Finally, after a week settling into thesis writing I have written this morning the first 1000 words! I got up at 5am and worked until 10am. By that time my eyes got rather tired from staring at the monitor. Went for a little run and for lunch at mum`s (`Ujhazi` chicken soup, oven baked chicken with apple and rosemary and a very delicious sauce I can`t translate. I was tempted to read a bit more about herbs after the watermelon dessert, but decided to cycle home. I gave myself a little free time and watched a short documentary something like the One and a Half Million Steps in Hungary about rambling, which is my favourite and did some gardening after. The jungle is slowly getting under control.
Cornelia told me about the Northumbria Community and the monks who have a well-structured rhythm of each day, morning study and prayer, afternoon gardening, cooking, walking and the evening … I can`t remember the evening, but there is reflection somewhere as well. I need to ask about the evening. I must be tired by now.
It is sad to think that when I go back to England The House with The Garden will be empty again. I feel slightly guilty about the trees and hedges that need some tender loving care. The window frames that desperately need painting and the putty replaced. I have plans for the House and for the Garden and once again the plans need to be nurtured for other year. Secretly, I play with the thoughts what if I don’t have to go back and I can stay. God knows what needs to happen and I do trust his judgment better than mine.
As I promised finally, it is time to introduce Glocal Trinnovation:
Glocal Trinnovation is a new term created by my sleepy self one day, to be more precise very early morning between 2 and 3 am as my research has progressed about local skills, material and markets in Hungary. It is made from two portmanteau words.
Glocal has been used by Glocal. – Media and Communication for Development `The word Glocal is derived from glocalization, meaning ‘think global, act local’ (http://www.glocal.nu)
Trinnovation combines the words tradition and innovation and enhances a connection between the experience of tradition and the advances of innovation.
Coming from a 3rd generation dressmaker family I started to be interested in the transition from grandparents to my generation of consumers and how opportunity entrepreneurship has turned into necessity entrepreneurship during the 3 generation. I couldn’t help to start a comparison based on my English and African experience.
That is how the idea of Glocal Trinnovation was born examining the effects of policy making on the decreasing number of Hungarian artisans.
Glocal Trinnovation tries to analyse the relationship between empowerment and social sustainability in traditional craft and contemporary fashion (product design and development) through policy making and its long-term effects on local economical growth. It embraces on a new way of approaching the relationship between fashion and traditional craft by using local skills, local sources and local markets under the umbrella of global knowledge and innovation.
While I was running this morning I decided to have a website for Glocal Trinnovation and create a community for those who are passionate about traditional craft and its possibilities in design and development by embracing local skills, materials and markets. I am thinking about a platform to share ideas.
With an example New Creations (an East London based small business uses crochet as a skill, leftover wool and local market making baby booties, bags and summer hats) to generate income. The idea of minimum carbon footprint during the `production` and keeping the money within the community when I ordered a bootie for a friend and the fact that it is hand-made and unique gave me a real buzz.
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