Regina Bittner (PhD) studied cultural theory and art history at Leipzig University and received her doctorate from the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt Universität Berlin. As head of the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, she curates and teaches postgraduate and cross-disciplinary programmes on transcultural modernism in design and architecture research. Her most recent curatorial projects include Versuchsstätte Bauhaus. The collection is a permanent exhibition in the Bauhaus Museum Dessau. Her research interests combine cultural anthropological approaches in architecture and design studies with questions of decolonisation, critical heritage and its mediation in teaching and curatorial practice.

Bauhaus – New Bauhaus
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is an artistic-scientific Foundation with the mission of preserving and passing on the ideas and themes of the Bauhaus. The Foundation’s work is historically reflexive and simultaneously investigates the present-day relevance and contemporary potentials that may come from the Bauhaus legacy for the twenty-first century.

Born in Lisbon in 1950, Maria João Bustorff graduated in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Lisbon in 1973, she continued her studies and internships in Paris, London and the USA. With a 40-year career in Portuguese public administration, (Ministries of Labor, Internal Administration, Health, Education, Culture, and Foreign Affairs), she taught at the New University of Lisbon (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities), as an Invited Assistant Professor. Between 1987 and 2006 she was seconded by successive Ministers of Education to the Board of Directors of FRESS, of which she was Delegate-Director and later President. She was part of the XVI Constitutional Government of Portugal, as Minister of Culture. Since 1997 she has dedicated much of her activity to the design and management of projects of historical and artistic interest in Brazil and Portugal, and to issues of Vocational Education and Training. In late 2013 she joined the Board of Trustees of FRESS, of which she was President from June 2016. He is currently a member of the board of FRESS, responsible for the School of Crafstmanship, Workshops, and Commercial devisions.

Fundação Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva
In 1953, the banker and collector Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva donated the Azurara Palace and part of his private collection to the Portuguese State. Thus was born the Foundation with his name and a Museum-School was created with the purpose of protecting and disseminating the Portuguese Decorative Arts and the crafts related to them. Today, besides the Museum of Decorative Arts, the Foundation today hosts 18 workshops of traditional Portuguese arts and crafts, keeping alive a highly important body of intangible heritage and knowledge, and ensuring specialised conservation and restoration of Portuguese heritage. The Foundation also runs a school dedicated to the teaching of arts and crafts, the Institute of Arts and Crafts, in which our mission to preserve knowledge and heritage takes top priority. After several decades, the Foundation continues to be a prestigious reference in the dissemination and preservation of Portuguese decorative arts heritage and knowledge.

Elisa Guidi is an Architect, and she studied in Florence and Paris. She has worked since 1996 for Artex, Center for Artistic and Traditional Crafts for Tuscany. Since 2004 she has been the Coordinator of projects for Artex. In 2016 she became a member of the Foundation MIC, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza. In 2015 she joined the board of World Crafts Council Europe. In September 2020, she was elected President. Since July 2022, she has been a member of the Governing Council of CsaVRI, the service centre for the University of Florence incubator.

World Crafts Council Europe
World Crafts Council Europe is a non-profit membership organisation that aims to promote international interest in crafts and encourage contact between the craftspeople of any country. Our mission is to elevate awareness of crafts as an integral part of cultural, social and economic life.

Fatima Durkee’s professional focus has been urban design and business development. With a concentration on cross-disciplinary projects between architecture, design, sustainability, craftsmanship and social science. At the core of her work is the study of complex systems. Also, a constant drive for a harmonious relationship between humans and the earth is present. She has worked in New York, Mexico City and Lisbon.

Passa Ao Futuro
Passa Ao Futuro is a research-based initiative that designs programs to support the transfer of tacit ancestral knowledge. It cultivates an interface for developing ideas, techniques and skills between the historical past and the sustainable future. It facilitates collaboration and innovation between artisans and designers in producing socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable utilitarian designs and architecture.

Ivana Borovnjak graduated in conceptual design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2007. Since then, she has been actively contributing to the independent cultural scene through projects of various sizes and impacts. From 2013 to 2017, she was the director of the Croatian Designers Association, involved in the creative direction, curation and management of initiatives, platforms, festivals and educational projects. She designs, curates, researches and writes about design.
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Oaza – Made In
Oaza is a design practice based in Zagreb founded by six partners in 2013. Oaza designs, researches, curates, directs and edits content for visual identities, books, campaigns, exhibitions and digital media. Next to commissions and collaborations, Oaza investigates topics of interest within self-initiated projects Made In and Oaza Books.

Deputy Director of CEARTE. Member the Board of WCC Europe. Extensive experience in the preparation of projects for training and preparation of applications for Community Programs and in the coordination and monitoring of transnational training projects. Author of several articles and communications within the thematic Crafts and Vocational Training. Coordinator of the work team to update the National Qualifications Catalog in the Handicraft and Jewelery Area. Member of the work group on the Sectorial Study for Craft Activities. Communications in Congresses and Seminars in Portugal, Europe and Latin America on Vocational Training, Crafts, Heritage and Innovation.

CEARTE
CEARTE – Professional Training Centre for Crafts and Heritage offers, all over the country, qualification (long-term) and improvement (short-term) training throughout the country. Starting from tradition and traditional know-how, it trains and stimulates innovation, training for prestigious professions, valuing artisanal work through its identity, culture and uniqueness. CEARTE also provides professional and school certification; offers to mentor for the creation and development of small businesses; provides technical support to production units; innovation guides and is responsible for the technical appraisal of the Craftsman Charter and Artisanal Production Unit (UPA) and the Certification of Traditional Artisanal Productions.

Director of CEARTE – Center for professional training for artisans and patrimony. Member of the Boards Sectoral areas of Crafts and Culture and Heritage, under the ANQEP. Member of the Consultative Committee for the Certification of Traditional Artisan Productions. Member of the Working Group that analyzes the processes of attribution of the Artisan Charter and the Artisan Productive Unit. Coordinator of different European projects and exchanges associated with crafts.

CEARTE
CEARTE – Professional Training Centre for Crafts and Heritage offers, all over the country, qualification (long-term) and improvement (short-term) training throughout the country. Starting from tradition and traditional know-how, it trains and stimulates innovation, training for prestigious professions, valuing artisanal work through its identity, culture and uniqueness. CEARTE also provides professional and school certification; offers to mentor for the creation and development of small businesses; provides technical support to production units; innovation guides and is responsible for the technical appraisal of the Craftsman Charter and Artisanal Production Unit (UPA) and the Certification of Traditional Artisanal Productions.

Joana is a creative and cultural consultant. Passionate about her work of interlinking the human potential with arts, aesthetics, and creativity. Working on projects of diverse scales, from personal to governmental, such as having been a consultant in the partnership of the Urban Agenda for the EU on jobs and skills in the local economy, Chief Talent Officer at Porto Municipality, kick off of the Porto Talent Office, executive director of ADDICT – agency for the development of creative industries in Porto, deputy of the arts at DGArtes, Ministry of Culture in Lisbon. Joana leads processes from micro and personal perspective into a macro wide perspective of society.

Museologist and Cultural Management. Municipal Director at Loulé’s Municipality. President of the Assembly General of Acesso Cultura (since 2022). Doctoral programme in museology (2007/2009). Master in Art History (2007). Degree in History –Archaeology (1996). Regional Director of Culture in the Algarve (2009-2013). Invited assistant at the University of Algarve.

Loulé City Council / Loulé Criativo
“Loulé Criativo” is an initiative by the Loulé Municipal Council aimed at enhancing and promoting the identity of the Algarve. The project supports the training and activity of artisans and other people working in the creative sector. It helps to revitalise traditional arts and crafts and dynamise new approaches to intangible heritage areas.

Xavier Long is the head of the Data and strategic intelligence department at the French Savoir-Faire Institute. After a decade of working as a marketing researcher, Xavier decided to serve artistic crafts and living heritage companies – companies and artisans he admires. With his team, his department centralises, processes and analyses all the qualitative and quantitative data linked to all that concerns artistic crafts and living heritage companies’ development.

Institut National des Métiers d’Art
Founded in 1889, the French Savoir-Faire Institute is a non-profit association under the triple aegis of the French Ministries of Economy, Culture and Education. It conducts a support policy for artistic crafts and Living Heritage Companies. It actively participates in the promotion of French savoir-faire at national and international levels.