Craft Economies
Published on 22. February 2018
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-4742-5953-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Susan Luckman and Nicola Thomas have drawn deeply and carefully from the world's well of the contemporary craft economy. Their pluralistic, international approach makes for a complex and counterpointed book of essays. Craft emerges from statistics as a still humanistic practice: hovering with creative intelligence in the body politic of culture and the economy. * Simon Olding, Director of the Craft Study Centre at the University for the Creative Arts, UK * This collection offers a comprehensive overview of the craft economy as a viable force in opposition to existing systems of production through the humanization of work and commerce. It is critical to examine concepts such as disruptive collaboration, commodity activism and individualized consumption to ensure that highly networked societies of makers will continue to successfully position themselves within a consumer base no longer satisfied with the stuff of mass production. * Heidi Schwegler, Chair of the MFA in Applied Craft and Design at Oregon College of Art and Craft, USA * A rich collection of essays that reveal cultural economies of craft to be subtle, complex and pervasive - craft is a social and material practice that drives the most cutting-edge technology, innovation and design, yet also brings life to people and places, makes human relations, and gives form to imagined futures and worlds. This book shows us that the 'tactile turn' not only has global resonance but many diverse expressions - and is a perfect introduction to all those who care about craft, material-making, and the likely prospects for sustainable economies of tomorrow. * Mark Banks, Director of the CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester, UK * A collection of essays taking a scholarly look at contemporary craft production around the world, placing professional and amateur practice within the broader creative economy. Look out for contributions by Ezra Shales and the Craft Council's head of research and policy Julia Bennett. * UK Craft Council / Crafts magazine *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
30 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-5953-8 (9781474259538)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Susan Luckman | Nicola Thomas
Craft Economies
E-Book
02/2018
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€30.99
Available for download
Persons
Susan Luckman is Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia, Australia.
Nicola Thomas is Associate Professor in Cultural Historical Geography at the University of Exeter, UK.
Nicola Thomas is Associate Professor in Cultural Historical Geography at the University of Exeter, UK.
Content
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, Helene 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
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, Helene 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