https://padlet.com/moni_10174/aoyghe1gs17p Design intervention and craft revival en-us 2018-09-10 16:00:11 UTC 2026-03-09 13:08:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png moni_10174 https://padlet.com/moni_10174/aoyghe1gs17p/wish/279529975  Handicrafts have been a traditional craft and the skill of making handicraft has been passed in families from generation to generation. Millions of Indians still depend on indigenous modes of production, traditional skills and techniques to make a living based on handmade products. They are an unique expression of a particular culture or community through local craftsmanship and materials. With increased globalization, however, products are becoming more and more commoditized and artisans find their products competing with goods from all over the world.  These deep-rooted traditional handmade products out, replacing them with mass,factory–made, machine crafts .   
 The artisans are trained in the art forms by their ancestors over generations and craft was not about making a simple product. Rather, it was about a historic legacy of generations and centuries, a tedious brutal labour and a proud skill, a battle between tradition and industrial modernity, an expression of unique style and a vision of revival, all connected to the heart and spirit of each individual artisan. ]]> 2018-09-10 17:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/moni_10174/aoyghe1gs17p/wish/279529975 moni_10174 https://padlet.com/moni_10174/aoyghe1gs17p/wish/279552753  While design intervention in crafts is welcomed by some as a necessity and an opportunity for exploring new prospects and help in craft revival, it is often considered by others as a threat. 
CRAFT  can be defined as those activities that deal with the conversion of specific materials into products, using primarily hand skills with simple tools and employing the local traditional wisdom of craft processes. Such activities usually form the core economic activity of a community of people called ‘craftsmen’.
DESIGN is considered a cross functional and multidisciplinary innovation activity having the ability to shape any idea and translate them into appealing and practical propositions.
 In India the craft and design sectors share a symbiotic relationship. Through craft the designer connects with the natural world and the collective past. Traditional craft skills are adapted to contemporary design 
 Designers bridge the gap between the market and the artisan, as today the artisan is geographically apart from his/her client, to be able to understand his/her aesthetic and socio-cultural needs.  Designers are thus an interface, between the past and the present, the traditional and the modern.
 Collaborative innovation between designer and craftsperson is a means of expanding the craft vocabulary and tapping contemporary markets.  Design intervention can help bring in the much needed empathetic understanding and holistic vision to connect and integrate the various efforts towards a positive outcome. One would come across amazing indigenous innovations in India that can be developed into marketable products and thereby help in 

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