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.
Saber Fazer at Biblioteca Almeida Garrett
Cycle of 11 workshops for children and families held at Porto’s public library between 2026 and 2027. For this first cycle, Saber Fazer organised workshops on book binding, wool felting, weaving and ceramics.
From Soil to Story with The Lissome Magazine
"Reclaiming clothing culture, artistic craft and print publishing as sensual and sense-making practices, The Lissome offers a gentle space for reflection and dialogue." Following up on Dörte de Jesus last visit to Saber Fazer in 2024, the 2026 ECHN P2P was an initiative to explore joint opportunities. During one week, we explored Porto’s creative and editorial ecosystem and hosted the round table "From Soil to Story". Read more about this subject in our journal
TransparencyChain - Tech and digital skills for the crafts sector.
The TransparencyChain Erasmus+ project, coordinated by Barbot Bernardo, aims to make blockchain-based provenance tracking accessible to craftspeople from different backgrounds. By developing a scalable platform and providing training, the project will enhance transparency in the craft sector, ensuring ethical sourcing and sustainable production. The project will also foster digital skills, helping craftspeople improve their market competitiveness through digital marketing strategies. Read more about this subject in our journal
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
Binomial Advisory
Visual identity for Binomial Advisory. Read all about this case 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.
ECHN P2P Programme with the Textile Prototyping Lab (GER).
This P2P was an initiative of our friends at the Textile Prototyping Lab from Germany, to explore joint opportunities, share experiences, and get to know each other's hubs and communities. During one week, we explored Porto’s textile ecosystem, with plenty of visits to factories and meetings with fellow creative hubs. On the last day, we hosted an event at Saber Fazer, where other hubs and community members had the opportunity to get to know each other and present their projects and organizations. Read more about the event 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
LAUDS FACTORIES
Technical Assessment. LAUDS Factories aims at contributing to an open and sustainable European value-based production. 15 partners collaborate to set up local urban factories for scaling up digitally distributed and open innovations. The project will launch 2 open calls for 14+ projects awarding up to a total of 240.000 EURO, and organize exhibitions, events and workshops dedicated to the new paradigm of open and sustainable urban manufacturing in Europe.
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.
Circular Art Marketplace
Strategic Plan and Business Model for a collaborative platform and marketplace for European artists and designers working with sustainable materials. The project was funded by the Creative Europe Programme
Capacity Building for the Serralves Foundation
In 2023, we launched a training project for technicians from the Serralves Park education service to create new activities for different audiences, taking advantage of the Park's existing resources. We organised training sessions on wool processing, weaving and shearing to use wool from the Park's flock and integrate wool processing into the annual educational activities. Once again, we planted flax and organised a long-form linen course from seed to yarn.
Capacity Building for Parque Biológico de Gaia
In 2023, we launched a training project for technicians from the Gaia Biological Park education service to create new activities for different audiences, taking advantage of the Park's existing resources. We organised training sessions on wool processing to use wool from the Park's flock and integrate wool processing into the annual educational activities.
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
Bombarda Porto Art District
Assistance to Associação Quarteirão Criativo in the preparation of different proposals for grants and incentive programs. For over 25 years, the Miguel Bombarda District has established itself as an epicentre of artistic and creative businesses in Porto. The Association, founded in 2022, represents several dozen businesses and aims to boost projects in favour of the broader community of the neighbourhood.
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.
Associação Saber Fazer
Preparation of proposals for cooperation programs for Associação Saber Fazer, a not-for-profit founded in 2021, with the aim of, among others, making Portuguese manufacturing a strategic asset for an inclusive and sustainable development of territories and communities.
Batalha Centro de Cinema
Technical support for a historic cinema in Central Porto. In this project, we supported Ágora, a company within the Municipality of Porto sphere, in defining an operating model for the bar-cafeteria of the iconic and superbly restored Cinema Batalha.
Photograph: Batalha Centro de Cinema
Porto Fashion and Fabric Museum
Research, creation of exhibition content, production of texts and technical and scientific advice for the installation of the Porto Fashion and Fabric Museum located at WOW - World of Wine, in Vila Nova de Gaia.