Craft Economies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Luckman, Susan; Thomas, Nicola

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur and professional making within a wider creative economy. Contributors address a diverse range of practices, sites and forms of making in a wide range of regional and national contexts, from floristry to ceramics and from crochet to coding. The volume considers the role of digital practices of making and the impact of the maker's movement as part of larger trends around customisation, on-demand production, and the possibilities of 3D printing and digital manufacturing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474259552
• Artikelnr.: 50919472

Autorenporträt

Susan Luckman is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries and Director of the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre at the University of South Australia. Her work is concerned with the intersections of creativity, place, making and technology. Nicola Thomas is Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research addresses craft geographies and situating contemporary and 20th-century craft practice within the broader creative economy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Crafting Economies: Contemporary Cultural Economies of the Handmade,
Susan Luckman (University of South Australia) and Nicola Thomas (
University of Exeter, UK)
Part One: Craft, Making and the Creative Economy
2. Crafts Community: Physical and Virtual, Xin Gu (Monash University,
Australia)
3. Fast Forward: Design Economies and Practice in the Near Future, Marzia
Mortati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
4. Craft, Collectivity and Event-time, Katve-Kaisa Kontturi (University of
Turku, Finland)
5. "Buy a Hat, Save a Life": Commodity Activism, Fair Trade, and Crafting
Economies of Change, Lisa A. Daily (NYU Gallatin, USA)
Part Two: Craft, the 'Handmade' and Contested Commodification
6. Towards a Politics of Making: Re-framing Material Work and Locating
Skill in the Anthropocene, Chris Gibson and Chantel Carr (University of
Wollongong, Australia)
7. Dichotomies in Textile Making: Employing Digital Technology and
Retaining Authenticity, Sonja Andrew (University of Leeds, UK) and Kandy
Diamond (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
8. People Have the Power?: Appropriate Technology and the Implications of
Design for Labour-intensive Making, Gabriele Oropallo (London Metropolitan
University, UK)
9. The Ghost Potter: Vital Forms and Spectral Marks of Skilled Craftsmen in
Contemporary Tableware, Ezra Shales (Massachusetts College of Art and
Design, USA)
Part Three: The Work of Craft
10. Our Future is in the Making: Trends in Craft Education, Practice and
Policy, Julia Bennett (Crafts Council, UK)
11. Establishing the Crafting Self in the Contemporary Creative Economy,
Susan Luckman and Jane Andrew (University of South Australia)
12. Handmaking your Way out of Poverty?: Craftwork's Potential and Peril as
a Strategy for Poverty Alleviation in Rockford, Illinois, Jessica Barnes
(Northern Arizona University, USA)
Part Four: Craft-driven Place-making and Transnational Circuits of Craft
Practice
13. Interrogating Localism: What Does "Made in Portland" Really Mean?
Stephen Marotta and Charles Heying (Portland State University, USA)
14. Policy, Locality and Networks in a Cultural and Creative Countryside:
The Case of Jingdezhen, China, Troy Zhen Chen (University of the Arts
London, UK)
15. Design Recycle Meets the Product Introduction Hall: Craft, Locality and
Agency in Northern Japan, Sarah Teasley (RMIT University, Australia)
16. Crafted Places/Places for Craft: Pop-up and the Politics of the
"Crafted" City, Ella Harris (Birkbeck University of London, UK)
Part Five: Technology, Innovation and Craft
17. Knitting and Crochet as Experiment: Exploring Social and Material
Practices of Computation and Craft, Gail Kenning (University of Technology
Sydney, Australia) and Jo Law (University of Wollongong, Australia)
18. Towards New Modes of Knowledge Production: Makerspaces and Emerging
Maker Practices, Angelina Russo (Global Centre for Modern Ageing,
Australia)
19. The Post-digital: Contemporary Making and the Allure of the Genuine,
Keith Doyle, Hélène Day Fraser and Philip Robins (Emily Carr University of
Art + Design)
20. Crafting Code: Gender, Coding and Spatial Hybridity in the Events of
PyLadies Dublin, Sophia Maalsen (University of Sydney, Australia) and
Sung-Yueh Perng (Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland)
References
Index