All Ongoing Projects

107 Ongoing Projects

27 July 2026

Technology and usage of Gbà’s bark clothing among the Tikar of central Cameroon

27 July 2026

Safeguarding the Craft of Scissor-Net Making and Collective Fishing on the Pilcomayo River, Gran Chaco

27 July 2026

Cholanaicken Basket Weaving Documentation Project

27 July 2026

Boleadora: material knowledge, technological memory, and identity in Patagonia

27 July 2026

Siratany: Documenting the Traditional Earth Salt Industry of Southwest Madagascar

27 July 2026

Sereke pua: documenting Solomon Islands’ last pottery making tradition

27 July 2026

Documenting the production of traditional fishing tools and their use in freshwater environments of Meghalaya, India

27 July 2026

Stone Tidal Weirs as Living Coastal Infrastructure: Documenting Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Philippines

27 July 2026

Documenting the Carving Practices and Cultural Biography of Ibani Canoes, Bonny Island, Nigeria

27 July 2026

Ahia-Akwete Multi-Heddle Cloth Weaving Production of Akwete People in Nigeria

27 July 2026

The Caged Bird Sings: documenting Luo bird baskets and the material culture of bird trapping in Homa Bay County, Kenya

27 July 2026

Hands of the Earth: The Last Potters of Vanuatu

27 July 2026

Shades of blue: traditional indigo dyeing in the Barrio de Mexicanos, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas

27 July 2026

Documenting the Indigenous Material and Social Repertoires of Earthern Granaries in Nakpanduri, Northeastern Ghana

27 July 2026

Food Knowledge under Pressure: Climate, Conflict, and Endangered Bakarwal Pastoral Practices in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

27 July 2026

Safeguarding Ancestral Dyeing and Weaving Knowledge: Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Women of the Pacific Coast

27 July 2026

The Geometry of the Sharai: Documenting the Endangered Motifs and Material Knowledge of the Gents’ Hand-Woven Blanket in Islampur

27 July 2026

Jeipya: Knowledge and Practices of Native Cotton and Weaving among Paĩ Tavyterã Women

27 July 2026

Gulazyk – The Ancestral Food of Nomads

27 July 2026

House-Making in the Andean Highlands: Manual, Embodied and Digital Documentation of Earthen Construction Techniques in Argentina

27 July 2026

From the Gran Chaco to the Atacama Desert. Weaving Knowledge and Practices with Plant Fibers among Qom and Aymara people

27 July 2026

Mud Black: Documenting Traditional Mud Dyeing for Bumthang Wool Textiles in Bhutan

27 July 2026

Climate change and barkcloth (tapa) art among the Maisin people of Papua New Guinea (PNG)

27 July 2026

Hunter-gatherer material world under threat among the Aché of Alto Paraná (Paraguay)

27 July 2026

Box of Souls: Ritual and Memory in the Audiovisual Collection of the Asuriní of Xingu

27 July 2026

Digitising 20th century records documenting material knowledge systems of the last traditional potters in the Western Balkans

27 July 2026

Documenting Endangered Brass-Working Knowledge among the Konyak Naga Tribe of Nagaland, India

27 July 2026

Harar, the Traditional Woven Grass Mats of the Somali Pastoral Nomads: An Endangered Cultural Material Knowledge

2 September 2025

Weaving ancestral knowledge: Basketry digitalization from the native peoples of Tierra del Fuego

2 September 2025

Mapping Threatened Transhumant Routes in Southwestern Angola

2 September 2025

A Stick in Time: Documenting Traditional Stilt Construction of the Nzulezo Community, Ghana

2 September 2025

As Gods come to Play: Preserving the Legacy of the Endangered Dashavatara Cards of Bishnupur

2 September 2025

The Changing Faces of Aruba: Collaborative Project of Documentation of a Mask of the Urarina People, Peruvian Amazon

2 September 2025

The Dung Corrals of the Ak-Say Valley, Kyrgyz Republic

2 September 2025

Material knowledge system associated to the hunting with fire of the A’uwé Xavante people in Central Brazil

2 September 2025

Nautical Atlas of Magdalena Medio’s Traditional Vessels

2 September 2025

Knotted Survivors: Documenting the Ancient Khipu Traditions of Jucul, Peru

2 September 2025

From cloth to codices: investigating the purported kinship between two endangered fiber arts traditions in Mexico

2 September 2025

Etchings from the Land: Traditional Ink-Making Practices in Sikkim

2 September 2025

Stone Stories: Documenting the Practices, Knowledge, and Skills of Stone Masonry Building among the Yucatec Maya of Campeche (Mexico)

2 September 2025

Traditional Image-Casting in Thailand

2 September 2025

Documenting the making and uses of Bàtá, a Yoruba sacred drum ensemble (Southwestern Nigeria)

2 September 2025

Documenting Traditional Samoan Architecture

2 September 2025

Traditional Construction Systems and Indigenous Materials in the Pir Panjal Region of the Lower Himalayas

2 September 2025

Documenting the Endangered Canoe-Building Knowledge of the Vezo-Tanalana People of Southwest Madagascar

12 August 2025

The Reeds Kingdom: Documenting Iraq’s Marshland Communities and their Endangered Practices

12 August 2025

Securing Cosmic Balance in an Uncertain World: Documenting Asmat Longhouse (Jee) Construction in Papua, Indonesia

12 August 2025

Documentation of the endangered material knowledge system of Tolögu (Nias sword) from South Nias, Indonesia

4 August 2025

From Earth to Inhabited Space: Life Cycle of Mud Plastering in the Tribal Agricultural Landscape of Jharkhand

3 September 2024

Documenting the endangered mask-making craft of the Gule Wamkulu cultural dance among the Nyau secret societies of Malawi

3 September 2024

Kathputli ka khel: Preserving the soul of Kathputli through documentation of its material culture and practices

3 September 2024

Rural Architecture of the Toros Mountains, Turkey

2 September 2024

Lata Cultural Voyaging School Food Preparation and Preservation Techniques of Taumako

2 September 2024

Weaving rivers and connecting communities: Documenting endangered traditional practices and associated knowledge among the Ye’Kwana indigenous people, Brazil

2 September 2024

Nomadic conical tent among reindeer herders of Mongolia: documenting skin tanning, birch bark crafting and construction of dwelling

2 September 2024

Traditions of Artificial-Island Construction in the Western Pacific Islands

2 September 2024

In Search of Bithooras: Documenting the making and unmaking of decorated cow-dung fuel stores in the villages of south Delhi.

2 September 2024

Preserving Endangered Traditional Bamboo and Wooden Watermill of Minangkabau Culture Through Participatory Documentation Project

2 September 2024

Everyday tools for reproducing personhood in Guyanese Amazonia

2 September 2024

Documenting endangered traditional fishing technologies among the Kalapalo, Southern Amazon.

2 September 2024

Safeguarding the lifecycle of the “Jea”: Construction, utilisation and cosmology of an Indigenous Achuar House in the Central Western Amazon

2 September 2024

Documenting the Traditional fishing Methods of Amvrakikos and Messolonghi/Aetoliko Wetlands in Greece

2 September 2024

Documenting the craft of creating floating dwellings in the socio-ecological landscape of Kashmir Valley, India

2 September 2024

Documenting Indigenous Enset Food System of the Gamo People in Southern Ethiopia

2 September 2024

RESONATING MWENJE: Documenting the timbila making process and the techniques of the masters from Zavala, Mozambique.

2 September 2024

Coral stone house construction on the Swahili coast (Lamu, Kenya)

2 September 2024

Endangered inter-generational knowledge and practice for Black Seminole descendants of Andros Island

2 September 2024

The Konso Agricultural Landscape: Documenting Traditional Terracing Systems in South-West Ethiopia

2 September 2024

A documentation of weaving and designs of aṣọ òfì: alápásá, alábẹ, jáwùú and other decorative yorùbá woven fabrics

2 September 2024

Made in Montserrat – Legacy Digitization for Material Objects in the National Museum of Montserrat Collection

2 September 2024

Documenting Material Knowledge of Brass Adornments of the Ilongot (Bugkalot) of Northeastern Luzon, Philippines

22 August 2023

Lake Turkana, in the making: documenting the mobile material knowledge of drylands pastoralism in northern Kenya

22 August 2023

Documenting the Last Lithic Technologists: A Study of Stone Tool Usage Among Daasanach Pastoralists of East Turkana, Kenya.

22 August 2023

Documenting the Endangered ‘Pet Uno’, ‘Canang Ceureukeh’, and ‘Alee Tunjang’ as Indigenous Forest and Agriculture Rituals in Aceh, Indonesia

22 August 2023

Weaving fibres of resistance: Tikuna tree bark and identity in the Amazon

22 August 2023

Foggaras: Water production in the Adrar palm grove oases (Sahara, Algeria)

22 August 2023

Dancing for Life: Documenting Cashinahua ritual paraphernalia in Peruvian Amazonia

22 August 2023

Palm Weaving: A Coptic Living Heritage Under-threat

22 August 2023

Documentation of Soga Emas rattan utilisation within Dayak Bidayuh Jagoi traditional agriculture system

22 August 2023

Documenting endangered material knowledge of making and playing Jahla in Hormozgan, south of Iran

22 August 2023

Taming the fluids: Documentation of traditional water, milk and living containers of the Gabra and Borana of northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia

22 August 2023

Rock Art Inter-Ontologies: Ethnography and Digital Safeguarding of Kumuã Knowledge on Petroglyph Sacred Places in Northwest Amazonia

12 August 2022

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

12 August 2022

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

12 August 2022

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

12 August 2022

Recording traditional Western Moldavian (north-eastern Romania and south-western Ukraine) pottery: disappearing skills, knowledge and vessels

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

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

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

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

15 October 2021

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

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

Living Libraries: Documenting Endangered Munduruku Materiality, Brazilian Amazonia

15 October 2021

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

10 November 2020

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

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

Feminine Textile Knowledge in Souss-Massa, Southern Morocco

15 October 2019

Som: Shell Money of northern Vanuatu

30 September 2019

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

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