Con la presencia de mil artesanas y artesanos y sus acompañantes, y una invitación abierta al público en general, este 17 de noviembre de 2022 dio inicio ORIGINAL. Encuentro de Arte Textil Mexicano, movimiento que tiene por objetivo crear conciencia sobre el valor del trabajo artesanal y los derechos de la propiedad colectiva y fomentar la construcción de una nueva ética en las relaciones de las personas artesanas y sus comunidades con la industria del diseño.

Design Indaba in partnership with Google Arts & Culture launched an online project called ‘Colours of Africa’. The project brings online and showcases 60 specially-curated artworks produced by over 60 unique African creatives chosen by Design Indaba – each invited to contribute a work that captures the ‘colour’ and character of their home country. The project involves creatives from almost every discipline imaginable, from architecture, illustration, painting and ceramics through to writing, engineering, the performing arts and visual communications.

On the 15 October 2022 between 9.00am and 12.30pm (IST – Colombo time) the workshop “Next generation of Sri Lankan designers – Developing and innovating Sri Lankan craft for export” took place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with the aim to promote understanding of the craft and contemporary design for export, identify skills, design and craft opportunities within own network and explore how to add and create higher value through design intervention.

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), through the Subcommission on Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts (SCCTA), leads the celebration of the National Indigenous Peoples (IP) Month this October, bannering the theme “Pagtataguyod ng Pamayanang Kultural para sa Isang Matatag na Pilipinas.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tribute to India’s rich cultural diversity and all those working to celebrate India’s artistic traditions on the occasion of National Handloom Day.

The Productivity Commission's draft report into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual arts and crafts identifies the value of and addresses deficiencies in these markets.