Pakistan’s crafts for empowerment: Dr. Gwendolyn Kulick's Work
Saturday, March 8, 2025
The academic journey of German design researcher and Professor Dr. Gwendolyne Kulick is both extensive and impressive. She volunteered for the Thatta Kedona project from 2004 to 2017 and taught at the BNU in Lahore before moving to the University of Cairo in 2015. She also contributed to the Berlin Ethnology Museum’s Thatta Kedona doll display until 2017. Her doctoral research focused on the Thatta Kedona doll project in the small Pakistani village of Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka, located in the Okara District. Dr. Kulick completed her PhD at the School of Design and Art at Wuppertal University in Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Brigitte Wolf. Her dissertation explored the topic of "Pakistan’s crafts for empowerment."
This link provides access to key sections of her dissertation, including details about the contributors and their perspectives.
Here is the complete YouTube video.
Labels: Dr. Gwendolyn Kulick, Research, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:40 AM,
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Pakistani Handicrafts
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Pakistan Handicrafts are very famous all over the world. They are collectors delight for those who value unique, handmade and cultural items. Thatta Kedona has played important role in providing handicrafts in the world market. Success of the project has also attracted researchers on the subject.
Recently, Gwendolyne Kulick, an assistant professor for Designing in BNU, Lahore, since more than 10 years, is writing her PhD thesis about ‘Handicraft projects in Pakistan, their results and future.’ She has visited the TGD village project in several times with her students.
Gwendolyne Kulick with her German Professor Doktor Brigitte Wolf has also had a workshop with 16 students from universities in Lahore. Within the frame work of her research work she has had a meeting with Mrs Farzana from WAC in TGD and Dr Senta Siller from SES, as a consultant for the recent cooperation between AFA and AFWA.
Labels: AFA, BNU, Dr Senta Siller, Farzana Zahoor, Gwendolyne Kulick, Research, SES
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1:46 PM,
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Research work with Thatta Kedona
Monday, May 5, 2014
Prof. Gwendolyn Kulick, the Assistant Professor in Beaconhouse National University (BNU), School of Visual Arts and Design, has a long association with the Project. In addition to being in Pakistan House Potsdam, Germany in 2003, she has visited TGD with BNU students many times. She is doing her PhD in ‘Design Work in NGOs and Income Generation.’ Her research work brings her to TGD.
(Farooq Ahmed, Secretary General Anjuman-e-Falah-e-Aama), Prof. Dr. Brigitte Wolf and Prof. Gwendolyn Kulick)
On Mar 17, 2011, Gwendolyn Kulick was in the Dolls Village with her research supervisor (academic mother) Prof. Dr. Brigitte Wolf (Theory of Design, Department for Design and Art, University of Wuppertal, Germany) who is in Pakistan on the invitation of Annemarie-Schimmel-House (ASchH) in Lahore.
Both the special guests spent fill day visiting different workshops of doll making, pottery and toy making in the Women Art Centre and Technology- Transfer- and Training Centre as well as saw the work in Basic Health Unit. Guests also took keen interests in repair work for Mud House Owners Project (owners repair their mud house after summer and winter monsoon ahead of the annual quality of life competition – an effort to keep traditional farmhouses as a sample). These mud houses are also fouc of stuy for Institute for Experimental Construction at BNU and attractive for visitor and tourists.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 12:00 AM,
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Research at Dolls' Village
Friday, September 21, 2012
Students from the University of the Punjab carried out research study in Thatta Ghulmaka Dheroka (TGD), a Pakistan village in the back waters of Punjab now famous all over the world as Doll Village.
Research was carried out in cooperation with Social Welfare Office, Okara. One of the total 18 students’ groups that comprised of Gulshan Gloria, Ayesha Latif, Sabiha Latif, Aqeela Fayyaz, Ameena Sehar and Sidra Pervez evaluated living and economic conditions in TGD under the supervision of Professor Tahir Aziz Chaudhry.
Research was carried out in cooperation with Social Welfare Office, Okara. One of the total 18 students’ groups that comprised of Gulshan Gloria, Ayesha Latif, Sabiha Latif, Aqeela Fayyaz, Ameena Sehar and Sidra Pervez evaluated living and economic conditions in TGD under the supervision of Professor Tahir Aziz Chaudhry.
Labels: Research, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:15 AM,
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University of Punjab Research Group at TGD
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Students from the University of the Punjab carried out research study in Thatta Ghulmaka Dheroka (TGD), a Pakistan village in the back waters of Punjab now famous all over the world as Doll Village. Research was carried out in cooperation with Social Welfare Office, Okara. One of the total 18 students’ groups that comprised of Gulshan Gloria, Ayesha Latif, Sabiha Latif, Aqeela Fayyaz, Ameena Sehar and Sidra Pervez evaluated living and economic conditions in TGD under the supervision of Professor Tahir Aziz Chaudhry.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:25 AM,
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Want to Attract Opposite Sex, Lower your Voice
Thursday, May 31, 2012
People subconsciously lower their voices when trying to woo attractive members of the opposite sex, according to new research, reports Geo.
Both men and women lower the pitch of the their voice when they want to signal that they are attracted to another person, researchers found.
The findings dispel the idea that women adopt a higher, more feminine tone when they find a man attractive, like the stereotype damsel in distress.
Instead, they are more likely to put on a husky voice such as that of the television presenter Mariella Frostrup or the actress Joanna Lumley.
Researchers said the ploy is of particular use when talking over the phone, or even in voicemail messages, where non- visual and non-verbal forms of flirting - such as fluttering eyelashes and wry smiles - will not work.
A team from Albright College in Pennsylvannia tested 48 male and female students, asking them to look at a picture and then leave a voicemail message for the person in the image.
The more attractive the person in the photograph was deemed to be, the lower lower the tone of voice used in the message, said assistant professor of psychology Susan Hughes.
She told the Journal of Nonverbal Behaviour: "We found that both sexes used a lower-pitch voice and showed a higher level of physiological arousal when speaking to a more attractive opposite-sex target."
Women choose a voice that society suggests men will find attractive and it is not a high pitched feminine one, she added.
"There appears to be a common stereotype in our culture that deems a sexy female voice as one that sounds husky, breathy, and lower-pitched," said Prof Hughes.
"This suggests that the motivation to display a sexy/seductive female voice may conflict with the motivation to sound more feminine.
"When a woman naturally lowers her voice, it may be perceived as her attempt to sound more seductive or attractive, and therefore serves as a signal of her romantic interest."
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:56 AM,
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Word of the Year - Austerity
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Austerity clearly resonates with many people," said Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster, who monitors online dictionary searches. "We often hear it used in the context of government measures, but we also apply it to our own personal finances and what is sometimes called the new normal."
Second on the list was "pragmatic", a word that rose steadily in searches this year, and which the dictionary said "described a quality that people value highly, want to understand fully and are looking for in their leaders".
"Moratorium" was third on the list, reflecting the ban on offshore oil drilling that followed BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Other words in the top 10 included socialism, bigot, doppelganger, shellacking, ebullient, dissident and furtive.
Source: Merriam-Webster.
Labels: Research
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3:25 PM,
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How much you need to be happy?
Friday, September 10, 2010
People say money doesn't buy happiness. Except, according to a new study from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, it sort of does — up to about $75,000 a year. The lower a person's annual income falls below that benchmark, the unhappier he or she feels. But no matter how much more than $75,000 people make, they don't report any greater degree of happiness
Read more at Time
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:21 PM,
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What Women Do Online
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Unicast's "What Women Want From the Web Report" (pdf) Summer 2010, which polled 516 adult women, found 95% of women plan to go online, and 62% notice and/or interact with online advertising. Women aged 18-24 use the web more than other age groups for all activities except keeping up with news - 53% vs. 67% overall.
What Women Plan To Do Online:
- 76% plan to connect with friends and family
- 67% will keep up with news
- 64% plan to shop for sales/compare prices
- 59% intend to entertain themselves (play games, listen to music or watch TV/movies)
- 48% will research travel/vacations
The ads that resonate with women:
- 46% - include sales, discount codes
- 31% - feature creating/submitting an entry to win a prize
- 24% - provide customized local information
- 22% - offer interactive surveys/quizzes
The products women notice ads for:
- 35% - entertainment
- 33% - food and beverages, or health/beauty products
- 30% - fashion/clothing
- 27% - travel
- 20% - gaming
The report found women who visit blogs notice online advertising far more than overall respondents. While this is a small group with 13% of women who read blogs regularly, it shows, no surprise, females are potentially more open to ads from relevant sources of information that they trust.
The report was conducted May 27-28 by the Polling Company, Inc. The online survey queried 1,062 Americans age 18+ and analyzed the responses of the 516 women queried.
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:47 AM,
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