Articles Archives - Tapiwa Matsinde | A curatorial and artisan brand visibility consultancy for craft businesses https://tapiwamatsinde.com/category/articles/ author | storyteller | curator | artisan business mentor Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:09:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://tapiwamatsinde.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-Tapiwa-Logo-Monogram-Circle-Copper-Butler-32x32.png Articles Archives - Tapiwa Matsinde | A curatorial and artisan brand visibility consultancy for craft businesses https://tapiwamatsinde.com/category/articles/ 32 32 Telling the stories behind beautifully crafted objects https://tapiwamatsinde.com/telling-the-stories-behind-beautifully-crafted-objects/ https://tapiwamatsinde.com/telling-the-stories-behind-beautifully-crafted-objects/#respond Tue, 05 Apr 2022 14:49:07 +0000 https://tapiwamatsinde.com/?p=641 The opening of Homo Faber 2022 is getting nearer. This edition of the event has been more...

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]]> The opening of Homo Faber 2022 is getting nearer. This edition of the event has been more than 2 years in the making due to its being postponed several times because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Curating a Tea Room for Homo Faber has been a wonderful opportunity to delve into, and share my love of craftsmanship. For an insight into the inspirations behind the space, some of the objects being showcased and my thoughts on why telling stories about the artisans and the objects they create matters. Read the interview here

After decades dominated by mass production, we want the objects we use on a daily basis to have personality and soul. Every handmade piece bears someone’s fingerprints.

Tapiwa Matsinde, Author, Curator, Mentor

Image credit: Laila Pozzo for Homo Faber

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]]> https://tapiwamatsinde.com/telling-the-stories-behind-beautifully-crafted-objects/feed/ 0 A history of upcycling and rethinking how we treat waste materials https://tapiwamatsinde.com/a-history-of-upcycling-and-rethinking-how-we-treat-waste-materials/ https://tapiwamatsinde.com/a-history-of-upcycling-and-rethinking-how-we-treat-waste-materials/#respond Tue, 05 Apr 2022 11:07:42 +0000 https://tapiwamatsinde.com/?p=607 Thank you to KULTURAUSTAUSCH for the invitation to write an article on the history of upcycling and...

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]]> Thank you to KULTURAUSTAUSCH for the invitation to write an article on the history of upcycling and rethinking how we treat waste materials. For me, this was an opportunity to delve into a fascinating subject that crops up more and more in my role as a curator. It enabled me to discover things that I was unaware of such as the Indian concept of Jugaad, meaning ‘quick fix’, ‘hack’, ‘workaround’ in Hindi; and Boro, the ancient Japanese art form that began with the practice of rural villagers mending and patching together old fabric scraps to create a new fabric.

The article appears in the Make it yourself (Issue IV/2021), which you read online here or purchase a print copy. KULTURAUSTAUSCH is published by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, and every issue focuses on one theme for which authors from around the world are invited to explore it from their unique perspectives.

Image credit: A Kintsugi bowl from Japan. Photo: Motoki Tonn / unsplash

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