This project aims to study and problematize the systematic marginalization and exploitation of the weavers in the regime of production and trade of Persian handmade carpets. Most weavers have been traditionally invisible and low-income agents, alienated from the craft they practice and its potential scope of growth. The critical argument is that if handmade carpets continue to be massively produced, at a relatively affordable price, it is due to the exploitation of their weavers. This begs the question of how practice-based research can offer a solution to overcome this condition. How can, through storytelling and transforming the carpet from a commodity to a medium of expression, the skill of weaving be re-evaluated from an artisanal work to a work of art? Furthermore, how does this evaluation offer the possibilities to connect to or exclude from certain discourses and communities of practice? The project aims to explore these questions through an experimental multimodal approach that situates them in the fields of critical public pedagogy, applied anthropology, anthropology of learning, design anthropology, and art-based practice. Through these perspectives, the project focuses on radical transformation in the weaver's condition from merely being an ‘instrument’ of weaving to being an author through facilitating a collaborative and ‘sharing’ process. The fieldwork will be conducted in the North Khorasan province of Iran.