Craft Colaborative Fellowship

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Category :
Research
Research Areas :
Designing
Fellowship Provided by :
Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC)
Provided to :
Indian designers and young professionals to develop a range of new products for the terracotta craft community of Gundiyali.

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) provides Craft Colaborative Fellowship for Indian designers and young professionals to develop a range of new products for the terracotta craft community of Gundiyali.

As part of the Craft Experience tourism project, the fellowship is an opportunity for designers to engage and collaboratively work with the craft cluster of Gundiyali. It is a platform where an individual gets to work with a traditional potter family of Gundiyali to create craft design products.

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) is a research centre that aims to promote study and development of traditional and vernacular, building and craft, practices of India; by means of: mapping and documenting buildings and crafts; conducting educational programs and innovation workshops; and independent research alongside collaborative – national and international – research projects, to name a few.

Study Subject:

Applicant can design any of the following: traditional products, utilitarian products, a product for spaces, fashion products, technology with terracotta, Market friendly products.

Provisions

Each fellow will receive a fellowship amount of Rs 25000. This includes the cost of travel, stay and honorarium for the fellow; Any material or craft technique related support will be provided on the field by the organisations.

The scholarship amount will be paid on the successful completion of the fellowship.

Eligibility Criteria :

This fellowship is available for Indian students
The fellowship is open to any designer/design student with a passion to create meaningful design. Age, qualification is not a restriction.

Selection Procedure

The selection is conducted in a two-stage process: stage

Shortlisting of potential candidates on the basis of merit of the proposal and key abilities to achieve the proposed.
The selected candidates will be informed via email and an interview (physical or skype) will be conducted for the final selection.

How to apply

Applicants can fill the form in the Apply Section given in the website https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJIsmC2q_INgLk3XiX7PUKMWeM0PONMsjkx8sQ8KO6fyoXvA/viewform

Each fellow is required to submit the following:

10 innovative-designed products using the traditional craft techniques of Gundiyali
Well documented Photographs of each product, taken against a white background
A detailed report of the fellowship containing: the craft design process, product photographs, Sketches/drawings of the products and probable market where the product can be sold.

Useful Contact

Design Innovation Craft Resource Centre(DICRC),
University Area, Ahmedabad
Mobile No: +916352150588
E-mail: Contact Now
Website: craftcolabrativefellows.com

Tags

designing Fellowship , Fellowship for designers and young professionals , Fellowship for Indian students

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