Crafts and Design by appointment of CIDAP

The CIDAP aims to design and its close relationship with crafts. The Inter-American Center of Crafts and Popular Arts proposed as one of the 2018 projects a week where designers and artisans meet and propose new elements. The bases of participation are on the CIDAP website.

The event as such is a reality, CIDAP presented the first edition of the "AR-DIS": Week of Design for Crafts ", which will be held at the facilities of the entity, from nine to 15 in April, as well as opening the call for designers interested in being part of it submit their proposals until March 3.

The main objective of the meeting is to create a platform for the promotion and development of design for crafts as an innovation tool. This great end derives others, among them; create a marketing space for design products that highlight the identity and traits of craftsmanship; open a space for approach and exchange of knowledge of design and craftsmanship between academic professionals, collectives, cultural promoters, officials and citizens; I enter other ends.

The AR-DIS that receives the support of the Ministry of Industries and Productivity, has as an important point the creation of the prize for Craft Design, in the categories of fashion and accessories; home and outdoor life; and, craftsmanship as consumption. In this first edition, the Week of Art and Design aims to bring together approximately 40 participants. The curatorship for the selection of the participants will be external to the institution, as well as the institutional support that makes visible what is the meaning of this event

The event has the support of the Design Career of the University of Azuay and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Cuenca. Fausto Ordóñez, CIDAP's Executive Director, pointed out that this AR-DIS is a meeting between design and craftsmanship, a stage where debate and conversation can be held to generate proposals that make it possible to institutionalize this meeting over time.

This event shows the harmony between universities and CIDAP and the conviction that the present and future of design and craftsmanship in the region is the search for identity and joint work, said Genoveva Malo of the Design Career at UDA. From the point of view of art, to the objects made by craftsmanship, we must look at them from other angles, as elements that arise from the application of ancestral technology; elements that transcend time and those who generate them are those that represent the identity and heritage of a society, added Esteban Torres.