This project was created from the desire to (re)activate community ties between the local older people and the merchants in Coimbra’s historical city centre, and between those merchants and the academic community and those who visit the city. The goal was to help reduce the loneliness and social isolation of older people and promote the inclusion of unemployed women over the age of 55, by harnessing their life experience and expertise in the handicrafts usually associated with women.

Project supported under the 1^st edition of the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative, promoted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation.