Design lecture: Adding value to Sri Lankan crafts
View(s):‘Design – the value addition to Sri Lankan crafts’, a lecture by Tilak Samarawickreme will be held on December 12 at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies, Horton Place, Colombo, from 5- 6 p.m.
Tilak Samara-wickrema
Tilak Samarawickrema is an architect with a multifaceted design background. His major contribution to the arts and crafts of Sri Lanka was in the 1980′s through a programme he executed as a consultant to the National Design Centre, working with over a hundred selected craftsmen and craftswomen reviving a waning indigenous crafts tradition and modernising Sri Lankan crafts to cater to contemporary markets.
His work has been extensively cited in international architecture and design magazines – Domus, Abitare, Design Diffusion News and others. From his architectural and design studio in Colombo he continues to work with hand woven tapestries, exhibiting and marketing them internationally.