ABSTRACT   
Integrating traditional craftsmanship with the writer’s personal heritage, this project aims to shift from a specialised skill-set approach to a more diversified one. It embraces global perspectives and fosters an open space for investigation while encouraging alternative study methods, blending intuitive exploration with therapeutic techniques, academic research, and personal insights. 

The project offers a comprehensive perspective that encompasses the individual, the educator, and the researcher. By combining familiar materials with unfamiliar practices, it aims to cultivate new skills and bridge the gap between the past, present, and future, proposing organisational structures, layouts, and material presentation techniques inspired by an open studio approach rooted in art therapy. It emphasises circularity and waste reduction by incorporating eco-friendly materials, repurposing existing products, and reinventing old ones. 

Ultimately, the project seeks to create conditions that nurture curiosity, experiences, and collaboration. It encourages decision-making based on reflection and creative journeys, setting our own guidelines rather than conforming to existing ones, and reconstructing ideas that may shape the future.