Projects
Over the years, we have supported many clients and managed education, research, strategy and design projects in varied creative fields.
A common denominator across all of our projects, is our passion to create value through deep dedication to art, creativity, sustainability and responsible production.
Contamos Todos em Macedo de Cavaleiros
Project management, contents, training, graphic and editorial design. "Contamos Todos" promotes artistic and cultural practices in Macedo de Cavaleiros, a remote region in Northeastern Portugal. Our intervention focuses on the wool and silk clusters and includes training and education for local stakeholders, developing learning materials and registering traditional weaving patterns and techniques. Read more about this subject in our journal
Saber Fazer em Vinhais
Project management, contents, training and graphic and editorial design. "Viver Mais e Melhor" is a follow-up for our 2021-2023 "Cultura para Todos" initiative, when we first piloted a community learning methodology that we are now adopting in other projects at both the national and European levels. Our intervention focuses on the wool cluster and includes training and education for local stakeholders, developing learning materials and registering traditional weaving patterns and techniques. Read more about this project in our Journal.
Typologies of Community - The Afrobanana Solarpunk Collectivity
This project, funded by the Creative Europe Programme, aims to redefine community building through a sustainable lens using the platform of the Afrobanana Festival in Cyprus. As the festival approaches its 12th edition, the focus is not just on celebrating the arts but on evolving into a year-round platform that actively engages and influences communities. The consortium includes partners from Cyprus, Greece and Portugal.
CommunityCloth: building capacity for community educators towards sustainable urban transition
CommunityCloth is an Erasmus Plus project (2024) coordinated by Barbot Bernardo, having Alternative Brain Rules from Cyprus and Smuss Studio from Norway as partners. CommunityCloth created tools to promote new training models and provide knowledge for community creation around farm-to-cloth productions. It created a network of educators as a cost-effective way of scaling knowledge transfer. More about this project
Edições Saber Fazer
Our in-house book publisher, focusing on technical books on the topics of craft and small-scale manufacturing. Our Saber Fazer unit is the editor and publisher and our graphic design studio Ofício is in charge of the visuals and all the editorial design. You can find our collection at Saber Fazer website.
GatewayCrafts
GatewayCrafts is an Erasmus Plus which started in 2023 and his coordinated by Barbot Bernardo and has Cru Creative Hub (Por) and Matera Hub (ITA) as partners. The project consists of preparing pilots to facilitate access to technical knowledge in small-scale manufacturing and artisanal work. In addition, it will seek to develop and distribute high-quality educational content, oriented and adapted for contemporary audiences and digital media. The learning strategy combines more conventional elements of distance learning, such as those already found in Saber Fazer's online courses, with others developed and adapted for a social learning logic and more informal learning on social networks.Find out how we created GatewayCrafts’s identity.
Cultura Para Todos em Vinhais
Project management, contents, training and graphic and editorial design. Cultura Para Todos em Vinhais is a project dedicated to promoting artistic and cultural practices in the Municipality of Vinhais, a remote region in Northeastern Portugal. Our intervention focuses on the wool cluster and includes training and education for local stakeholders, developing learning materials and registering traditional weaving patterns and techniques
Muun Consulting
Project management and support in the preparation of proposals. We supported Muun Consulting by managing a project to organise four techweek events throughout 2022 and 2023. During 2022 we also helped this consultancy firm in the development of different projects and prepared different proposals for national grants.
Craftmanship+ (Porto/ UE)
Project management and proposal preparation for an Erasmus+ project. The idea for the project came from Ofício/Saber Fazer, an application prepared with the consultancy Advancis Business Services, Aveiro University and a consortium of organisations from different countries. Started in 2015, Craftsmanship+ focused on knowledge transmission processes in the craft sector, both in terms of teaching techniques and in management and entrepreneurship processes.
Roteiro Oficinal do Porto
Research and documentation on the productive ecosystem in Porto. ROP, a Saber Fazer project, began in November 2012 to map the specialised local labour and small-scale production units that currently work in the city.
Factor PME
Support to a Portuguese consultancy in the technical coordination of a joint project in the field of digital economy and information and communication technologies. The project was funded by COMPETE.