New Territories of Craft Practices

This Advanced Studies Course, part of the Diploma in Contemporary Crafts and Design, offers hands-on immersion in the creation and development of craft objects from a contemporary perspective. The training combines traditional processes with digital tools and experimental approaches to meet creative and market needs. Students experience all phases of the design and production process, from idea generation to the formalization and projection of the craft product. 

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→ From 3 February  to 2 July 2026
→ Tuesday and Thursday, from 4.30 pm to 8 pm., plus 4 Saturday for visits. Also includes self-assessment online content
→ On-site 
→ 15 ECTS 
→ €2,295 
→ Registration open

This course, together with the Craft Edition and Production programme, is part of the Advanced Studies Diploma in Contemporary Crafts and Design at Eina. 

Target Audience 

The course is aimed at students and professionals from Fine Arts, Design, Engineering, Architecture, Product Development, and related applied arts fields. It is also suitable for those wishing to expand creative skills or specialize in contemporary craft techniques, emerging materials, and design methodologies applied to crafts. 

Objectives 

• Develop craft design processes based on material, technological, and conceptual research. 
• Integrate project-based methodologies in the creation of innovative craft products. 
• Consolidate the use of digital techniques for representation and prototyping. 
• Encourage creativity and artistic vocations in current professional contexts. 
• Promote research in new materials and technologies applied to crafts. 
• Foster collaboration between creators and production sectors, enhancing knowledge transfer. 
• Promote values aligned with Sustainable Development Goals through education. 
• Prepare professionals capable of entrepreneurship or joining companies with specialized technical and creative profiles. 

Professional Opportunities 

The skills acquired in this course allow access to multiple roles within the creative industries. Graduates may pursue careers as contemporary artisans, product designers, independent creators, collaborators in studios and agencies, or professionals linked to craft and manufacturing brands. 

Additionally, the program opens pathways for academic and research trajectories in design, applied arts, and crafts, providing a solid foundation for further training or specialization in specific fields. 

Curriculum of New Territories of Craft Practices 

Crafts and Design Processes (3 ECTS) 
Apply design thinking as an iterative process for craft creation. Explore the construction of structures and surfaces that may become typological. Build forms and create parametric families of craft product models. Learn to generate samples of a model in different sizes, combinations, and outcomes. 

Crafts and Materials (3 ECTS) 
Explore traditional craft know-how through materials such as plaster, clay, wood, metals, fibers, and newer ones like biomaterials. Guide students toward discovering their personal sensitivity to materials and open them to contemporary, future-oriented professional practice. 

Craft Forms (6 ECTS) 
Explore and experiment with archetypal traditional craft products (jug, porrón, poncho, basket, tile, and many others). Typological forms perfected through successive generations. Students are encouraged to expand knowledge of materials and traditional methods into new territories of practice open to alternative materials, conceptual frameworks, and cross-sectoral understanding of material-led innovation. Generate a personal archetype and develop it as a marketable item. 

Living Crafts 01 (1 ECTS) 
Through collaborations with artisans and prestigious craft brands, and workshops taught by local and international artisans, students experience all creation stages: from object ideation to completion. Conceptual analyses on craft, lectures by experts, and visits to artisans and workshops. Activities vary each academic year. 

Crafts and Discourses 01 (1 ECTS, online content) 
Focused content with ideas and contemporary practice models that expand understanding of craft and its relation to current debates. Introduces references, themes, and general concepts (historical, cultural, social, artistic, political, environmental, and economic). This first part emphasizes references. 

Crafts and Design Management 01 (1 ECTS, online content) 
Train new professionals in specialization and excellence to develop their own businesses as entrepreneurs. Design strategies to add value to products (concept, image, communication). This first part focuses on communication and dissemination of created products. 

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