All Ongoing Projects

18 August 2022

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

12 August 2022

Documentation of Endangered Craft Heritage of Raffia Palms of Urhobo People of Nigeria

12 August 2022

Material culture of traditional fishers on the Rufiji River floodplain, Tanzania

12 August 2022

Documentation and Digitization of Indigenous Smithing Knowledge in North-eastern Tanzania

12 August 2022

Marine purple dye: a color from indigenous Mexico

12 August 2022

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

12 August 2022

Farming For Crafting: Digitising Organic Material Technology Of The Haya, Tanzania

12 August 2022

Recording south-western Ukrainian pottery: disappearing skills, knowledge and vessels

12 August 2022

Documenting Endangered Traditional Handicrafts: Three-legged Stools (Barcuma) and Coffee Culture in Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia.

12 August 2022

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

12 August 2022

Dreams of yellow: Documenting the making and performance of Nuosu oil-cloth umbrellas

12 August 2022

The “real design” knowledge among Huni Kuin weavers from the Peruvian Amazonia.

12 August 2022

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

12 August 2022

The taste of life: the management of brazil nut orchards, cooking knowledge and traditional biotechnologies of the Tenharin of Amazonia

12 August 2022

Indigenous women’s hand-spinning wool in the Ecuadorian Highlands

12 August 2022

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

12 August 2022

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

12 August 2022

Colours from the Sea, Fibres from the Land: Warp Ikat Textile Production and Natural Dyeing of the Alurung, Alor Regency, Indonesia

12 August 2022

Rediscovering Linangkit: The Traditional Hand Needleweaving of Women from Sabah, Malaysia

12 August 2022

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

15 October 2021

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.

15 October 2021

Burning the Bones of the Earth – Documenting the Traditional Lime Manufacturing in the Region of Epirus

15 October 2021

Indonesian Boatbuilding Endangered Knowledge Project

15 October 2021

The Bora Design System: Documenting the Knowledge Networks of Designs Made on Bodies and Objects in an Amerindian Ritual

15 October 2021

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

15 October 2021

The Most Delicious Meal is from the Pot: The Production and Use of Hand-built Ceramic Vessels in Marakwet, Northwest Kenya

15 October 2021

The Traditional Production of Shoes and Boots in Tržič

15 October 2021

Speaking Bodies: Documenting Uli Body Designs of the Igbo of Nigeria

15 October 2021

Documenting Garden Fencing Structures in Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

15 October 2021

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

15 October 2021

“Bo Lobung”: Documenting the Moken Spirit Poles Ceremony and Material Knowledge

15 October 2021

Tracking Through Time: Documentation of the Material Culture of the Omaheke Ju|’hoansi, Namibia

15 October 2021

Fera i asi: Digitizing the Island Builders of the Lau Lagoon, Malaita (Solomon Islands)

15 October 2021

The Line, the Number and the Wheel of Tolai

15 October 2021

Sago Palms and Sago Landscapes

15 October 2021

Living Libraries: Documenting Endangered Munduruku Materiality, Brazilian Amazonia

15 October 2021

Keeping the Hammers’ Voice Alive

15 October 2021

Mapping Lafkenche Foodways: Water-based Livelihoods in the Land of the Sea

10 November 2020

Clothing a Tradition: Endangered Tibetan Material Knowledge in Exile

10 November 2020

Oga Pysy: Guarani and Kaiowá Ceremonial Houses in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

10 November 2020

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

10 November 2020

Documenting Endangered Foodway Heritage of the Baobab Tree Among the Mijikenda of Coastal Kenya

10 November 2020

The Impact of War and the Survival of Tradition: Documenting Zande Slit-Drums (Gugu) in South Sudan

10 November 2020

Andean Potter’s Knowledge: Ceramic Production, Circulation and Use in Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru

10 November 2020

Ende Material Knowledge: Carrying Water, Yams, and Messages

10 November 2020

The Earthen and Organic Materials Technologies of Banda, Ghana

10 November 2020

Feminine Textile Knowledge in Souss-Massa, Southern Morocco

10 November 2020

Recording the Knowledge of Traditional Potters from Vietnam: A Historical Perspective

10 November 2020

Making Things from Animals: Leather Technologies of the Kalahari

10 November 2020

Burden Camels in Somaliland: Disappearing Skilled Practices and Material Heritage

10 November 2020

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

10 November 2020

Last of the Bemba Bark Cloth Makers, Zambia

10 November 2020

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

15 October 2019

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

15 October 2019

Som: Shell Money of northern Vanuatu

15 October 2019

Paper people – making clothing from paper in Japan

15 October 2019

Documenting the Endangered Traditional Broom and Fibre Rope Crafts of the Urhobo People of Nigeria

15 October 2019

Ethnic minorities and threatened materialities in Western Ethiopia

15 October 2019

Wooden reed making of the ethnic Lao Khrang in Thailand

15 October 2019

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

15 October 2019

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

15 October 2019

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

15 October 2019

Research and Digitization of Indigenous Gold Forging in Ghana

15 October 2019

West African wild silks techniques: Preserving Marka-Dafing’s heritage of knowledge

1 October 2019

Digitization of glass bead-making, use and meaning in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria

30 September 2019

Upper Xingu Material Culture in the Past, Present and Future: Collaborative Documentation of a Multiethnic Tradition in Brazilian Amazonia

27 September 2019

Apprehending asapan: documenting the Turkana initiation ceremony

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