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Project Ødeland

Project Ødeland: Reimagining waste, redefining aesthetics

What role does sustainability play in aesthetic practice? This powerful question framed a panel discussion held during the exhibition Ødeland at Officinet, Copenhagen in March 2025.
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Crafting technologies

Crafting technologies? Tech meets craft at the FabLab Venezia

Hephaestus tries to explore these questions in different ways and, this February, joining forces across partners, countries and funders...
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Living Lab Methodology

Living Lab Methodology

A living lab is a collaborative research methodology (Veeckman et al., 2013) and a systemic innovation ecosystem approach...
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the Craft Sector in the EU at ATRIP Congress

HEPHAESTUS presentation on Ethical and Sustainable Innovation in the Craft Sector in the EU at ATRIP Congress

The HEPHAESTUS team is pleased to announce that Vishv Priya Kohli, Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School..
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IPDMC 2024

HEPHAESTUS project at IPDMC 2024 discussing Innovation in the Anthropocene

Horizon Europe project HEPHAESTUS coordinator Marta Gasparin Copenhagen Business School, together with Dr Martin Quinn..
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Exhibition Semblance

Exhibition: Semblance (02.05 – 13.05.2024), at Röhsska Museum of Design, Gothenburg, Sweden

The exhibition is curated by Rob Curran, Alice Kettle and Jokum Lind Jensen – craft makers and artists within the craft ecosystem in Dals Långed and Fengersfors, Sweden and HEPHAESTUS project craft ambassadors.
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Event_Professor Elke Krasny Keynote speaker at HEPHAESTUS Symposium

Professor Elke Krasny: Keynote speaker at HEPHAESTUS Symposium

Project HEPHAESTUS has the pleasure the welcome Elke Krasny, Professor for Art and Education and Head of the Art and Education Program
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An itinerant symposium - 2-4 May, 2024 event

The economy and organization of craft: An itinerant symposium – 2-4 May, 2024

In collaboration with the Biennale Craft Days of West Sweden, the Horizon project Hephaestus is hosting a symposium on the economy and organization of craft.
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N.Rosenkrantz Christiansen

Ode to Clay

With a painterly approach, several masters are at play…Landscapes in Vangogh, along body parts à la Bacon, with Dalinistic scapes and planes…
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Prof. Vishv Priya Kohli

Protection of Textiles and Crafts in the EU through Geographical Indications—An Evaluation of the New Legislative Proposal

We are pleased to share that Associate Professor Vishv Priya Kohli, from Copenhagen Business School (CBS), has recently published her insightful article titled "Protection of Textiles and Crafts in the EU through Geographical Indications—An Evaluation of the New Legislative Proposal"
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