Project _ ECOW - Interregional Entrepreneur
Date_2005 / 2006
Designers_ 5
Artisans_ 12
Sponsor_ INTERREG 2 / European Community - NABA
SWEDN
ITALY
ITALY
ITALY
ITALY
D E S I G N E R
HOW I WORK
Thanks to the work of our international operational network are possible to develop programs with local governments that include:
-The on-field diagnosis
-Improvement of the creativeness and design
-Use of local source materials and techniques
-Accomplishment of training programs
-Technical assistance from the production until the marketing
-The valorization of the cultural identity of the product
-Creation of a "corporate image"
-Creation of packaging systems
We apply the following principles to its programs in search of a harmonic and sustainable development:
- Preservation of local cultures
- Rational use of local raw materials
- Preservation of traditional techniques
- Gender Focus
- Minimization of waste \ Pollution
- Reduction of health and environmental hazards
THE PROJECT
Understood as an agent of change of the productive reality in a total way and as a catalyst of syncretistic reactions; the designer as an acting element inside the collective system of creation and not as an external protagonist of a process.
We are talking about a global methodology, who can be applied also to help the producers of the western countries like Italy, which are trouble because of the crisis, “In the past, I could see what I did had been a success because the owner of the company got a new car, but the workers were stuck in the same situation. Of course, what I do is just a drop in the sea of problems, but I believe in small revolutions.