During Fall/ Winter months, the coordination team led a series of workshops for each of the 4 markets we are working with. During each of these events, project stakeholders (interested vendors from each markets), took part in day long informational and participatory dialogue about the importance of food preservations and techniques that can begin to incorporate.

Workshop 1:

The first workshop for each market focused on food security, community composting, the importance to reduce waste and introduced how clay can be used as a material to help preserve produce.

Workshop 2:

The second workshop for each market focused on human centred design where project coordinators introduced how stakeholders can work collectively to tackle the issue of food preservation.

Workshop 3:

The third workshop was a hands-on event where stakeholders were invited to Timret Lehiwot, where they learned how to make clay pots. After the first two workshops that concentrated on discussions, the clay-making event really opened up the dialogue where participants understood in a more direct way about how clay can be incorporated that also gave a lot of new ideas to project coordinators.

Workshop 4 / Exhibition:

The final event for each market was an exhibition of the Gulit Project in the market itself. This day-long event allowed market vendors and the general public to learn about the project, the different prototypes and the importance of food preservation.