documenting the endangered traditional broom and fibre rope crafts of the Urhobo people of Nigeria

12 February 2025

The Chhot-builders of West Bengal, India: the vanishing craft-knowledge of a unique boat-building tradition

24 January 2025

Paper People – Making clothing from paper in Japan

17 January 2025

Making Things From Animals: Leather Technologies of the Kalahari

17 December 2024

Earth under Transformation, the endangered material knowledge from the Oleiras do Candeal Community of producing ancient Ceramic Pots and maintaining sustainable architectural techniques

9 December 2024

West African Wild Silks Techniques: Preserving Marka-Dafing’s Heritage of Knowledge

21 November 2024

Ethnic minorities and threatened materialities in Western Ethiopia

12 July 2024

Documenting Knowledge, Skills, and Practices of Dry-Stone Masonry at Great Zimbabwe

8 May 2024

Traditional Pottery-Making: An Endangered Indigenous Technology in the Gimbi Region of Ethiopia

18 April 2024

Material Culture of Batek Hunter-Gatherers in Pahang State, Malaysia

13 December 2023

Documenting the construction of a traditional kamalig (salt workshop) and the making of asin tibuok (native salt): the indigenous skills and knowledge systems of an endangered craft tradition in Alburquerque, Bohol, Philippines.

1 December 2023

Apprehending asapan: documenting the Turkana initiation ceremony

21 July 2023

Wooden reed making of the ethnic Lao Khrang in Thailand

2 March 2023

Museum, Community and Object: An ethnography of Sarawak native blades in a temporal and spatial milieu.

17 October 2022

Histories of Honey: Material Practices of Beekeeping in the Cherangani Hills, Kenya

15 June 2022

Documenting the Instrument and Instrument-making of Angkuoch, Cambodian Mouth Harp

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