Culture Dock

05/21/2021

Artisans' cultural heritage is expressed through the beautiful products they make with skilled hands and traditional tools and techniques. Culture Dock is looking forward to celebrating traditional artisans, every day, on our platform, but for now, today is World Day for Cultural Diversity and Dialogue. It's a day to bring the world together by celebrating differences. It's a good day!

We 👏 believe 👏 in 👏 👏

It's part of our strength, not our weakness. When we unite in our diversity, we create a world that reflects all of our values. Culture as a tool for development is at the center of building better, more tolerant societies.

Join us in celebrating World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development!

Read more: https://on.unesco.org/2EdkKPW

05/10/2021

We have a choice in recovering from the pandemic.

Using the current economic model, projections show the Covid-19 pandemic will deepen inequality and will create lingering impact on vulnerable groups.

But we can take a different path. We can transform our economic and trading system to favour people and the planet. We can .

Fair Trade Enterprises are pioneering alternative business models that put people and planet before profit. Join the ! ✊

Read blog on IFOAM - Organics International: https://bit.ly/3vOGppM

04/19/2021

During her first trip to Southern Africa, in 1991, the founder of Culture Dock purchased a beautiful handmade mohair tapestry (view below - photo 1), in Maseru, Lesotho. This was the beginning of a lifelong appreciation of cultural heritage that has led to a full-circle moment, having Handmade in Lesotho join our list of artisans who are ready to populate the Culture Dock Marketplace.

Lesotho is a small kingdom, bordered on all sides by the Republic of South Africa. It is one of only three nations in the world that is completely surrounded by a single country (the others are San Marino and Vatican City) and has the nickname, the ‘Switzerland of Africa’. It even has a ski resort, called Afriski Mountain Resort, high in the Maluti Mountains and they're busy getting ready for their upcoming winter season!

04/02/2021

By the founder of Culture Dock.

At a time when millions have experienced disruptions in their ways of working, traditional artisans — the original remote workers — offer lessons on the future of work.

01/18/2021

“As we navigate how to move forward during this pandemic, the artisan community worldwide has some valuable lessons on what the future of work can—and should—look like. We often think of artisanship as a thing of the past. But in many ways, it is the future. At a time where there is an urgent call to bring Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) voices to the table, the cottage industry model—already perfected by Black, brown, and Indigenous communities for centuries—could help suggest a new way of work". ~ Rebecca van Bergen, Founder of Nest Artisan Guild.
Photo: Entoto Beth Artisan

09/26/2020

09/22/2020

Subscribe to Culture Dock and stay tuned for the upcoming Culture Dock Marketplace — a social marketplace bringing global traditional artisans, vetted by leading organisations in fair trade and heritage crafts, to socially conscious consumers.

Culture Dock brings the village craft market, from destinations across the globe, into the homes of consumers. Open the Culture Dock app and filter by country, product, or organisation to access virtual stores being operated by artisans of the global South and master-craftsmen from developed count...

09/01/2020

With the current pandemic affecting every industry in some form, many small businesses are at risk of closing with the impending economic recession. The Heritage Crafts sector was already in danger before COVID-19 and now many makers are unsure if they will be able to continue.

07/25/2020

We do, Citizens of Craft!