Join us in welcoming Threads of Peru artisans to the GlobeIn family! (Some of you have received their creations in the GlobeIn Box this month.) Threads of Peru started as Project Peru, which was created by a class of Interdisciplinary Design students at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. The class was taught by Adam Foster Collins, who wanted students to see that Design is a social process, whose greatest strength lies in drawing out the collective strengths of people working collaboratively across boundaries of culture and discipline. He got the class to make the presentations on different areas of the world. The most interesting and touching was the presentation about indigenous people of Peru and their traditional weaving. These people produced beautiful clothing but still struggled to educate and even to feed their families. The students decided to help the artisans. They designed a campaign, crafted events, had yard sales and even painted houses to raise money for the project that turned to be the whole charity organization. Nowadays Threads of Peru works to alleviate poverty and revitalize cultural traditions in rural indigenous communities.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:00:01 +0000
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