G&G Design Lab and Workshops

In our desire to keep upgrading our value chain and improving the capacity of our partner producers, Gifts and Graces conducted a trainors training on fair trade principles, enterprise management, product development, and measuring social impact last May. You can read more about it in our Facebook note here.

Danny working on a bamboo basket. Based in Ulot Watershed Project, Samar

To further deepen our work in improving product development, we've conceptualized a Design Lab, a place for inquiry in design and technique. The lab will bring together craftsmen, designers, and engineers to tackle a design challenge. Tackling these challenges, we believe will foster innovation in technique and design. 

Nanay learning how to sew leather products. Based in Tondo, Manila

The G&G Design Lab will benefit G&G's partner producers by transferring the technology discovered in the lab to our craftsmen sewers, doll makers, basket makers, weavers, and many others. 

Ate Minda and Juliet making bags out of newspapers. Based in Pandacan, Manila.

Nanay cutting handmade paper made out of cogon grass. Based in Kiloloron, Quezon

To help make the Design Lab and Workshops a reality, Gifts and Graces has partnered with Social Project.PH, a crowdfunding platform specifically for social enterprises in the Philippines. The beauty of crowdfunding is that we don't have to wait to be millionaires to support the causes we believe in. For this project, we are hoping to raise $4700 for the first Design Workshop. 

Here's the video we prepared to show how design gets translated into product which gets translated into sales: 

In other words, we are building a Design Lab that changes lives

Please support the Design Lab by clicking on this link:

https://socialproject.ph/u/GiftsandGraces/design-lab-and-workshops-for-social-innovation

Donations start at $5 but the rewards get interesting at $15 :) Looking forward to your support in helping change lives through design and craftsmanship.