“ There is a young generation filled with quality, skills and dreams grafting into a world full of information, needs and languages. The young creative practices can inspire a future, where they can make a difference when they hold the right tools at hand. Learning to craft and design with information, context and their personal roots in making and thinking to open up creatives practices that inspire a story and difference in their localities. Made.Create.Cradle is a program to graft tools that design a new dialogue! “

Design Education Program Made.Create.Cradle. 为明天的设计播下种⼦子

Project Introduction 介绍

The Made.Create.Cradle design program is initiated by Studio BoomWehmeyer while working from Jingdezhen in China to create new co-design bridges with the young designer generation both in the Netherlands and China.

Made.Create.Cradle grew from the valuable and sustainable impact that learning programs can create. Through receiving time to learn and co-create those participants can lay out seeds for an aware generation building new perspectives and fostering new designer-maker futures. The word „Cradle“ represent a nourishing design model to enable growth and an authentic practice.

The Cradle project developed into an engaging program to grow new designer-maker futures for graduates and starting designers in China and the Netherlands. Through coaching, co-learning, activating of new design tools and collaboration they learn to explore and build a personal practice that makes a difference in their locality and work field. The collaboration is exchanged with young Dutch design students who will learn to co-design and building a open-source -work approach with the Chinese participant designers. The program will also have the support of young and established Dutch/Chinese designer-maker-practices who will contribute knowledge and exchange.

This program emerged naturally from Studio BoomWehmeyer’s engagement and passion for working in China in the last 7 years. They have been created design projects here in collaboration with makers, thinkers, craftsmen and the academic realm in projects such as „Creative Ingredients“, „Slow China“ and „Re- Wire“.

Through sharing passion, skills, concerns, dreams and collaboration in the last years in the changing context of Jingdezhen and Shanghai the fast visible changes of these two cities only revealed the more invisible questions that are core to this project.

” How can the young generation of designer-makers transform the dialogue between China and the Netherlands and inspire new scenarios by taking „Made and Create in China “ into „Cradle practices“ with a new learning, exploration and engaging way of working together? ”

“ What seeds to we need to plant into a creative landscape for local designer-makers to learn to slow grow and position themselves, to deal with their context and designing personal work? “ 

The program is aimed for a year planning until november 2013, the data of workshop phases will soon be online at the made.create.cradle. website also featuring a platform with work and conversations of participants, partners and planning.