Mingei Day: sharing knowledge of traditional crafts on international and local level
On March 10, Waag collaborated with several partners to host events in honour of what we have started calling Mingei Day. It included
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mastic
Courting in the mastic fields [chapter 3]
In this third part of the series about a year in a mastic village, we’ll follow the journey of little Dimitris and
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Grab your kenditiria to go to the mastic trees [chapter 2]
In this series of short stories about a year in a mastic village, you will get to follow the journey of little
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If the harvest fly does not sing, it is not summer [chapter 1]
In this series of short stories about a year in a mastic village, you will get to follow the journey of Dimitris
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Mastic villages on Chios
One of Mingei’s pilot studies involves mastic; a product from the mastic tree which exclusively grows in the south-west of Chios in
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Between crafts and computer science
Within the Mingei project, we collect the narratives of individual craftsmen and -women describing how they work. Besides those narratives, it is
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Mingei’s consortium meeting & activities on Chios
From 9 to 13 September 2019, PIOP welcomed all partners to the Mingei Consortium Meeting onChios, Greece, where the Mingei pilot on
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“The Countless Aspects of Beauty” at the Chios Mastic Museum
“The Countless Aspects of Beauty” at the Chios Mastic Museum Man is constantly striving to seek beauty and incorporate it into his everyday
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