Asia

19 Completed Projects

25 June 2026

Becoming Kacalisian: Documenting the Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Techniques of Slate Houses in Southern Taiwan

11 June 2026

Masks of the Navadurgā in Bhaktapur, Nepal: documenting the annual process of making the deities from raw soil to cremation

20 May 2026

Indonesian Boatbuilding Endangered Knowledge Project

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

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

27 November 2025

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

31 October 2025

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

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

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

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.

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.

15 June 2022

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

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