Azadeh Pashootanizadeh

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Azadeh Pashootanizadeh is interested in Persian traditional arts and focuses on Persian handwoven. Her project titled DocZow was supported by the European Union's Horizon Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowship.

This project tries to investigate the intergenerational transmission of silk weaving through the intangible cultural heritage of Zoroastrian women by providing an innovative interdisciplinary approach. Different aspects of Zoroastrian women’s silk weaving as an intangible cultural heritage are related to the goals and projects of UNESCO.

Her project is in line with the UNESCO file for the world registration of Iran’s silk weaving in 2022 and also completes the information related to the intangible cultural heritage of silk in the UNESCO project titled “Silk Roads Heritage Corridors in Afghanistan, Central Asia and Iran-International Dimension of the European Year of Cultural Heritage”. Besides that, it identifies the ways of intergenerational transmission of silk weaving to empower the younger generation and thereby provides new solutions to achieve UNESCO’s goals in the field of culture and education for Sustainable Development.  The publication of the results of this project in order to focus on the methods of teaching silk weaving to girls through intergenerational transfer in a developing country (Iran) can solve the important concern of UNESCO about teaching girls in countries like Iran that are deprived of modern technology.