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Nest Convening 2019
Handwork Rebooted: Technology’s
Role in the Handworker Economy
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The notorious debate, technology: boon or bane?, gets a reboot at Nest’s 2019
convening, as Nest, partners, and friends gather to explore technology’s role in
building a connected, transparent, globalized handworker economy. Through a series
of panels, workshops, and live installations, we will uncover the ways that humans can
work in consort with new platforms like social media, machine learning, and blockchain
to stimulate both supply and demand for handmade products while illuminating the
handworker population with greater clarity than ever.
Venue: TBD
Timing: October 3, 2019
S E S S ION LINEUP
Session 1: The Modern Cottage Industry
In developed areas of the world, we are seeing rapid growth of the gig economy
and a rising number of full-time employees who work at least partially from home. In
the informal economy, home-based workers are commonplace, with the craft industry
offering a rare means for women to both earn an income from home as well as to care
for their children. How is technology playing an unprecedented role in building new
webs of connectivity across a dispersed workforce; how can its economic potential
be harnessed to bring isolated workers into the mainstream economy; and how can
technology improve production efficiency and product quality across decentralized
supply chains? This panel discussion will explore various models for a new, modern
cottage industry, deconstructing the advantages and technological advancements that
can enable them to thrive.
Session 2: From Innovation to Conservation
Circular economy concepts play a critical role in ensuring natural resource protection.
How are handworkers incorporating circular design thinking into their production and
how is the industry rethinking “waste”? Exploring a broad array of technology-enabled
innovations that are improving raw materials use throughout every stage of production
from sourcing through product care, waste elimination, and reuse, this panel discussion
will lay out successful strategies being utilized by both handworkers and by those
leveraging handworking systems to redesign the way we make.
Session 3: Restructuring the Artisan Market The internet age is fostering a more demographic selling environment that helps small businesses reach critical masses with fewer resources than ever before. With relatively little investment, artisans around the world can begin to sell their products on online marketplaces, conduct business with clients via Whatsapp, photograph their products with a smartphone, and market their brands on social media. This panel will explore innovative new selling platforms that are democratizing the selling process, unlocking new opportunities for artisans while bringing more diversified product offerings to brands and consumers. Session 4: Visualizing Handworkers When it comes to visualizing the individuals, families, and communities that comprise the global community of “handworkers”, brands and consumers are largely forced to put their imaginations to work. How can new technologies like blockchain and mobile surveys illuminate retail supply chains beyond the four-walled factory, giving clarity, both quantitatively and qualitatively, to the artisan population? This panel discussion will delve into concrete ways that technology can be used to improve supply chain transparency all the way the homeworker level, cutting through murky and complex layers of subcontracting. The panel will further explore the ways that technology can be implemented to fill handwork’s gaping data vacuum to put numbers behind the social and economic potential of the craft-based economy. Session 5: Hand vs. Machine: Defining Artisan As machine learning plays a bigger role business, what place does the human hand maintain in shaping modern production? This live debate will weigh hand and machine, exploring their overlapping spheres of influence and ways they can work in consort to carry craft into the future. The session will explore hand and machine’s competing and complementary qualities through new lenses such as the psychology behind our love for handmade items; innovative engineering for integrating machines into artisan production equipment; and how digital tools can make hand production more efficient, precise, and competitive. Together, we will aim to isolate the key ingredients of artisanal goods, determining what level of technological integration is permissible before an item crosses from craft into another category. Discussion will be followed by a live screening of a new Nest short film offering a meditation upon the essential qualities of craftsmanship that imbue everyday objects with value, capture our hearts and minds, and transport us through time and space.
Entering its third year, Nest’s annual New Handworker Economy Convening has generated more than 12
million media impressions from leading news outlets and has engaged recognized pioneers from public
and private sectors in leading thought provoking dialogue on the future of handwork.
“In working with young talent and young designers, we
are trying to bring the craft and art element together
with the technology because we recognize that there is
a place for all of the different approaches.”
—Burak Cakmak (Nest Convening 2017)
Scenes from the 2018 and 2017 Convenings
“There’s this brave new world of video that can make
a difference. In the Dries Van Noten retrospective [at
the Musée des Arts Décoratifs] in Paris, he had a video
of the communities he works with in India [playing on a
screen] right in the middle of the museum with all of his
clothes. I thought that was very powerful and a really
good way to tell that story.” 2018 Session on Building the Ecosystem: Aligning values across 2018 Keynote. Left to right:
—Vanessa Friedman (Nest Convening 2017) investment, philanthropy, and industry. Left to right: Riefqah Jappie Jean-Yves Fillion, CEO, BNP
(ITC representative to the UN), Charlotte Bancilhon (BSR), Diego Paribas USA and Head of
Olivero (Meso Goods), Ivanka Mamic (Target) CIB Americas with Jim Brett,
(Former) CEO, J Crew Group
“[Before mass production,]
Consumers were able to recognize
the authenticity and exclusivity of
the product and [they] are going to
rediscover [authenticity] and value
[craftsmanship] again.”
—Simone Cipriani (Nest Convening
2017 on Telling the Story of the New Handworker Economy. Close to 400 attendees gather at the United Nations for 2017)
Left to right: Andrew Morgan (The True Cost), Vanessa Nest’s first New Handworker Economy Convening
Friedman (The New York Times), Cristiana Falcone Sorrel
(World Economic Forum), Bandana Tewari (Business of Fashion)
Partnership Levels
$30,000 plus in-kind event space donation: Title Partner
PARTIC IPATIO N R ECOGNITION
• 10 Tickets for corporate staff and clients to attend Nest’s • Brand name in Convening press release header as title
Handworker Economy Convening • partner
• Full Table (10 Seats) at Nest Artisan Impact Dinner • Brand quote in Convening press release (we ask that this be
• Brand representative welcome remarks at Nest’s an executive or c-suite level representative)
Handworker Economy Convening (we ask that this be an • Listing as Title Partner in all Convening materials
executive or c-suite level representative) • Topline logo placement on Convening invitations, programs,
• Complimentary Nest employee engagement activity during and online event page
Artisan Leadership Summit or anytime for one year following • Topline logo placement on all Convening signage
(Nest team to staff and implement) • 1 Nest e-newsletter inclusion
• 1 blog post feature on the Nest website
• 5 social media posts from the @buildanest channels tagging
your brand
• Access to all convening photography
$25,000: Convening Partner
PARTIC IPATIO N R ECOGNITION
• 10 Tickets for corporate staff & clients to attend Nest’s • Brand name mention in Convening press release
Handworker Economy Convening • Second line logo placement on Convening invitations,
• Half Table (5 Seats) at Nest Artisan Impact Dinner programs, and online event page
• Second line logo placement on all Convening signage
• 1 Nest e-newsletter inclusion
• 1 blog post inclusion on the Nest website
• 3 social media posts from the @buildanest channels
tagging your brand
• Access to all convening photography
$10,000: Convening Supporter
PARTIC IPATIO N R ECOGNITION
• 2 Tickets for corporate staff & clients to attend Nest’s • Logo inclusion on Convening invitations, programs, and
Handworker Economy Convening online event page
• 2 Seats at Nest Artisan Impact Dinner • Logo inclusion on all Convening signage
• 1 blog post inclusion on the Nest website
• 2 social media posts from the @buildanest channels tagging
your brand
• Access to all convening photography
$5,000: Friends of the Convening
PARTIC IPATIO N R ECOGNITION
• 1 Ticket for corporate staff & clients to attend Nest’s • Logo inclusion on Convening event page on Nest website
Handworker Economy Convening • Logo inclusion on Convening printed programs
• 1 Seat at Nest Artisan Impact Dinner • 1 social media post from @buildanest channels tagging
your brand
• Access to all convening photography
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