Craft practices rely on the exchange and transmission of techniques, technical skills, tacit and explicit knowledge about materials and methods but also on the circulation of common values and ethos, fostering shared mindsets and communities.

Many of these communities around the world are developing and passing on these technical and cultural legacies to fellow practitioners, creating cultural and intellectual commons in the same movement, by organizing autonomous conferences, camps, short residency programs, and working collaboratively bringing local and international networks together. This session proposes to bring several of these practitioners together to discuss what their practices create beyond artifacts, and how they contribute to establishing self-determined communities and to fostering commons.

Afroditi Psarra: http://afroditipsarra.com/

Gabrielle Benabdallah: https://gabriellebenabdallah.com/

Heidi Biggs: https://www.heidibiggsdesign.com/

Shih Wei Chieh: https://shihweichieh.com/

Audrey Briot: https://audreybriot.fr/

Amor Muñoz: https://amormunoz.net/

Constanza Piña: https://corazonderobota.wordpress.com/

Cyborgrrrls: https://cyborgrrrls.wordpress.com/

Our Networks: https://ournetworks.ca