PROD Programme

PROD
Welcome to the Montebello Design Centre PROD Programme
The PROD [Product Design, Research and Opportunity Development) Programme
is an outreach project run as part of Montebello Design Centre's mandate to promote Craft and Design. It is run as a joint venture between Montebello design Centre and Handmade Change

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Our Aims:

We work in the Hand Craft Sector in Africa to promote Design, Art and Craft

We work to:
  • Preserve Fragile Cultures,
  • create Heritage awareness,
  • Conserve natural resources,
  • Supplement livelihoods form craft,
  • Preserve traditional skills, crafts and technologies.
  • sustainable products on a viable business model.

We achieve this by finding the most Appropriate Technologies and approach to all these for every intervention.

"...appropriate technology is often something described as using the simplest level of technology

that can effectively achieve the intended purpose in a particular location..."

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