Designing for coalescence
Friday, August 9, 2024
A design framework to support shared stakeholder agency
in Pakistan’s craft for empowerment system
by
Dr Gwendolyne Kulick was a volunteer in the TK project since 2004
and also a helper at the doll stand in the Ethnology Museum in Berlin .
until 2017. She was a professor at the BNU in Lahore and
since 2015 a professor at the University of Cairo.
In her doctoral thesis she also dealt with the doll project in TKD.
Important passages from the dissertation are listed in the appendix,
e.g. who said what and why.
Read the thesis here
Labels: Dr Gwendolyne Kulick, Dr Norbert Pintsch, Dr Senta Siller, Farzana Zahoor, Joachim Polzer
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:20 AM,
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Churail in Dolls Village
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The lives of the residents of this village changed 15 years when a German art teacher took up her student Amjad's invite and visited his village: Thatta Ghulam da Dheroka.
An enterprising spirit, she asked the villagers about their craft. The women showed her hand-made rag dolls. The art teacher, Dr Senta Siller, told the villagers she could teach them to make refined hand-made dolls.
Thus spun off a social enterprise in this 200-house strong village that has changed the way of life and living here. Women have a school. The village has a road. They experimented with alternative energy very early on, and now are undertaking community energy & food projects.
The women from this conservative village now go on study tours with the Germans. The villagers have learned about sanitation, childcare, and eco-friendly living. Cleanliness is rewarded here.
Above all, these changes were brought within the system, without breaking down the structure violently.
The whole village participates in the making of the dolls, which represent the four provinces of Pakistan. The original doll is called, "Churail."
This is my peek into their lives. More here!
An enterprising spirit, she asked the villagers about their craft. The women showed her hand-made rag dolls. The art teacher, Dr Senta Siller, told the villagers she could teach them to make refined hand-made dolls.
Thus spun off a social enterprise in this 200-house strong village that has changed the way of life and living here. Women have a school. The village has a road. They experimented with alternative energy very early on, and now are undertaking community energy & food projects.
The women from this conservative village now go on study tours with the Germans. The villagers have learned about sanitation, childcare, and eco-friendly living. Cleanliness is rewarded here.
Above all, these changes were brought within the system, without breaking down the structure violently.
The whole village participates in the making of the dolls, which represent the four provinces of Pakistan. The original doll is called, "Churail."
This is my peek into their lives. More here!
Labels: Dolls, Dolls Village, Dr Gwendolyne Kulick
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:15 AM,
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