charKOL Cottage Studios
charKOL Cottage Studios
We have conceptualised a workspace where artists, writers, poets, musicians, designers and makers create their own studios and learn about micro-entrepreneurism, hands on, with the support of Bilberries Blue Sustainability Stewards.
The creation of products and services can be listed on charKOL.myshopify.com.
Inspiring and deep conversations can be woven into the making and selling. The idea is that we create dialogues between makers and consumers to the point where, the deep listening in the ecosystem becomes a choir of harmony.
Many things are birthed out of something something inarticulable, some call it inspiration. charKOL Cottage Studios is birthed out of many, many, many, many years of observation.
Brewing and Waiting
The birthing itself seems like chance, but actually, it has been brewing and waiting for the right moment to sprout from this deep ground of conviction and continuous iterations of prototypes or blueprint revisions.
What we witness as the birthing is actually simply the next logical step, of action.
Make It Visible & Doable
The simplicity is that it gets birthed when we write it down. By writing it down, we are saying, our eye is on it. So that others can see it too: we make it visible.
Marketplaces of Possibilities
E-commerce, omni channel supply chain, digitalisation, geolocation making and production, dropshipping, last mile fulfilment. These are tools of the new marketplaces of possibilities. Yet, we keep saying: cannot this, cannot that. I don’t know what we are waiting for.
Personal Atelier
Create a studio. Take your own Personal Atelier, and look at the needs of the world, and map your pathway from your own ability of making into the outreached hands of those who are requiring new designs, new solutions, new products, new goods & services, new something something.
Create Your Own Marketplace
Make your own livelihood count, and make it tangible and make it visible. Create your own marketplace. It doesn’t have to be big. It just needs to be real and doable, and one that sustainably covers the living and business costs of the location of your work and living.
Map Your Story with Your Service
What is your story, what is your offering? What would you like to do? What is it that you love to make? Who would you like to serve? Who and in which areas do you care so passionately about that you can’t sleep at night thinking, and thinking, and thinking about it and wondering and wondering – what if you did – make it?
What do you need to get and keep going?
What do you need? What resources do you need? What motivation, thinking, knowledge, know-how, experience, skills do you need? How are you to look for these? How are you to formulate your pathway? How are you to self-teach? How are you to learn from others, find your tribe?
Building Your Pathways of Dignity
What is your ecosystem of bringing your making to those whom you serve? How do you build this? How do you engage those whom you serve? How do you hear them? How do you listen deep to the needs, affordability, consumption conveniences?
Make and Fulfil the Needs
Design something sensible that you can put through the distribution ecosystem that meets the needs of whom you serve. Design it, make it, distribute it. Make it happen.
And enjoy and celebrate the journey. Adapt as things and needs change. Sometimes you have to persuade the adoption of your offering.
Persuade it.
With transparency, accountability, care and dignity. Deliver it well. Add some sprinkle of good cheer and super satisfaction to the journey.