Since many craftspeople offer repair services, our project also encourages a zero-waste approach.
We add the workshop to our online map and post the interview to our website. New points on the map are usually announced with a post on our Facebook fanpage. To create a full profile of the workshop, we need the owner to sign a GDPR consent statement and a contact sheet.
SWOT Strength
The biggest initiative of its kind in Poland – we have gathered information about more than 500 craftspeople.
Weakness
Time-consuming and in person process of data collection. Needs a lot of volunteers to collect data and keep it updated.
Opportunities
Publishing more photos and videos on our website. Promoting the website more, with SEO and other means.
Threats
Workshops going out of business. List of workshops becoming outdated. Running out of volunteers.
What kind of change is created? Which co-creation moments are included in the practice? We encourage people to let us know about the craft workshops that we haven’t put on our map yet. Besides, we participate in a craft festival (“Noc Rzemiosła”) and are currently developing our own smartphone game that we will introduce to participants.
Pedagogic/methodological aspects Our volunteers contact local craftspeople and schedule appointments. We gather their contact information, interview them on their specialization, and take photos of their workshops.
Craft workshops become more popular and attract more clients, while citizens learn about nearby possibilities of buying local handmade goods and repairing existing ones instead of throwing them away.
Which aspects are transferable? Both the methodology and our online map are transferable. We have already helped create a similar initiative in another Polish city, Wrocław.
Helping small businesses to overcome COVID In 2020, amid the pandemic, we used the workshop database to launch cooperation with an online vintage store, and so we made it possible for craftspeople to sell their products online.
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