All tagged innovation
In this photo essay, textile designer Emilee Koss highlights the annual silkworm festival fashion show in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This event was created by Kikuo Morimoto (1948-2017), the Japanese founder of the weaving cooperative “Institute of Khmer Traditional Textiles”, drawing on traditional Buddhist rituals as well as adapting them to showcase the textiles.
An interview with Chandan Bose about his latest book “Perspectives on Work, Home, and Identity From Artisans in Telangana: Conversations Around Craft”. In this interview, the author discusses some of the core ideas in his ethnographic analysis of ritual scroll painters in South India.
A think-piece on the value of innovation in the “just do it” age of late capitalism. The author, James Bielo, parses jugaad as frugality, experimentation and creativity, and illustrates his point through a brief description of two historical figures: Brother John’s making of the Ave Maria Grotto in Alabama as well as the carvings of Elijah Pierce, an African-American self-taught artist from Mississippi.
