
day/do (here/there)
Cross-Cultural Craft and Design Exchange
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
Published on 31. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-1-956313-32-1 (ISBN)
Description
"¿ây/¿ó (here/there) explores how transnational collaboration in the Asia-Pacific can sustain craft knowledge, cultural heritage, and livelihoods in a time of ecological and social precarity. Bringing together critical scholarship and creative practice, the book examines cross-cultural exchange as both a possibility and a problem: a space for reciprocal learning and innovation, but also one that can reproduce colonial hierarchies of cultural value.
Centered on four in-depth case studies of collaboration between Australian and Vietnamese makers and designers, the book traces innovative practices across fashion and textiles, ceramics, and furniture-making. These projects emerged in response to the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and foreground adaptation, recovery, and sustainability in its cultural, social, economic, and environmental dimensions. By situating contemporary Vietnamese craft and design at the heart of the analysis, the book challenges Western-centric discourses that privilege "fine art" over craft and signals toward decolonial approaches to making and knowledge exchange.
Attentive to mobility, tradition, and longstanding ecological practices, ¿ây/¿ó (here/there) offers new ways of imagining craft, creativity, and sustainability in an interconnected world-speaking to scholars, practitioners, and anyone interested in intercultural creative futures."
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Woodbridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-956313-32-1 (9781956313321)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Grace McQuilten, Rimi Khan, Becky Lu, Nguyen Ngoc Thao, Tammy Wong Hulbert
Content
"List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 1.
Introduction-¿ây/¿ó (here/there):
Cross-Cultural Craft and Design Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2.
Experiments in Sustainability: Vietnamese Craft and Design
for Contemporary Fashion Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Industry Perspective.
Dr. Nguy¿n Th¿ Thu Hà, Director, VICAS Art Studio,
Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 3.
Designing Cultural Values: Reviving Craft Traditions
Through Contemporary Design and Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chapter 4.
Reflecting on Cross-Cultural Exchange
as a Pathway to Sustainable Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Conclusion and Future Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117"