Business Skills

Strengthen your business skills with materials focused on entrepreneurship, management, and strategic thinking. Designed to support both aspiring and experienced professionals, this section provides practical knowledge for real-world application. You will find resources to help you plan, grow, and manage projects or businesses effectively.

01 PodCraft. Stories and skills from the world of craft-making

A podcast designed to offer accessible, engaging, and modular learning experiences. The podcast is structured around two main series: Craft Tools – Exploring digital tools, new materials, and sustainable innovations with professionals and scholars; and Craft Talks – Featuring business models, success stories, and entrepreneurial insights from craft-makers. The podcast covers different learning areas, ranging from technical skills and innovation, business and management, communication and digital tools, sustainability and circular economy, and peer mentorship. PodCraft is a podcast series developed within the HEPHAESTUS project to explore the world of craft-making through interviews and conversations with artisans, researchers, artists, and craft-supporting organizations. It combines storytelling, training-oriented reflection, and practical insight, addressing topics such as craft skills, innovation, sustainability, communication, intellectual property, and generational transition. The episodes are designed both for established practitioners and for people interested in entering or better understanding the craft world.

What you learn by completing this resource?

By engaging with PodCraft, listeners can learn from first-hand craft experiences, expert reflections, and thematic conversations about contemporary craft practice. The series offers insight into technical processes, sustainability, intellectual property, innovation, communication, and the relationship between tradition and experimentation. It is especially valuable as an audio-based learning resource that translates real craft experience into accessible training content, inspiration, and professional reflection for both practitioners and newcomers. Mainly peer-to-peer knowledge on craft making in different craft ecosystems, projects, addressing multiple skills, areas of craft practice, business models, geographical specificities.

02 Becoming a craft entrepreneur: reviving heritage through tradition, innovation, and community in the ceramic ecosystem of Nove

This paper focuses on the concept of craft entrepreneurship, focusing on the career trajectory of Pol Polloniato, an “artiere”—someone who merges artistic vision with traditional craftsmanship—and a renowned ceramist from Nove, Bassano del Grappa, Italy. Italian craft, particularly in the Veneto region, has deep cultural and economic roots intertwined with family businesses and industrial districts. An artisan entrepreneur blends traditional, handmade techniques with innovation, prioritising cultural value over the production of functional goods. Craft entrepreneurs contribute to regional development, creating social and economic value through their craftsmanship, frequently within family businesses or as independent artisans, while also engaging with their communities. Through the lens of Polloniato’s career, this study highlights how an artisan navigates the complex relationship between tradition, innovation, and community, thus becoming a craft entrepreneur. The article proposes a four-step process model for artisan entrepreneurship, rooted in career development, which includes phases of cultural rootedness, experimentation, legitimation, and return to community.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Gain knowledge on craft entrepreneurship and the specific ceramic ecosystem of Nove.

04 Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media

Explores how generative AI is transforming our understanding of aesthetics, creativity, design, and art appreciation. It uses approaches from six fields. Emanuele brings perspectives from aesthetics, philosophy of art, and psychology of art. Lev contributes perspectives from media theory, digital culture studies, and computer science, as well as his four decades of experience as an artist creating digital media, including recent work with generative AI. This is the first time all these different perspectives have been combined to analyze cultural AI.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Compare different perspectives on AI and Creativity.

05 Generative AI and Creative Work: Narratives, Values, and Impacts

The article Generative AI and Creative Work: Narratives, Values, and Impacts examines how media and technology discourses shape perceptions of AI in creative industries. It analyses online narratives and identifies key themes such as automation, efficiency, and the prioritisation of ideas over craft, arguing that these narratives influence cultural values and artistic labour.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Compare your own view with different narratives.

06 Ai + the artis: debates in AI

The Debates in AI (RISD) resource documents a 2024 symposium hosted by the Rhode Island School of Design, bringing together artists, scholars, and technologists to assess the impact of AI on creative disciplines. It presents recorded talks, panels, and discussions that explore ethical, cultural, and artistic questions surrounding AI, particularly its influence on authorship, labour, and creativity.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Compare different perspectives on AI and Creativity.

07 Podcast: Crafty Ass Female

Crafty Ass Female is a podcast hosted by Kristin Tweedale that focuses on creativity, craft practices, and personal storytelling, particularly aimed at women. Through informal discussions and guest interviews, it explores topics such as creative routines, mental health, and overcoming creative blocks, encouraging listeners to embrace their own creative potential.

What you learn by completing this resource?

You learn to see creativity not as a “talent,” but as a daily practice. The podcast encourages you to create consistently, even imperfectly.

08 Tools & Resources bookshelf

The European Crafts Alliance Resource Library is an online collection of curated materials, including reports, toolkits, and policy documents related to the European craft sector. It brings together resources on topics such as sustainability, digital innovation, and business development, aiming to support craft practitioners, organisations, and stakeholders in understanding industry trends and improving professional practice.

What you learn by completing this resource?

You learn about current challenges and opportunities in the craft sector, including sustainability practices, digital tools, and business strategies, as well as gaining insight into policy and industry development.

09 Crafts Council Youtube Playlists

The Crafts Council YouTube Channel is a digital platform featuring a wide range of videos on contemporary craft, including artist interviews, studio visits, exhibition highlights, and process demonstrations. It showcases the work of makers and provides insight into creative practices, materials, and the cultural context of craft within the UK and beyond.

What you learn by completing this resource?

You learn about different craft practices, techniques, and artistic processes, as well as gaining insight into professional craft careers and the cultural value of making.

11 IP toolkit for designers and craftmakers in the EU

This online toolkit offers beginner-friendly guidance for designers and craft makers across the EU on how to protect their creative work under current EU Intellectual Property (IP) regulations. It covers key IP protection mechanisms — including copyright, trademarks, designs, geographical indications, and patents — with practical tips, checklists, and real-world case studies tailored to the needs of creative professionals. Available in English and suitable for learners with no prior legal knowledge, the toolkit supports multiple learning pathways to help users identify and apply the right IP tools for their practice.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Guidance on how to protect your artistic work given the new EU regulations for Intellectual Propety Rights.

12 Reskilling Crafts

Reskilling Crafts is a European Erasmus+ initiative that aims to revitalise the craft sector by combining traditional craftsmanship with digital and sustainable skills. Through training programmes, reskilling labs, and collaborative networks, the project supports adult learners and professionals in adapting to changing industry demands and accessing new career opportunities in crafts. (it is still developing)

What you learn by completing this resource?

You learn how to combine traditional craft skills with digital and sustainable practices, develop new professional competencies, and adapt to evolving job markets within the craft sector.

14 Maker Tribes

Our goal is to create a community of local Makers, Suppliers and educators across Europe who support each other in developing new business opportunities, learning new skills, designing new tools and techniques and creating hand made products in a sustainable and repairable manner.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Peer-to-peer suggestions on wood, leather, glass, and start a small business

19 BRICKS

A project aimed at preserving traditional skills: the role of non-formal education. Strengthening non-formal education as a complementary pathway to formal learning, revitalizing traditional crafts, preserving local identity, and fostering innovation for future generations.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Gain knowledge on formal and informal craft education

22 Accelerator4Crafts

A new digital platform designed to strengthen the transmission of craft knowledge, foster collaboration, and stimulate innovation across Europe’s diverse crafts sector.
Conceived as a meeting place and platform for craftspeople, the Accelerator enables craftspeople, educators, researchers, designers, and cultural practitioners to learn, exchange, and connect through digital tools and community-driven methodologies. What you’ll find on the platform: A self-diagnosis tool guiding users to tailored learning resources, Curated reports, thematic cards, tutorials, and video content, Community spaces for collaboration and peer learning, A growing ecosystem connecting European craft practices.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Strengthen the transmission of craft knowledge, foster collaboration, and stimulate innovation across Europe’s diverse crafts sectors.

23 Materie di Studio

A set of three lessons held by craftmakers for management students to reflect thorugh interaction with the material on the materiality of companies’ production processes

What you learn by completing this resource?

Hopefully a more conscious stance toward economic activity.

24 HEPHAESTUS webinar plus individual mentoring sessions

Three webinars with local craft experts on craft business models, sustainability practices for craft, digital/new technologies, followed by individual mentoring sessions.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Get a sense of possible avenues in terms of a more solid business model, digital technologies and green economy principle and a dedicated individual mentoring for the three topics

25 Craftsmanship and the politics of craft preservation

Craft preservation today unfolds within a dynamic and evolving landscape, where artisanal practices are increasingly framed as contributors to innovation, sustainability and territorial development. In parallel, craft governance has become more complex, involving public institutions, professional organisations and private actors such as luxury brands. This paper reviews contemporary preservation policies, identifying four main intervention clusters: certifications and standards, heritage recognition, skills and knowledge transmission, and entrepreneurship and innovation. While these often overlap in practice, they clarify the layered rationales shaping contemporary craft governance. Building on this review, we explore how the preservation of craft is operationalised through hybrid policy designs that address shifting boundaries and broadened expectations surrounding artisanal practice. The paper shows how hybrid configurations are enacted through a case study of Regional Law No. 34/2018 of the Veneto Region without explicit integration. The figure of the Maestro emerges as a carrier of institutional logics and a performative boundary object, stabilising fragmented policy expectations. The findings contribute to debates in organisation studies on institutional pluralism, role work and governance in creative economies.

What you learn by completing this resource?

The state of the art in terms of policies for craft knowledge transmission and preservation.

26 Elements of gemmological analysis and identification of precious stones; Level I jewellery making techniques

Agenzia Formativa ‘E.G.Ghirardi’ is a vocational school for goldsmiths and an institution accredited by the Piedmont region for career guidance and employment services for young people and adults.These are highly practical courses focused on specific areas of craftsmanship.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Through knowledge and in-depth study of materials, metalworking techniques, knowledge of the main materials to be used and their assembly and finishing, users will be able to choose materials, transfer project dimensions, trace, use fretwork techniques, work on shapes, assembly, welding and mounting of the parts that make up the jewellery, finishing the product and the surface polishing process. At the end of the course, the user will have created a ring and a brooch and will be familiar with all the characteristics of the materials and processing techniques; This course provides students with general technical training in performing comprehensive qualitative analyses on coloured gemstones and in the use of gemmological instruments. Topics covered will include: an introduction to mineralogy and geology, gemmology sites: extraction; knowledge and use of instruments for gemmological analysis and identification, the ‘4Cs’, factors influencing the market; natural stones, synthetics, imitations. Classification of coloured stones and diamonds; laboratory organisation; UNI and international standards and certifications.

TECNICHE DI OREFICERIA I° LIVELLO

ELEMENTI DI ANALISI GEMMOLOGICA E IDENTIFICAZIONE DELLE PIETRE PREZIOSE

27 Emagister - Craft Section

This resource offers access to a broad range of in presence and online craft courses delivered by different training providers. The courses cover several artisanal fields, including jewellery, ceramics, leather, clay, terracotta, porcelain, and artistic crafts. Together, they provide opportunities for learners with different goals, from introductory training to more advanced specialization, combining technical practice, material knowledge, and professionally oriented craft education.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Depending on the selected course, learners can develop practical craft techniques, improve their understanding of materials and tools, and strengthen their ability to produce artisanal objects in specific domains. Some courses are more introductory, while others support specialization or professional development. Overall, the resource offers learning opportunities that can help users build hands-on making skills, sector-specific knowledge, and, in some cases, a stronger basis for entering or consolidating craft practice.

29 Domestika

Inspired by its dynamic community of professionals, Domestika decided to aim even higher, starting to produce online courses for anyone who wants to explore their creative potential, learn new skills, and connect with like-minded creatives from around the world. Domestika carefully selects its teachers and produces all courses in-house to ensure a high-quality online learning experience. Currently, the online community is home to millions of people united by the same passion: learning new skills and developing their creativity.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Different for each course.

30 Distributed Design Learning Hub

The Learning Hub aims to provide resources and practical learning materials to support in exploring new topics, navigating intersectional practices, and expanding knowledge.

What you learn by completing this resource?

General competencies and information on innovation, business, technology.

31 Fabricademy

Fabricademy is an interdisciplinary course that focuses on new technologies applied to the textile field, from the fashion industry all the way to the upcoming wearable market. A 6 months program to be attended in a participating laboratory or online.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Skill, tools, processes.

34 Craft Histories

On the HEPHAESTUS website, storytelling in craft is celebrated as a vital feature that highlights traditions in material use and design, evokes a sense of place and landscape, and shares personal narratives. These craft stories enhance value by emphasizing authenticity, provenance, and the unique identity of the maker. HEPHAESTUS craft stories delve into the process of “getting to know” craft artefacts through the life and social contexts of their makers and their business models. These narratives also serve as “travel guides” for those exploring craftsmanship in the participating countries. Each story is vividly brought to life through a combination of words, images, and videos.

What you learn by completing this resource?

The Craft Histories serve as tool to understand how the selected crafts materials and processes have become cultural heritage, what controversies and tensions arise and exist when looking deeper into the given craft ecosystem, and what possibilites there are for alternative business models in the craft sector.

36 Una Scuola, un Lavoro

Each year, Una Scuola, un Lavoro offers free excellence pathways to 25 young craftspeople across Italy. The program includes a four-week “Mini Master,” organized by prestigious Milanese universities, and a six-month internship in a workshop, laboratory, or artisan enterprise, where participants work side by side with a master craftsperson.

Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte promotes this initiative with the aim of:

Supporting both the theoretical and practical training of new artisans
Facilitating their career choices through direct exposure to the world of work
Preventing the disappearance of traditional and locally rooted crafts and know-how, preserving their socio-economic and cultural value
Nurturing the masters of tomorrow by offering skilled artisans the opportunity to train apprentices who can learn the secrets of the craft and work alongside them

This resource offers free excellence pathways for young craftspeople in Italy through a combined training model. Each year, selected participants receive a four-week “Mini Master” with 120 hours of classroom training and a six-month paid internship in an artisan workshop, laboratory, or craft enterprise alongside a master craftsperson. The project is designed to support both theoretical and practical development and to facilitate entry into the world of high artistic craftsmanship.

What you learn by completing this resource?

A classroom-based training pathway offered free of charge to all selected participants. The tailored “Mini Master” includes 120 hours of targeted training, structured as follows:

History of Applied Arts, delivered by Corsi Arte
Design and Personal Branding, delivered by Politecnico di Milano
Micro-enterprise Management, delivered by SDA Bocconi through the initiative SDA Bocconi for Growth
Digital Communication, delivered by Università IULM

The programme is further enriched by classes in self-entrepreneurship delivered by Formaper, visits to selected artisan workshops in Milan, and a course on health and safety in the workplace delivered by IndirizzoAmbiente, followed by a six-month paid internship in an artisan workshop.

By completing this pathway, learners develop both practical and professional competences needed for contemporary craft careers. The Mini Master builds knowledge in applied arts, design, personal branding, micro-enterprise management, digital communication, self-entrepreneurship, and workplace safety. The six-month internship then allows participants to deepen their technical skills through daily practice with a master artisan, strengthening their understanding of real workshop processes, professional identity, and transition into work.

37 Crafting Business

An online course for artistic and traditional craft enterprises: “Crafting Business,” presented by Artex in Florence. Through this initiative, artisans, craft start-ups, designers, and creatives can strengthen their knowledge to support and develop their businesses.

Thanks to video sessions led by experts from various fields, Crafting Business fosters opportunities for dialogue and training for emerging enterprises. Artex is seeking artisans and young businesses, designers, makers, and professionals connected to the digital world—with a particular focus on craft products—who are interested in creating a fertile ground for the exchange of practices, ideas, experiences, and cross-fertilization between digital technologies and manual know-how.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Business skills.

39 WMN&ART - Integrated e-training & e-guiding for inactive women for transferring their art hobby in to their future income

WMN&ART is an Erasmus+ project designed to support inactive women in turning artistic and ceramic hobbies into home-based micro-enterprises. It combines project information, mentoring profiles, and a multilingual e-learning platform. The training model includes separate pathways for art mentors and women mentees, with a particular focus on artistic ceramics, mentoring support, entrepreneurship, and the development of home-based handcrafting activities that can generate income.

What you learn by completing this resource?

By engaging with WMN&art, learners can develop knowledge and skills for producing ceramic handicrafts from home and turning those activities into small-scale income-generating work. Mentees receive training in handcraft production and business start-up support, while mentors learn how to guide women entrepreneurs through mentoring, business development, and growth strategies. The resource therefore combines craft learning, entrepreneurship, and peer support within a structured digital environment.

41 Artex Artigianato Artistico

It includes several webinars:

SUSTAINABILITY PILLS: Artex offers and presents four virtual meetings on Zoom plus one Innovation Webinar, aimed at guiding companies through the Sustainable Development Goals and helping them develop business strategies for a greener, higher-quality future. The program provides specific training on sustainability within enterprises, enabling participants to raise awareness among craft businesses about circular economy and sustainability issues. The project, “Sustainability Pills,” is supported by the World Crafts Council Europe through the Crafting the Future project funded by the European Union.

INNOVATION WEBINARS: A series of in-depth sessions aimed at all artistic and traditional craft enterprises, with the goal of increasing awareness of digital tools as an integral part of business strategy.

CRAFT DIALOGUES: Craft Dialogues is a series launched by Artex in 2021 with the aim of promoting knowledge of Tuscany’s artistic craft heritage through the testimonies of Master Artisans recognized by the Chamber of Commerce. Each dialogue features a conversation between a master artisan and an expert from the sector, a cultural figure, or a representative of the relevant field. The dialogues are streamed live on Artex’s Facebook and YouTube channels.

TOSCANA ARTIGIANA: A focus on Tuscan artisans.

GALLERIA DELL’ARTIGIANO: A series of interviews with artisans.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Business skills, sustainability competences, innovation skills.

42 Observatory on arts and crafts

It is an online platform for craft education, it has different sections: scientific hub (reports section, Journal section), training (It provides access to all MOSAIC Training Modules available to Teachers and Learners including: craft techniques and methodologies, digitalisation, entrepreneurship, social Inclusion and environmental sustainability.), business hub (Dedicated to entrepreneurs looking for support, tools, knowledge sharing and professional networking).

What you learn by completing this resource?

Craft-making skills, business skills.

43 Craeft Community

This community platform serves as a collaborative hub for all stakeholders connected to the crafts sector, including craft professionals and associations, researchers, policymakers, educators, economists, consumers, and young people. It provides an open space for dialogue, knowledge exchange, and shared reflection on the present and future of crafts. By gathering experiences, best practices, and policy recommendations, the platform contributes to a comprehensive understanding of the structural, economic, and social challenges facing the sector, while fostering constructive debate on pathways for renewal. It promotes an environment in which authenticity is valued, innovation is supported, and the cultural legacy of crafts is sustained.
The platform is grounded in the recognition that revitalizing the crafts sector requires a multifaceted approach. This includes acknowledging the cultural, social, and economic significance of crafts; safeguarding authentic artisanal techniques and regional heritage; strengthening transmission, training, and flexible certification systems; encouraging innovative and sustainable business models for small craft enterprises; and systematically documenting endangered knowledge and practices. By addressing these interconnected dimensions, the community seeks to support a resilient, forward-looking crafts ecosystem that preserves tradition while adapting to contemporary realities.
The CRAEFT Community Portal is a thematic online environment for crafts stakeholders, including craft professionals, associations, researchers, policymakers, educators, economists, consumers, and young people. It aims to support reflection and exchange around the revitalization of the crafts sector through themes such as valorisation, safeguarding authenticity, transmission and training, business models, and documentation. Within this framework, it also highlights educational content, pilots, and discussions related to craft learning and certification.

What you learn by completing this resource?

By engaging with this resource, users can deepen their understanding of how craft knowledge is transmitted, documented, safeguarded, and renewed through both traditional and digital methods. The platform exposes learners to examples, discussion topics, and pilot experiences involving glass, wood, clay, textiles, metalworking, immersive tools, and certification models. It is especially useful for understanding evolving approaches to craft education, heritage preservation, and innovation rather than for following a single linear training course.

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Target audiences: Craft professionals and artisans, Researchers and students in cultural heritage, design, and related fields, Educators and trainers, Policymakers and cultural practitioners, Museums and heritage organizations, Cultural tourism actors, Consumers interested in handcrafted products, Young people exploring craft and cultural heritage
Type: Online learning tool

Artefact Gallery by Culturality

The Artefact Gallery on the Culturality Project website is a curated digital showcase of traditional and contemporary handcrafted objects that highlights the material culture of rural and remote areas across Europe. It features a diverse array of artefacts—such as textiles, tools, jewellery, and everyday objects—submitted or documented by project partners and collaborators, each accompanied by contextual information about its origin, materials, techniques, and cultural significance. Through this visual and descriptive presentation, the gallery illustrates how local craftsmanship reflects broader traditions, identities, and creative practices while contributing to the project’s research on cultural heritage and sustainable rural development.

The Artefact Gallery serves both as an educational resource and as a platform for increasing the visibility of rural craftsmanship at European and international levels. It not only celebrates the aesthetic and technical qualities of handcrafted objects, but also situates them within ongoing conversations about cultural sustainability, circularity, and community resilience. By presenting these artefacts in an accessible online format, the gallery supports Culturality’s objectives of promoting cultural tourism, fostering appreciation for intangible heritage, and engaging a wide audience in understanding the value of traditional craft practices today.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Knowledge transmission of: Cultural heritage

46 Knitting by the sea

Knitting by the Sea is a year-round craft association that culminates in an annual large knit-and-craft festival in Faaborg, Denmark, featuring workshops, talks, strikke-cafés, exhibitions, and stalls selling yarn and materials.

What you learn by completing this resource?

New knitting/craft techniques, design inspiration, creative community engagement; festival participation offers practical hands-on learning through workshops.

48 BioColour Online Podcasts

A series of recorded talks and interviews featuring BioColour researchers and guest experts discussing topics related to colourants, natural dyes, pigment science, toxicity, sustainability, and bio-based colour research, often linked to BioColours conferences or events.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Insights into natural and bio-based colourants, their chemical and ecological properties, sustainability considerations, scientific methods, and cultural/policy contexts of colour research.

49 BioColour Online Videos

A collection of recorded seminar sessions, panel discussions, webinars and event livestreams related to BioColour research, including talks on sustainable colours, scientific topics and public outreach events made available as video recordings.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Insights into natural and bio-based colourants, their chemical and ecological properties, sustainability considerations, scientific methods, and cultural/policy contexts of colour research.

50 Colour4CRAFTS Podcast

A podcast that uncovers the meanings and cultural significance of colour, explores textile production, traditional and contemporary craft practices, educational programmes, and connects research activities with society through interviews and discussions.

What you learn by completing this resource?

General information on textile production and contemporary craft practices.

51 Taito Craft Courses

A national searchable portal of craft courses and workshops organised by Taito’s regional craft associations across Finland. Courses cover a wide range of craft techniques and are designed to support learning, creativity, and community engagement.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Practical craft skills e.g., weaving, tufting, spinning, mats, jewellery, embroidery

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

The article evaluates the new legislative proposal, the Regulation on geographical indication protection for craft and industrial products. It traces the development of geographical indications in Europe and analyses the key points of the legislative proposal and its potential impact on the EU handicraft and textiles sector.

What you learn by completing this resource?

Teaches you how the EU is extending geographical indication (GI) protection from food and drink into craft and industrial products—with a specific focus on what that shift could mean for textiles and crafts.

53 Media Review: Speculative Methods in the Absence of Archives

This piece is a short media review in Organization Studies that discusses Firelei Báez’s exhibition Trust Memory Over History (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Oct 2023–May 2024). It uses the exhibition as an entry point to reflect on “speculative methods” as ways of working when archives are missing, absent, or insufficient—foregrounding memory, narrative, and imaginative reconstruction as methodological resources.

What you learn by completing this resource?

More-than-human orientations in design & art, speculative methodologies.

54 Mingei Deliverable D2.2 – The Mingei Collection of Knowledge

The Mingei Deliverable D2.2 – The Mingei Collection of Knowledge is a research report from an EU-funded project focused on documenting and preserving traditional crafts. It outlines a methodology for collecting, analysing, and structuring knowledge about craft practices, including their cultural, historical, and socio-economic contexts. The report also provides case studies (e.g. silk weaving, glassblowing) and guidelines for heritage documentation.

What you learn by completing this resource?

You learn how traditional craft knowledge can be systematically documented, analysed, and preserved using structured methodologies. The resource also helps you understand the cultural, historical, and social contexts of craft practices, as well as how digital tools and frameworks can be used to support heritage conservation and knowledge transmission.

56 Reorganizing public value for city life in the Anthropocene

Public value and city governance are fundamental notions in contemporary settings, but, currently conceived, they are not fit for the challenges presented by the proposed new epoch of geological time—the Anthropocene. Walking through the locked-down streets or calle of Venice, we face the sudden emptiness that starkly reveals the impact of human activity on the city and its waterways. Reflecting on the walk, our starting point is to problematize how a city organizes and manages public value and what actually constitutes public value. In this, we develop a new definition, “New Public Value for the Anthropocene Epoch” (NPVA), which expands the notion of public value through the questions: “who” is it valuable to do things for, beyond humans and economic actors, building on a relational epistemology to incorporate the planet and its biosphere; and “what” is valuable to do, in order to ensure the inclusion of social, environmental, and cultural values alongside economic values. We conclude by arguing that NPVA is organized across scales in a manner that embeds global attentiveness toward local ecosystems solutions to drive the global response to the environmental crisis we all face.

What you learn by completing this resource?

How to creare public value. public value defined across economic, social, cultural, environmental, and ecological values, including non-human actors and local ecologies as legitimate beneficiaries.