co/rizom - tools to empower artisans        At a time when interest in crafts is exploding but traditional making skills are vanishing, the co/rizom methodology will use design principles and product development methods, as well as simple but effective branding and marketing strategies, to help artisans form small social enterprises and become suppliers to retailers. To develop this process, they have built a team of experts, created a network of advisors and ensure that the artisans they work with are involved every step of the way as the co-designers of the process. They believe that traditional crafts can only survive if artisans are empowered and supported and that the co/rizom development tool will help create thriving, resilient and connected communities that can enact fair employment practices, improve the quality of their products and ensure the survival of context-specific skills and historic ways of making that might otherwise be lost forever. co/rizom was founded by Alina Serban and Nadja Zerunian the creative mind and the social business developer Andrei Georgescu. Team members are Gabor Nagy and Lisa Pock. www.corizom.org co/rizom's methodology creation programme is funded by The ERSTE Foundation