Crafting Futures was a three-year British Council global programme supporting the future of craft, its practices and people.
The Crafting Futures programme in Georgia was developed in partnership with the Arts University Plymouth (AUP), the Georgian Arts and Culture Centre (GACC) and the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement (EQE) with the following objectives:
- Provide an increased understanding of craft production and its relationship with craft education in Georgia.
- Establish new educational provision to support the development of the craft sector in Georgia.
- Improve the viability and sustainability of the craft sector in Georgia through the provision of increased production, business and marketing skills for practitioners.
- Improve the international profile and reputation of the craft sector in Georgia.
These objectives were to be achieved through two parallel streams of work:
- Research into learning in the crafts: An examination of culturally specific pedagogic practices across both formal and informal sectors with a particular emphasis on inter-generational and home and community learning.
- Education: The creation of new learning tools and methods for education in the crafts, based on AUP’s Creative Learning approach.
- Crafting Futures South Caucasus Report (PDF, 8 MB)
- Crafting Futures Georgia Final Report (PDF, 2 MB)
