ICOMOS Webinar Series | ICOMOS India
ICOMOS Webinar Series | ICOMOS India
“Crafts Communities in India; Lessons of resilience in context of disasters and pandemics (a historic perspective)”
India is known for its diverse crafts and their relationships with the tangible and intangible heritage of the country. Artisan communities, who are at the core of the creative processes of production of crafts, are often marginalised in the social hierarchies and end up as most vulnerable in situations of distress.
While production of artefact, as valued to be heritage, may or may not have been a source of livelihood for communities, disasters and pandemics have historically forced them to abandon them to take up other vocations/ occupations, sometimes at the risk of losing the knowledge of producing a craft.
In many situations, these communities have reoriented themselves in producing artefacts, albeit in a much modified context, with altered relationships to resources and markets.
This webinar presents four case studies from different parts of the country with a historic perspective of crafts communities and the lessons of resilience that are embedded in their response to such situations. The webinar brings together individuals who have led movements of crafts revival in their respective regions.
4:30 -6:30pm IST
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