NEWS & EVENTS

Measuring the impact of your communications, dissemination and exploitation in EU-funded projects

May 23, 2022September 13, 2022

Authors: Nicole McNeilly, Nikolaos Partarakis, Xenophon Zabulis, Merel van der Vaart Waag and the Mingei partners have been collaborating intensely to optimise the [...]

What makes impactful communications and dissemination?

May 23, 2022September 13, 2022

Authors: Nicole McNeilly and Dennis ter Borg As part of the Mingei project, we researched this important question by using a Teams-Based Inquiry [...]

Chios Mastic Museum and the Mingei apps – a journey through the eyes of its visitors

May 23, 2022September 13, 2022

Authors: Danae Kaplanidi, Eleana Tasiopoulou, Katerina Ziova, Christodoulos Riggas The Chios Mastic Museum, located on the Greek island of Chios, is home to [...]

Hand Made – Long Live Crafts

May 9, 2022May 9, 2022

Photo’s by Lotte Stekelenburg for Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. In the spring of 2013, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam hosted the exhibition [...]

Shetland Wool Week

May 3, 2022September 13, 2022

Shetland Wool Week is an annual event created in 2009 celebrating “Britain’s most northerly native sheep, the Shetland textile industry and the rural [...]

Mingei Day: sharing knowledge of traditional crafts on international and local level

April 2, 2022May 27, 2022

On March 10, Waag collaborated with several partners to host events in honour of what we have started calling Mingei Day. It included [...]

International webinar Mingei Day – Preserving heritage crafts using technology

February 22, 2022September 13, 2022

How can we use technology to digitally preserve traditional and industrial crafts for the future? Heritage, museum, technological and craft professionals from all [...]

Council Craft Antoine Peters Zeeuws Museum

Online workshop Mingei Day in A’dam- Traditional textile crafts

February 17, 2022March 7, 2022

On 10 March in the evening globally renowned fashion designer Antoine Peters, speaker of the evening, shares his passion for the craft of [...]

DigiTraining: Mingei Online Platform supports in representation of cultural heritage

February 9, 2022February 24, 2022

The DigiTaining Project which will run until July 2022, responds to the urgent need for providing specific support to the cultural and creative [...]

Close-up of design on point-paper. Each line on the point-paper design is translated into a line of dots on the punch-card, like the ones we see in the next photo.

Almost forgotten vocation of point paper designer continued in textile sector

February 1, 2022September 13, 2022

An almost forgotten vocation in the textile sector is that of the point paper designer who, like the pattern designer, also has to [...]