The collaborative project ‘Future Heritage’ wants to transform local heritage and knowledge for a sustainable, global society. The project will highlight cultural heritage in Palestine, which is disappearing and reproduce it in new forms and techniques in order to develop and promote heritage locally and internationally.
‘Future Heritage’ is a cooperation project between Ramallah Municipality, Palestine and Public Art Lab, Berlin in the field of visual arts, handcrafts and technology.
The local communities (handicraftsmen and -women in the field of embroidery and pottery) create together with artists, designers and technologists new objects and patterns, which will be enhanced through new technologies. In Ramallah we will conjointly host the heart of the project: a 4-days Prototyping Lab, taking place in the Community Art Centre in Ramallah.
German and Palestinian artists/ designers/ technologists will develop together with local handicraftsmen/-women art projects to augment and rethink local heritage. Together they will develop three art projects with local handicraftsmen/-women to enhance the local heritage using technologies like i.e. 3D-Printing/Scanning, Knitting Machines, Lasercutting and many more.
With local cultures at the heart we want to promote a sustainable transformation of heritage, thereby addressing issues like the revaluation of art within craft, the recuperation and actualisation of cultural traditions, explore the artistic potential of local businesses in networked societies and develop the city’s tourism strategy. The project will build a socio-cultural cooperation model between artists, the local community and handicraftsmen & -women to re-create meaning and value of their culture and deepen the appreciation of crafts and materials.
Future Heritage is a project by Sally Abu Bakr (Ramallah Municipality – Ramallah) and Jasmin Grimm (Public Art Lab – Berlin) in the framework of the cultural manager exchange programme TANDEM SHAML 2015/2016.
