Listen
Met with the charity partner to understand the needs of women artisans, the limits of existing sales channels, and the realities of flexible work.
Social impact project / 2024
Tide
Project.
Designing a path from handcraft to flexible income—through creativity, technology, and collective care.
- Role
- Youth project participant · Report author
- Cycle
- Launched July 7, 2024 · Planned one-year programme
- Focus
- Social design · AIGC · Product development · Charity outreach
01 / The purpose
Making skilled work visible.
The Tide Project responds to a gap faced by women who cannot take part in full-time employment—including women with disabilities, rural mothers, single mothers, caregivers, and women in low-income households.
Many already possess valuable crochet and handcraft skills, yet lack access to contemporary product design, stable orders, and reliable sales channels. The project brought youth participants, specialist mentors, a charity partner, and artisan-production teams together to help carry handmade work through the final mile from skill to market.
02 / Leah’s contribution
Art in service
of others.
As a participating youth creator, I contributed within an interdisciplinary team exploring how art, product thinking, and emerging technology could support women artisans. The report documents a collaborative process rather than assigning every task to individual names; the work below therefore reflects the team context in which I participated.
- Researched the social and market barriers separating skilled handcraft from sustainable income.
- Participated in creative ideation and iterative product-design development.
- Explored AIGC and digital tools as part of the design and promotional process.
- Helped connect creative production with outreach, charity sales, and public awareness.
- Wrote the original Chinese project report, documenting the team’s process, impact framework, outcomes, and future plan.
03 / The process
From listening
to making.
Learn
Joined training in art, market economics, AIGC, programming, product development, and social-impact planning.
Design
Developed and refined contemporary crochet-product concepts, including a twelve-zodiac doll series shaped for a wider market.
Connect
Supported a path from design to production through digital promotion, school outreach, charity auctions, and market development.
04 / What emerged
A model for
shared impact.
Thirteen online working sessions and one in-person connection with the charity partner.
A twelve-zodiac crochet-doll direction developed through several rounds of design refinement.
The wider population of women whom the report identifies as potentially needing flexible employment support—not a claim of people already reached.
A contribution aligned with poverty reduction, gender equality, decent work, and inclusive economic growth.
05 / Project documentation
Documentation kept private.
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