CK Foundation – Creative Knowledge Foundation

The Creative Knowledge Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) that reinforces the role of “Creative People“ – the living keepers of the Creative Knowledge of the world. Creative Knowledge (CK) is the “… contemporary evolution of traditional knowledge-based practices that have adjusted to the rules of nature and have learned how to work with it and not against it…”

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Mission

Farmer harvesting Sonoran White Wheat in Arizona

We are committed to protect Creative Knowledge Systems and help Creative People (family farmers, artisans, artists, and the like) to thrive in their original communities.

Mission

We are committed to protect Creative Knowledge Systems and help Creative People (family farmers, artisans, artists, and the like) to thrive in their original communities.

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Bakers of the Pan and Langa Consortium for the Breads of the Creative Cities project

Creative Knowledge
Platform

The Creative Knowledge Platform (CKP) describes the creative assets within each community and leverages its creative knowledge to implement a model of territorial promotion based on unique and sustainable techniques.

Knowledge Seekers (Students, Interns, Volunteers)

Knowledge Keepers
(Experts Artisans, heritage Food Producers, etc. )

Creative Knowledge Platform
(web and mobile)

Makers, Artisans
(Millers, Chefs,
Designers, artisans, etc. )

Visitors, Buyers, Retailers

Collect KK stories, media, and profiles

Share stories, practices, products and places

Store Knowledge
Keepers’ up-to-date multimedia contents

Expand networks, increase awareness, appreciation, and value of KK products

Expand customer
base and increase
interest in local
quality ingredients
and products

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Our Initiatives

CK Foundation is currently involved in the following projects:

BREADS OF THE CREATIVE CITIES

“… bread is a culturally significant staple food of a community, made with a local flour and water…”

Breads of the Creative Cities is an ongoing project that is supported by the Creative Knowledge Foundation and its partner – Tucson UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy.

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LE ROTTE DEL PANE

The project is a concrete and tangible example of cultural exchange, inclusion, sharing of traditional knowledge, sustainability to better preserve the environment and promote health, for which Italy is the spokesman in the world.

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HANDS AT WORK 2021

The project looks at the fascinating relationship between Carrara – the city of marble – and its talented artisans and artists through video-interviews and cultural itineraries that show beauty and heritage around the city.

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ARTISANAL
CHEESES

The project explores the history, science, culture and traditions of artisanal cheesemaking by telling the stories of the Knowledge Keepers (farmers, breeders, cheesemakers) and their heritage.

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le rotte del pane

The project is a concrete and tangible example of cultural exchange, inclusion, sharing of traditional knowledge, sustainability to better preserve the environment and promote health, for which Italy is the spokesman in the world.

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Hands at work 2021

The project looks at the fascinating relationship between Carrara – the city of marble – and its talented artisans and artists through video-interviews and cultural itineraries around the city.

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Artisanal
cheeses

The project explores the history, science, culture and traditions of artisanal cheesemaking by telling the stories of the Knowledge Keepers (farmers, breeders, cheesemakers) and their heritage.

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GET INVOLVED

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