Abstract

Culture in the province of interior Sind of Pakistan is rich with local artisans having tremendous skills to produce crafts as part of their everyday lives. Sind has always been appreciated for textiles, pottery, clay, carved furniture etc, but due to lack of documentation of numerous craft skills, most underdeveloped villages do not get opportunity to showcase their handicrafts to the masses. The purpose of the project is to document and identify challenges of financial sustainability of rural women artisans of the province of Sind and their collaboration with designers through middlemen. The research identifies these women seeking formal training in order to evolve themselves in today’s modern contemporary design era. For better economic stability, these women artisans have felt the urge to independently communicate with different private organisations and designers, by co-designing through recycling and reusing their already made crafts. The research uses qualitative methods involving primary and secondary sources by documenting economic and environmental hardships, local women of interior Sind face that reflect upon the crafts they produce.

Presenters

Faiqa Jalal
Assistant Professor, Foundation Program, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Sind (en), Pakistan

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life

KEYWORDS

Handicrafts, Sustainability, Middleman, Artisans, Co-designing, Contemporary design

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