Featuring pastoral groups in the Indian Himalayas and the Arab World, women in conflict zones across South Asia, migrant Japanese craftswomen in Brazil, the Moana Oceania diaspora communities in Aotearoa New Zealand, and how AI may take part in the transmission of lace-making knowledge, the exhibition contains craft stories of making and being in the world where the maker and the thing being made are in a dynamic relationship, in both space and time and within a wider ecology of cultural practice, interpretation, and exchange.

CraftVoice is the result of a collaboration with the KHC network, an association of craft scholars, practitioners, and designers with a shared interest in re-centring the role of craft in the contemporary world of techno-economic intensification, and alienation, through the building of a dynamic repository of geographically and culturally diverse understandings of human making.
 

Participating exhibitors:

• Laila Al-Hamad, Independent researcher (Kuwait City)
• Patricia Flanagan, Co-director Interactive Media Lab, Lecturer in Textiles, School of Art and Design, University of New South Wales (Sydney), Board Member of the Knowledge House of Craft
• LOkesh Ghai, Independent researcher & artist working with craft communities; (Dehradun & Ahmedabad)  
• Toluma‘anave Barbara Makuati-Afitu & Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai, Co-directors of Lagi-Maama Academy and Consultancy, an educational and cultural organisation based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. (Auckland)
• Liliana Morais, Liliana Morais, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Department of Contemporary Culture, College of Sociology, Rikkyo University (Tokyo)
• Neelam Raina, Associate Professor in Design and Development, Middlesex University (London)
• Sharon Tsang-de Lyster, Independent researcher and Founder of Narrative Made, The Textile Atlas and Craft Frontiers Foundation (Hong Kong)