Fieldwork & Stories
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Why We’re Sharing Fieldwork & Stories
Fieldwork & Stories
We started Fieldwork & Stories because culture often gets flattened the moment it travels. A practice, an object, a symbol, a space—once it moves across communities, languages, or borders, it can quickly turn into a neat caption: a label, a price, a trend, a “meaning.” But real cultural life is rarely neat. It lives in people’s routines, relationships, skills, compromises, and quiet decisions about what to keep, what to change, and what to pass on.
This column stays close to that living layer. We share field notes from real places and real encounters—workshops, homes, community gatherings, studios, markets, classrooms—because ordinary details carry the weight of history. Here you’ll find short observations, the life stories of objects (materials, making, use, movement), and voices from artists, makers, and community members, kept as close to their tone as possible.
Fieldwork & Stories is a public record of attention: a place to slow down, listen carefully, and keep meaning connected to lived experience.
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