Hi, I am a Designer and my design training is based in  ceramics.

I am very much at the beginning of my journey in learning about the needs of the world and where I fit in but my vision or intentions are so far as follows;

I would like to use my skills as a designer to help indigenous communities protect and nurture traditional handicraft skills that are being lost in the globalised use of mass produced cheap and often harmful products.  I would like to use the combination of design and traditional craft as a positive representation in global markets of diverse cultures, which can provide a new income for crafts people as well as empowering them and preserving culture. 

I want to use my design skills in any way possible to help poverty stricken communities make more of the materials that are available to them, to teach them how to innovate, recycle and reuse. 

I hope to do a masters in Design for Development in the near future and I continue to read up on sustainability, cradle to cradle practices and various other philosophies.