From AlpTextyles to Culturality
Rozman Award Recognition as a Model of Practice-Based Heritage Work
The Faculty of Design in Ljubljana has granted the Rozman Award recognition to the team behind the Alp Textyles textile school, acknowledging their expertise, commitment, and collaboration in enabling and delivering hands-on work in textile techniques and design. The ceremony took place on 22 January at Center Rog, where the award was presented to CULTURALITY researcher Katarina Šrimpf Vendramin, Handicrafts centre Škofja Loka coordinator Kati Sekirnik, and artists involved in CULTURALITY project: Anja Musek, Lili Panjtar and Andreja Stržinar (among others).
Alp Textyles project (Interreg Alpine Space programme, 2022–2025) aimed to bring together Alpine textile ecosystems to strengthen the knowledge base for research and education, support heritage sensitive and circular approaches, and contribute to regional development. It demonstrated an effective practice-based approach to project work by connecting specialist knowledge, field practice, and textile heritage. ZRC SAZU contributed research-based expertise on cultural heritage and supported the project’s engagement with crafts knowledge and heritage practices. The project has now concluded, but the approach is being taken forward in the CULTURALITY project where we build on collaboration with craftspeople and develop tourism in rural areas through locally grounded skills, knowledge, and cultural practices.
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Photography: Loti Kavšek
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