About

DFFWAC Team

• Creative Director Guta Moura Guedes
• External Director Rita Sousa Tavares
• Financial Director Teresa Oliveira
• Financial Assistant Madalena Madeira
• Head of Production and Development Joana Morais
• Production Assistant Mariana Ferreira
• Head of Communication and Editing Miguel Côrte-Real
• Graphic Designer Margarida Vilhena
• Web Designer and Developer Mariana Rosa
• Digital Platforms Designer Trainee Viktoria Gretchenko

D4C – Design for Crafts Association

Mission

1. The objective of the Association is to contribute towards reinforcing and improving craft clusters through the introduction of design strategies that allow for the preservation of female-led artisan communities in Portugal and other countries around the world, produce knowledge concerning national and international craft activity and explore the intercultural relationships between different women-driven crafts communities on a global scale.
2. The Association may develop any activity connected to the premisses referred in the previous number.
3. For the accomplishment of its aims, the Association may, specifically:
   • Create and develop original site-specific design projects to maintain and update craft practices, providing them with visibility and economic sustainability;
   • Explore intercultural relationships between different previously existing communities of female and male artisans and develop new interactions, considering contemporary migration flows;
   • Implement educational initiatives that guarantee the imparting of traditional techniques and know-how with the objective of creating future generations of female and male artisans;
   • Bring together urban and rural contexts, driving the theme of crafts into large cities and relocating new generations and markets into rural environments;
   • Introduce new materials and technologies, including digital ones, into the universe of women-made crafts, opening the door for new typologies of crafts based on new 21^st Century contexts;
   • Undertake a global mapping of crafts and the development of a digital database, studying the relationship between the universe of crafts and social, cultural and environmental sustainability;
   • Develop activities aimed at reinforcing the recognition, economic sustainability and overall improvement of craft practices, through the introduction of strategies based on processes specific to the field of design;
   • Establish training and skill-building programmes for female and male artisans from all ages and nationalities, in order to solidify the sustainable production of age-old and contemporary crafts through the imparting of knowledge, methodologies and techniques;
   • Explore intercultural relationships between different communities of male and female artisans across the world, contributing to the social, cultural and economic integration of migrant communities through the practice of crafts;
   • Spearhead conferences, exhibitions and other initiatives that contribute towards the dissemination and recognition of crafts;
   • Establish partnerships with institutions and other entities, both public and private, national and international, which operate in fields that are complementary to those of the Association, with the aim of developing its projects.

Governing Bodies

• General Assembly

  • President Catarina Zagalo
  • Secretary Margarida Couto

• Board of Directors

  • President Guta Moura Guedes
  • Member Teresa Rodrigues
  • Member José António Pinto Ribeiro

• Financial Board

  • President Sara do Ó
  • Secretary Miguel Caiado
  • Secretary Rita Sousa Tavares

• Advisory Board

  • President Julião Sarmento
  • Vice-President Miguel Pereira Leite
  • Secretary Paulo Gomes