Crafting Futures Central Asia
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Simmons2
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-Component Output with Contextual Information
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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https://kazakhstan.britishcouncil.org/programmes/arts/crafting-futures/programme-activities
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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8
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Crafting Futures Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan is a programme of research led by Tom Simmons with Dr Eleanor Dare, Dinara Chochunbaeva, Oksana Kononova and Iskender Osmoev as part of the British Council’s Crafting Futures Central Asia programme. The research investigates the value of intercultural dialogue, exchange and collective learning in addressing global and regional threats to material and intangible craft practices and heritages in Kyrgyzstan. It examines how issues voiced by Kyrgyz craftspeople, leaders and policy makers could be amplified in support of critical dialogues addressing histories of marginalisation in practice, education and enterprise. The project establishes de/post-colonial approaches for working with Kyrgyz craftspeople and organisations to collectively research the situated and largely tacit community knowledge of craft in Kyrgyzstan and its surrounding networks of meaning and risk. This includes co-creating formats and methods for peer support and exchange, intergenerational storytelling and communication, and consolidating and enhancing access to information about crafts practices in and beyond the region. The initial phases of the research were developed through a scoping visit and pilot project involving over 150 craft practitioners and organisations to establish networks, share knowledge, and collectively agree research questions and ways of working together. The findings of these activities, published in two reports (the latter as a working paper), suggested scope for supporting inclusive and critical crafts policy dialogues, international exchanges, and communication and leadership training. This has informed the current phase of the research (November 2020–March 2022), which focuses on co-developing the first national collective mapping of craft activities in Kyrgyzstan and co-creating a training guide to inform practice, education and advocacy.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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