One half of S.O.P., Bernadette Deddens is participating in a workshop in Sarajevo, Bosnia called All Inclusive Sarajevo from today for a week, which is organised by Natasa Perkovic and Josip Lovrenovic from Kulturanti and Julia Cassim, a Senior Research Fellow at the Helen Hamlynn Centre at Royal College of Art in London.
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The idea of this project is to start a collaboration between designers with innovative ideas and exceptional craftsmen working for different organizations that employ disabled people to codesign a collection of designer products.It came from Sarajevo designers from Kulturanti association and it was accepted at the famous Helen Hamlyn Centre of the Royal College of Art in London that holds similar workshops worldwide.
All Inclusive Sarajevo workshop will be held from May 25 to 29, 2009 in Sarajevo and is organized by the Kulturanti association from Sarajevo and Helen Hamlyn Centre. The project was awarded a grant under the Creative Collaborations project fund of the British Council. Local partners and workshop participants are the following companies employing persons with disabilities: Librag, Association of Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Canton Sarajevo, Pismolik, the Center for Self-Reliance and Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo. Other partners are the Association of Blind of Canton Sarajevo, Association of Paraplegics and Persons with Infantile Paralysis of Canton Sarajevo and Kulturni Front from Belgrade.