Craft economies /
edited by Susan Luckman and Nicola Thomas.
- xiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Crafting economies : contemporary cultural economies of the handmade / Craft, making and the creative economy : -- Crafts community : physical and virtual / Fast forward : design economies and practice in the near future / Craft, collectivity and event-time / 'Buy a hat, save a life' : commodity activism, fair trade and crafting economies of change / Craft, the 'handmade' and contested commodification : -- Towards a politics of making : reframing material work and locating skill in the Anthropocene / Dichotomies in textile making : employing digital technology and retaining authenticity / People have the power : appropriate technology and the implications of labour-intensive making / The ghost potter : vital forms and spectral marks of skilled craftsmen in contemporary tableware / The work of craft : -- Our future is in the making : trends in craft education, practice and policy / Establishing the crafting self in the contemporary creative economy / Handmaking your way out of poverty? : craftwork's potential and peril as a strategy for poverty alleviation in Rockford, Illinois / Craft-driven place-making and transnational circuits of craft practice : -- Interrogating localism : what does 'made in Portland' really mean? / Policy, locality and networks in a cultural and creative countryside : the case of Jingdezhen, China / Design recycle meets the product introduction hall : craft, locality and agency in northern Japan / Crafted places/places for craft : pop-up and the politics of the 'crafted' city / Technology, innovation and craft : -- Knitting and crochet as experiment : exploring social and material practices of computation and craft / Towards new modes of knowledge production : makerspaces and emerging maker practices / The post digital : contemporary making and the allure of the genuine / Crafting code : gender, coding and spatial hybridity in the events of PyLadies Dublin / Susan Luckman and Nicola Thomas -- Xin Gu -- Marzia Mortati -- Katve-Kaisa Kontturi -- Lisa A. Daily -- Chris Gibson and Chantel Carr -- Sonja Andrew and Kandy Diamond -- Gabriele Oropallo -- Ezra Shales -- Julia Bennett -- Susan Luckman and Jane Andrew -- Jessica R. Barnes -- Steve Marotta and Charles Heying -- Zhen Troy Chen -- Sarah Teasley -- Ella Harris -- Gail Kenning and Jo Law -- Angelina Russo -- Keith Doyle, Hélène Day Fraser and Philip Robins -- Sophia Maalsen and Sung-Yueh Perng. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5.
"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."--Publisher's website.
1474259537 9781474259538
Handicraft industries. Handicraft--Economic aspects Decoration and ornament. Handicraft. Artisans.