IRCICA and Muscat Municipality are jointly organizing the Muscat ...
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<strong>Muscat</strong> International Award forInnovation <strong>and</strong> Creativity in Crafts,Awards worth US$100.000<strong>Muscat</strong>, Sultanate of Omanon 3-23 February 2012IntroductionH<strong>and</strong>icrafts around <strong>the</strong> world consist of a rich range of remarkable innovations in variousfields such as decoration, carpets, sadou <strong>and</strong> kilim, mushrabiya, stucco colored glass,engineering designs, bookbinding, miniatures, traditional costumes <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rmasterpieces that continue to stimulate effectively tourism <strong>and</strong> economy <strong>and</strong> highlightinnovations in <strong>the</strong> field of cultural heritage.Efforts to be made in order to revive this sector <strong>are</strong> among <strong>the</strong> priorities that should betaken into consideration to ensure <strong>the</strong> prosperity of this vital sector, including <strong>the</strong>improvement of living conditions <strong>and</strong> social <strong>and</strong> economic situation of craftspeople, byinitiating periodic training programs for <strong>the</strong>m <strong>and</strong> providing <strong>the</strong>m with all requirementsof raw materials, as well as ensuring appropriate opportunities for <strong>the</strong> marketing of <strong>the</strong>irproducts. Innovation should be also encouraged by awarding <strong>the</strong> promising winners inorder to stimulate competition spirit, <strong>and</strong> thus ensure renewable innovations leading to<strong>the</strong> emergence of new products in <strong>the</strong> h<strong>and</strong>icrafts field of which we <strong>are</strong> proud of.This is why awards should be allocated to <strong>the</strong> innovators of artisans in order to stimulate<strong>and</strong> ensure continuity of creativity.Importance of <strong>the</strong> AwardThe importance of <strong>the</strong> award is that it will stimulate innovation spirit, encouragingartisans for more creativity <strong>and</strong> drawing attention on craftspeople <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir important rolein preserving crafts heritage.Objectives: Taking measures that ensure originality <strong>and</strong> research, organization of crafts training<strong>and</strong> determination of <strong>the</strong> method of cooperation in this <strong>are</strong>a. Developing <strong>the</strong>se arts <strong>and</strong> increasing <strong>the</strong> young artisans’ innovative predispositionthrough competitive programs <strong>and</strong> incentives for variation <strong>and</strong> creativity, <strong>and</strong> thusachieving renewable h<strong>and</strong>icrafts industries. Defining a practical policy to ensure innovation spirit in <strong>the</strong> crafts sector <strong>and</strong> comingup with a clear plan of action to revive this field, as it constitutes a support in <strong>the</strong>cultural, economic <strong>and</strong> touristic <strong>are</strong>as in <strong>the</strong> countries of <strong>the</strong> world. Improving artisans’ conditions of work <strong>and</strong> streng<strong>the</strong>ning <strong>the</strong>ir innovative capacities.51
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