03 • Doron Shaltiel, Quazi Design • Challenging the perception of waste through craft

// Available from 11 August 2017 Quazi Design is a social enterprise based in Swaziland engaging craft to transform magazine paper waste into beautiful jewelry and home decor items. In our conversation with Founder Doron Shaltiel, we learn how Quazi Design was built upon utilising the waste from the local commercial magazine industry and through…

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Crafting the loop: exploring the role of craft in recycling, reclaiming and renewing

Craft is a creative practice which constantly engages with resourceful, economic and human-centred approaches. With its supplemental nature, craft naturally finds purpose alongside larger scale industries by making use of waste and under-utilised materials to create something new, useful and meaningful. In this insight series we will take a closer look at how some of…

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Quazi Design

Quazi Design was founded in 2009 in a mission to create much needed employment in Swaziland, Southern Africa. Their workshop is situated in Sidwashini, the industrial area of Mbabane, Swaziland’s capital. Quazi Design started with the concept of a simple rolled paper bead earring displayed on a card, employing one artisan, believing in the potential to…

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