Sol Marinucci is a textile designer, cultural manager, independent researcher, curator, consultant and co-founder of League of Artisans. She promotes and coordinates collaborative practices and exchanges between craft and design practitioners. With a BA in Textile Design and a Masters in Anthropology of Art, she has strong roots in Latin America where she has worked with artisan communities for over 20 years. For the British Council ’s global program on Crafting Futures, she worked leading the program across Argentina, Bolivia and South Asia. The resultant publication- Artisans' Voices: Dialogues for Sustainable Practices was published in cooperation with British Council, Fashion Revolution, Redit, and Craft Revival Trust.
Her expertise lies in research, ethical collaborative practices between artisans and in designers, in building visual identities, revitalising ancestral craft techniques for new generations and ensuring collaborative practices. For more than a decade (2006-2019) she was part of the organisation of the largest Design Festival in Latin America, TRImarchi, as curator and Head of International Relations. Motivated by her experience in fieldwork with indigenous peoples as co-founder of HombreLobo. Illaturas, is a recent project, an itinerant artistic project with an intercultural approach together with Flor de Altea, an artisan group from Jujuy. It is based on the miniatures as seeds that foster the growth of everything that is desired.
Her personal and professional quest encompasses an endless interest in traditions, cultural heritage, collective imaginaries, the value of the interdisciplinary and the territorial.
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