Day 118 The Joy of a Conclusion and the Smashing of a Lindt Reindeer

11.54am

Today’s task is to finish the conclusion and start on the bibliography. Worry of the day: my eyes are already hurting. Hope of the day: only days now and I am going to be a free woman. Shall this be the light at the end of the tunnel! Am gonna smash and eat the Lindt Reindeer I got from Fuzz for looking after the kids in the crèche as soon as I finish the conclusion.

14.34pm

Conclusion finished praise God. Ruth prayed for the words to flow this morning again. I am loving the power of prayer.

I would love to say it ready, but still have to do the bibliography and the pictures. At the moment 50 pages and 20.656 words. And I desperately need to rest my eyes for a bit.

It is time to smash and eat the chocolate Reindeer J

Conclusion

The writer concludes that whilst climate change is already restructuring the face of globalisation and as new design development principles are implemented within the framework of local sustainable fashion the bases of policy making and its practical implementations need to come to a conclusion in line with the relationship between economic and business what its major focus for the next fifty years is going to be within the EU under the umbrella of growth: does it measured in profit (economic growth) or well-being (the opportunity of creating sustainable livelihoods)? If it is measured in profit, is it based on supporting local development to produce or supporting the current trend of consume, based on the availability of the global markets? If it is measured in well-being is the foundation of uniting policies within the EU to achieve that is being planned and how to they are going to be implemented? As the standard of living and wages in China and India are growing in parallel with that of the current phenomenon of cheap labour which is slowly shifting towards the end of an era marked by ‘over-consumed-needs’ the bubble of growth needs to be shifted towards local micro enterprises and SMEs. To take advantage on that niche could potentially become the competitive advantage of the EU as a whole and its individual countries.

Creating well-being on both the individual and the community that affects the economic growth of a country and the positioning in the wider economic area whilst preserving and transforming traditional craft helps to build on heritage and follows the narrative human history and development.

Creating well-being of the individual by increasing community well-being whilst decreasing the entrepreneurial fees and the bureaucracy burden in Hungary could give the artisans a chance to re-enter the ‘lost’ markets with innovative products and actively practice their skills in employment instead of reducing the possible economic value of the trade to a hobby.

KEY FINDINGS:

If the EU pushed The Hungarian Government the barriers of entrepreneurial activity would be reduced.

Recommendations:

In line with the OECD recommendations to Hungary: `Higher priority on poverty and income distribution issues, promote active employment policies eco-industries and environmental services.’ (page 162, Environmental Performance Reviews Hungary, 2008)

To be able to support and lobby that push with EU more in-depth research needed.

Further research within the EU:

• Collect data of artisan activity
• Research and compare the status of artisanship within its countries:
• Entrepreneurial policies affecting the increase or decrease of the trade
• Monthly fees
• Tax
• Administrative elements
• The economic well-being of the countries
• The historical and socio-cultural elements surrounding artisan products and artisans
• The internal and external factors of world economics and the changing face of fashion industry:
• The effects of fast fashion on artisans
• Supporting theories of sustainable fashion
• Conduct a consumer behaviour survey looking at:
• The need for artisan products: increase decrease, stagnating
• The amount of money in relation to the wages spent on fashion related products including home ware
• The amount of spending on these products if made by artisans
• The innovative opportunities and elements of artisan products that could potentially increase sales.
• Survey the level of education on locally made products.

Recommendations for the Hungarian Government:

• Looking into possible ways of differentiating between industrial actors and artisans under the current policy making and in terms of high entrepreneurial taxes and the bureaucracy burden
• Changing the policies to create an environment where innovative product, skill, material or market ideas (including artisan) could have 6 months to 1 year period of organically growing to be able to become competitive on the market and potentially contribute towards the country’s GDP on the long-term.

Recommendation for the writer:

· Build a website purchased under the domain name of: www.glocaltrinnovation.org and bring together enthusiasts advocating local design and development based on traditional craft.

o Start collecting data for an ‘artisan search engine’ of practising artisans by country, by craft skills and by product range within the EU to be able to advocate their enterprises for potential consumers.

· Start the ‘Local Lab’ advocating talks on the importance of preserving and transforming traditional craft in the context of local skills, materials and markets.

o First Glocal Trinnovation ‘Local Lab’ talk takes place in the Colchester Art Centre in February 2011

· Further develop the ‘The New Souvenir’ concept as a sample for the ‘Local Lab’ talks

Database of local artisans

To think about local production in a new refined way as a tool to interact with each other more as it could be learnt from the historical sole-traders in the local villages and towns by reconnecting the social aspect of local production with the changing face of economic growth and climate change. Small scale local production is environmentally safer and creates less carbon footprint. Climate change is already altering the way we produce crops, which is sooner or later will have negative impact on the way we perceive production at this time and age, but at the same time it could positively affect local artisans and boost their businesses. Thus it is down to the advocates of this age to raise the profile of ‘the getting ready stage’, when policies need to be put in place and based on the unique aesthetics of the surrounding countries by building out an artisan and consumer network within the EU.