Companionship craft within indigenous communities in Egypt and the Philippines, is enabling making practices to be an unwritten language of people and place. Indigenous knowledges within oral traditions, represent how situated practices become architecture for community development. Kelly and Fruebing both collaborate with indigineous craft communities in Egypt and the Philippines. Their work together is asking how craft languages support communities; and if craft companionship can be considered more widely within western-based systems such as within design practice and education as an architecture for community building?

This project will present two knowledge systems as architecture, with the possibility of visitors to contribute and shape the outcome:
Part One will present how written languages can be used to visualise situated community experiences.
Part Two will present a visual expression which uses the indigenous craft languages observed within Egypt and the Philippines.