PEOPLE & PROCESS
Traditional Crafts & Makers.
The region's most famous products were born in workshops, not laboratories: a cutler's bench in a Schwyz village, watchmakers' attics lit by Jura daylight. What makes these stories worth studying is that craft and industry did not replace each other here — they learned to coexist, and the objects that resulted became global symbols.
This topic is about making traditions that survived by evolving: how a knife becomes an icon, and how a whole city can be built around the measurement of time.
- Watchmaking: the towns, schools, museums and living industry
- Cutlery and multifunctional tool design
- Craft knowledge as intangible cultural heritage
- How hand skills scale without disappearing
