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The Bauhaus Knew.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date June 2, 2026

The Bauhaus lasted fourteen years. Its founding idea — that craft and art, trade and design, hand and mind are not separate hierarchies but a single discipline — has lasted a century. CWA is building the institutional infrastructure that idea required and never received: the sector recognition, certification, registry, and workforce classification that makes skilled cultural production a formally governed, economically legible, professionally credentialled field in Australian law.

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Work with Material

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date June 1, 2026

In 1937, Anni Albers wrote that civilisation estranges us from materials. In 1944, she published an essay titled “We Need the Crafts for Their Contact with Materials.” She was writing about industrialisation. The Manual Cortical Load Hypothesis, the Hand-Brain Continuum, and five longitudinal cohort studies spanning seventy years have now assembled the peer-reviewed neuroscience that proves what she intuited from her loom. The estrangement is measurable. The deficit is real. And the infrastructure to address it is being built now.

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