Well, I can`t express how wonderful it is to wake up and not having to proceed to the kitchen with my laptop to have a hot date with Monsieur Thesis any more. Yesterday our 3 year relationship finally ended. It has stirred up many memories and brought shining bright light to the end of the tunnel.
The printer had just enough ink to print the last pages. Diana converted the document into pdf and wrote it out on a CD for me and by 9am I was on the Central line to hand in. Thank God, it wasn’t as packed as it is normally and there was nobody queuing at Reprographics either. I was the only one and it made me really happy that there was no last minute stress. I skipped around a bit while I was waiting for the thermal binding to cool down and told the always-smiling gentleman with the glasses that it was my last hand-in and thanked for his help in the past 6 years. He is always so patient and showed me and all the other students every single time how to use the ring binder before. By 10.20am I got my receipt from the Registry Office and skipped along to meet Marta for a coffee. I haven’t been out for a coffee since I came back to England on 30th September. I simply couldn’t afford it and still can’t, but I decided to treat myself after hand-in. I had my favourite Pret All-day-Breakfast which I had walking over to our meeting and an eggnog medium decaf latte at Starbucks. It was so good to see Marta. She called me the day before and told me I should think about doing a Phd. I said never, she said never say never. Marta is in her second year of Phd and it was my humble person who talked her into it. Well, it was my humble person, who talked her into MA on the first place. We did our BA together, she did an amazing project on computer technology and fashion, which she carries on since then and getting ahead of things that are currently possible and available in fashion revolutionising processes with her research. I looked at local development on BA and carried on with the MA and as Marta says there is a lot of interest in my research area as well for improvement. So, after saying never and being promoted never say never, I decided to look into it and if I could get a full grant covering research I would love to carry on with my studies and do a phd in the next couple of years. This was my overall recommendation at the end of the thesis:
6.2 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” (Environmental Performance Reviews Hungary, 2008). To be able to lobby for the lowering of high entrepreneurial fees and the bureaucracy burden in Hungary more in-depth research suggested:
Recommendations for the EU:
- Collecting data of artisan activity
- Researching and comparing 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
- Conducting 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.
- Surveying 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
We had a mini Love Shack dinner last night, Diana, Stephen and myself eating up all the leftover from the day before, which resulted in masses amount of food on our plate from chilli con carne to home-made veggie burgers. It was a real feast! Diana asked me what my plan was and I suddenly remembered I always wanted to translate my novel I wrote 15 years ago in Hungary, which is based on changes in governments and its effect on the state and the individual. It is a utopia called “Perfectly Imperfect World”, which makes me laugh and cry at the same time, with lots of imagination. From tomorrow am going to do that. So, I just answered that I wanted to translate my novel I wrote 15 years ago. There was a silence and after she said she wished she could drop something like that so casually over the dinner table. I know she has a lot of things like that to drop. I remember how astonished I was when she told us over dinner she lived in Cambodia with her family for 3 years when she was around 10. We all have a lot in us to astonish people with, I believe we are just not fully aware of it, because it is so casual for us.
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