From 26 June to 6 July, Eina is taking part in the organisation of Contemporary Crafts and Postdigital Design in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), a training programme promoted by the Spanish Cooperation’s ACERCA Programme. The initiative brings together makers, craftspeople and design professionals to explore new relationships between traditional craft practices and digital technologies.
The programme features Anna Pujadas, coordinator of Eina’s Advanced Studies Programme in Contemporary Crafts and Design, alongside lecturers Grazielle Bruscato and Javier Nieto. Over the course of ten days, participants will develop their own projects while engaging with topics such as identity, materials, digital fabrication, parametric thinking, artificial intelligence and new communication tools applied to contemporary craft practices.
The initiative brings to an international audience the philosophy behind Eina’s Advanced Studies Programme in Contemporary Crafts and Design, a pioneering educational proposal that places craft at the centre of current debates on innovation, sustainability and technological transformation. The programme is founded on the idea that traditional crafts not only preserve cultural knowledge, but can also create new creative and professional opportunities when combined with tools such as digital fabrication, computational modelling and artificial intelligence.
This initiative strengthens Eina’s international profile and highlights the growing interest in contemporary craft practices that, far from being rooted in the past, explore new forms of creation through the dialogue between traditional know-how and the tools of the future.
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