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Conservation of Climate Change Endangered Cultural Furniture Industry Heritage in Damietta, Egypt

Scan the QR code to find out more about efforts to protect the craft furniture industry of Damietta in Egypt in light of environmental and structural changes.


This project, drawing on the expertise of Professor Stuart Walker, is closely related to Located Making and is a collaboration between the University of Salford and Lancaster University, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The CRAFT questionnaire aims to determine how the values and motivations of workers and enterprises in Damietta inform possible ways forward for contemporary and sustainable industrial development and can be accessed here or via the QR code. An overview of the project can be found here.