Designers from all over the country are being challenged by the TASA – Técnicas Ancestralis, Soluções Atuals project to apply for the first edition of the “Innovation in the Interlaced” award. This competition has two categories and offers the winners 500 euros in cash and a paid artist residency in Loulé.
The target audience of this initiative is «students or recent graduates in product, equipment or industrial design», who are challenged «to apply innovation in the search for solutions for everyday needs, linked to the practical function of the object, using the interweavings in plant materials (cane, palm, straw, board, among others)», according to TASA.
Projects can be submitted until March 7, 2018. Participation conditions may be consulted here.
At the end, prizes will be given in the categories TASA utilitarian and TASA hotelaria, which can be won by just one person.
The award comes “in a context of imminent extinction of the ancestral techniques of weaving in plant materials, given the advanced age of the artisans (those who collaborate with TASA have an average age of over 70 years)”.
The promoters of this project had already warned of the risk of "an important cultural loss and disappearance of an activity with a clear contribution to the values of sustainability", during the presentation of the TASA catalog for 2018, where the launch of the award was originally announced.
The “Innovation in Interlaced” award has the support of Anantara Vilamoura Algarve Resort, «a partner that bets on the TASA Project as a way to provide an authentic and differentiating experience to its customers, focused on valuing local culture'.
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