Wisdom held in the hands
How are skills and sensations that are hard to put into words passed on at work?
CRAFT & FUTUREWhat endures
Tradition and the future
What endures
through change.
Bringing accumulated craftsmanship into the lives of tomorrow. Discover the ingenuity between preserving and changing.
Tradition does not survive simply by keeping old forms intact. As people’s lives change, how things are made and delivered must be questioned too. Work for the next era begins by looking at the values we do not want to lose amid change.
Explore stories on this themeWhat this theme explores
Staying close to the people who use what we make
Repairing, continuing to use, passing on. We consider that time as part of making things too.
Experiments for the future
How do encounters with new materials and tools change the work we have inherited?
Stories of tradition and the future
2 stories
The sale is only
the beginning.
Repairing things, connecting lives.
The story of a second-generation furniture workshop owner
To preserve,
we keep evolving.
Carrying the culture of wood a hundred years forward.
The story of a third-generation woodworking business owner