Deliverables

Report on establishment of the network of municipalities, heritage sites and museums participating at the Living Lab

The report describes the work done in the first six months of the Hephaestus project in order to establish a network participating at the Future Crafts Green Living Lab.

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Data Management Plan

The HEPHAESTUS project is a Horizon 2022 research and innovation action providing open access data. This deliverable, the Data Management Plan (DMP), describes the project´s action plan for managing data by describing the data management policies to be used in the project.

In this deliverable, the data management plan structure, data types and preservation, ethics to be followed, intellectual property rights will be presented. The DMP is an Open Research Data Pilot document that will be periodically updated from its creation to the end of the HEPHAESTUS project.

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Visual Identity and Digital Experience of the Project

The Report describes the development of the project visual identity and website of the HEPHAESTUS project with the objective to guarantee an effective communication of the project messages and activities at Local, National and EU level.

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A report on the perceived educational gaps among craft-makers

The goal of this deliverable is to identify and address educational gaps in craft-making skills across various ecosystems in Europe. By analyzing craft-makers’ needs in Italy, Denmark, and Sweden, the project aims to create a comprehensive framework for relevant craft skills and methods for skill acquisition. The findings will inform future efforts in Work Package 4, supporting the professional development of craft-makers through targeted education and tailored services.

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Establishment of a network on craft

The aim of this deliverable is to detail the objectives, activities, and accomplishments of the HEPHAESTUS project team in developing and enhancing an arts and crafts ecosystem across Europe. It outlines the programmatic goals for creating a robust craft-based network and highlights the main outcomes achieved through collaboration with partners, stakeholders, and policymakers. The report showcases the formation of a genuine network for developing craft-based cultural ecosystems via territorial dissemination actions and extensive digital storytelling and web communication efforts.

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Report for policymakers with strategies for sustainable craft ecosystem management and heritage preservation

This deliverable aims to outline the methodology developed within the Hephaestus project to enhance craft ecosystem management and heritage preservation in Europe through informed policymaking. It explores the historical evolution of craft, its relationship with other sectors, and the current state of craft policies in Europe. By identifying policy gaps and presenting insights from fieldwork activities, the report offers relevant themes for policy interventions. Additionally, it provides methodological guidelines to support historical analysis and participatory activities, aimed at developing effective policy interventions for the craft sector.

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Briefs for business transformation and policymaking

The deliverable’s purpose is twofold: on the one hand, to underscore flaws in official classifications and databases and outline guidelines for the project’s partners to constitute a robust database despite the limitations of official data sources; on the other hand, to propose a series of policy recommendations precisely addressing the flaws underscored during the data collection process.

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Commoning through institutional aesthetics: Crafting frames, boundaries and reflections in practice

The document examines how institutional aesthetics can be employed to foster ‘commoning’ practices—collaborative efforts to create and manage shared resources. It discusses how crafting specific frames, boundaries, and reflective practices within institutions can support collective cultural and social initiatives. The study highlights the role of design and aesthetics in enabling inclusive participation and shared governance, contributing to the preservation and innovation of cultural heritage.

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Creation and diffusion of craft histories

This report illustrates the methodology that Ca’ Foscari University first experienced and then shared with the Hephæstus project partnership in order to build narratives about arts and crafts in Europe. Starting from the field research carried out as part of the project’s activities, in fact, the team is collecting photographs, videos, narratives and creative materials useful for divulging in an unusual way the world of crafts related to the four ecosystems: Venice, Bassano del Grappa, Dals Långed and Bornholm. The Craft Histories thus constructed will represent a unique way to approach the world of craft and discover it through the eyes of researchers who will have explored its different features and resources.

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Report describing the process for implementing technologies in craft processes

This report provides an overview of how digital fabrication technologies are applied in craft processes, exploring the positive outcomes of integrating traditional know-how with modern technologies. It emphasizes the pivotal role of fablabs in fostering grassroots innovation and supporting artisans in creating sustainable, innovative productions. By combining insights from European labs and FabLab Venezia, a scorecard analysis was conducted to assess the impact of digital technologies on social innovation and craft business models. The report also introduces an operational toolkit designed to help craft makers implement digital fabrication, laying the foundation for a methodology that integrates technology, sustainability, and social responsibility to support future-oriented craft businesses.

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With Latour in Our Hands: Discovering the Politics of Organizing and the Aesthetic Matter of Things

The document examines how traditional craft practices can be reimagined through speculative design approaches. It explores how this combination can contribute to cultural heritage preservation while also addressing contemporary challenges. By integrating traditional knowledge with modern technologies, the text highlights how new narratives and innovative practices can emerge to safeguard and reinterpret heritage for the future.

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Reorganizing Public Value for City Life in the Anthropocene

This document explores how urban environments can respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene era, a time defined by significant human impact on Earth’s systems. It focuses on redefining public value in cities by integrating sustainability, cultural heritage, and innovation. The work contributes to broader efforts under the EU-funded HEPHAESTUS project, which aims to preserve and advance cultural heritage through new technologies.

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A new life-long learning methodology for craft-makers

A methodology to provide necessary training and micro-credentialing in skills and key competences for the facilitation of craft making as a vehicle for social cohesion and personal and professional fulfilment, including: digital and technology- based competences, interpersonal and intergenerational learning skills on active citizenship, entrepreneurship, cultural awareness and expression, gender gap awareness in craft ecosystems and how to address it.

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Report on the establishment of the Living Lab

This deliverable documents the establishment of the HEPHAESTUS Green Living Lab (HGLL) on Bornholm, Denmark. It outlines the conceptual foundations, co-creation processes, stakeholder engagement, implementation activities, and evaluation framework used to develop the Living Lab. Guided by New European Bauhaus values and Living Lab principles, the HGLL connects craft heritage with circular economy experimentation, positioning Bornholm as a “test island” for sustainable innovation in the craft sector.

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Report on the vision think tank

This deliverable documents the HEPHAESTUS Vision Think Tank, developed within the EU Horizon project HEPHAESTUS to foster innovation, sustainability, and policy development in Europe’s craft sectors. Building on Bornholm’s Maker’s Island initiative, this flexible, multi-stakeholder platform connects craft makers, businesses, academia, and waste management authorities like BOFA to drive sustainable business practices and circular economy strategies. Leveraging local insights, such as the “Bornholm without Waste 2032” initiative and innovative approaches by craft artists, the think tank supports decentralized, technology-driven craft practices. Through collaborative, adaptive structures, it aims to influence policy, enhance professional skills, and ensure lasting economic, cultural, and environmental sustainability.

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Media Review: Crafting Traditions and Speculative Imaginaries

The document discusses how traditional craft practices can be reimagined through speculative design approaches. It explores how this combination can contribute to cultural heritage preservation while also addressing contemporary challenges. By integrating traditional knowledge with modern technologies, the text highlights how new narratives and innovative practices can emerge to safeguard and reinterpret heritage for the future.

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Conferences and events on craft

This deliverable documents the transformation of Task 6.3 dissemination activities within the HEPHAESTUS project. Originally focused on organizing three independent conferences, the approach was revised following the formation of the CRAFTOUR cluster—an EU-supported alliance of six major craft-related projects. Two conferences were successfully integrated into larger joint events: a Policy Round Table in Brussels and a scientific conference in Antwerp. This strategic shift, approved by the European Commission, amplified the project’s visibility, stakeholder reach, and policy relevance.

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Report for researchers on the methodology of mapping craft values and analyzing craft controversies

This report presents an original craft mapping methodology that combines ethnographic methods, historical approaches and designmapping methods to examine the values of craft in an ecosystem. The report also presents the research results from the craft mapping methodology of HEPHAESTUS which has been used in each of the four European craft ecosystems in focus and across them. This methodology has allowed the project: to observe their socio-economic and cultural infrastructures; to capture their historical and contemporary identities; to untangle the current urgencies of the members of the ecosystems and their degree of resistance and acceptance towards cutting-edge technologies and sustainability and to map their values. By unpacking sustainability and digitalisation as key controversies, the report highlights how heritage crafts both face risks and generate new pathways for renewal.

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Report on the craft-technology innovation methodology

This deliverable outlines a craft-technology innovation framework that uses digital tools and cooperative models to embed the New European Bauhaus (NEB) principles — Beautiful, Sustainable, Together — into contemporary craft practices. Developed by FabLab Venezia, CBS, and UNIVE with input from UGOT, it combines theory and practical tools for awareness, experimentation, and lifelong learning. The framework shows how technology can sustain craft innovation, preserve cultural heritage, and foster inclusion, offering policymakers and practitioners a roadmap for sustainable and creative transformation across Europe’s craft sectors.

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Report on the speculative design process with craft makers

Report of the speculative design trajectory, tracing how art- based research, critical fabulation, and participatory methods were used to engage craft-makers in imagining future craft– technology hybrids. It details three major research output phases, Atmospheres of Craft, A Brave New World, and Brave New World Sketches, showing how each phase generated sensory archives, speculative narratives, public dialogues, and eventually co-created prototypes. It demonstrates how these iterative exhibitions served as tools for reflection, education, and community-building across four craft ecosystems. It further synthesizes craft-makers’ expressed needs and desires around sustainability, community, and the redefinition of progress and time. These findings form the conceptual basis for subsequent project activities, including the Green Living Lab, educational programs, and the upcoming Task 3.2 documentary film.

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Report on the digitisation process of craft museums

This deliverable examines how digital technologies mediate craft heritage across institutional and contemporary artistic contexts. It combines the digitisation of 512 objects from Palazzo Sturm in Bassano del Grappa with interviews with craft makers in Bornholm, including artists involved in the Sustainable Craft competition during the Craft and Kultur Uger. Using an ethnographic, multi-sited approach, the report shows that digital tools support preservation, access, and dissemination, while remaining closely shaped by material qualities, expert judgement, and embodied craft knowledge. The findings suggest that digitisation is best understood as a hybrid socio-material process in which heritage objects and contemporary craft are translated and reinterpreted across physical and digital environments.

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Report with new business models for sustainable craft

This deliverable develops an empirically grounded understanding of sustainable business models for craft within the HEPHAESTUS project. Drawing on fieldwork, case studies, and participatory educational activities conducted across the project’s regional craft ecosystems, the report examines how craft makers and related organizations create and sustain economic, cultural, social, and ecological value. Using the Business Model Canvas as a selective analytical framework, it identifies recurring themes and tensions related to value proposition, customer relationships, place, temporality, growth, education, and sustainability. These insights informed the development of a practical reflection toolkit that supports craft makers and stakeholders in critically assessing their business practices and identifying opportunities for future sustainable development.

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