Ethics, Regulation & the Gemstone Trade with Rudolf's Gems and Tereza Østbø Kuldove

Ethics, Regulation & the Gemstone Trade

Join Rudolf Kangwa, Zambian lapidary and co-founder of Rudolf's Gems (alongside partner Bwalya Bwalya Kangwa), in conversation with Dr. Tereza Østbø Kuldova, research professor at OsloMet's Work Research Institute.

This episode was recorded during Residency 28, Your Pleasure, Our Pain, which brought together voices from around the world to explore questions of luxury and ethics.

They discuss:

• How anti-corruption regulations have evolved since the Cold War
• The "compliance industrial complex" and its impact on small businesses
• Why certification schemes often advantage Western corporations over local producers
• The disconnect between formal procedures and real-world change
• How regulatory frameworks create new forms of surveillance capitalism

Residency 28, Your Pleasure, Our Pain, invited a diverse group of artists, artisans, designers and researchers to collectively explore the implications of the luxury industry through the loupe of the lapidary. It is developed by Goethe-Institut Norwegen and Institut français de Norvège, LuCAC and Rudolf Kangwa.

The residents of R28 were:

Victoria Duffee Shaun Borstrock Bwalya Bwalya Kangwa Rudolf Kangwa Nanna Melland Melissa Schwarz Erin Sexton Béatrice Sylvie