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BUTTERFLY WORKS CO-DESIGNS IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
Friday, December 10, 2010
For our project Crafting Peace Butterfly designers travelled to Kabul, Afghanistan.
Read more about this daily-process on our Butterfly Works weblog butterflyworks.wordpress.com
The following two weeks Butterfly Works will stay in Kabul, Afghanistan to co-create design products with local crafts men under the label of ‘Crafting Peace with Boumi’.
Founded by Butterfly Works, Crafting Peace is a design label and philosophy that uses craft as a method to enlarge compassion in the world: stitch by stitch, bead by bead, color by color.
Our approach is to co- design products with craftsmen in fragile countries. On the one hand crafting is an method of tapping someone’s (often undiscovered) potential using hand, head and heart, on the other hand crafting – however graceful, authentic and artistic it may appear – simply means putting bread on the table in some parts of our world.
Read the about the adventures of Hester Ezra and Jo Luymes in Afghanistan on our blog and see some amazing pictures of this exciting process.
See our article on Design.nl. Crafting Peace is also featured on DutchDFA.nl. DutchDFA is proud to be part of this project for the internationalisation of Dutch design.
