Craft economies / edited by Susan Luckman and Nicola Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luckman, Susan, editor.

Thomas, Nicola, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artisans.

Decoration and ornament.

Handicraft industries.

Handicraft--Economic aspects.

Handicraft.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Crafting economies : contemporary cultural economies of the handmade

Susan Luckman and Nicola Thomas

Crafts community : physical and virtual

Xin Gu

Fast forward : design economies and practice in the near future

Marzia Mortati

Craft, collectivity and event-time

Katve-Kaisa Kontturi

'Buy a hat, save a life' : commodity activism, fair trade and crafting economies of change

Lisa A. Daily

Towards a politics of making : reframing material work and locating skill in the Anthropocene

Chris Gibson and Chantel Carr

Dichotomies in textile making : employing digital technology and retaining authenticity

Sonja Andrew and Kandy Diamond

People have the power : appropriate technology and the implications of labour-intensive making

Gabriele Oropallo

The ghost potter : vital forms and spectral marks of skilled craftsmen in contemporary tableware

Ezra Shales

Our future is in the making : trends in craft education, practice and policy

Julia Bennett

Establishing the crafting self in the contemporary creative economy

Susan Luckman and Jane Andrew

Handmaking your way out of poverty? : craftwork's potential and peril as a strategy for poverty alleviation in Rockford, Illinois

Jessica R. Barnes

Interrogating localism : what does 'made in Portland' really mean?

Steve Marotta and Charles Heying

Policy, locality and networks in a cultural and creative countryside : the case of Jingdezhen, China

Zhen Troy Chen

Design recycle meets the product introduction hall : craft, locality and agency in northern Japan

Sarah Teasley

Crafted places

places for craft : pop-up and the politics of the 'crafted' city

Ella Harris

Knitting and crochet as experiment : exploring social and material practices of computation and craft

Gail Kenning and Jo Law

Towards new modes of knowledge production : makerspaces and emerging maker practices

Angelina Russo

The post digital : contemporary making and the allure of the genuine

Keith Doyle, Hélène Day Fraser and Philip Robins

Crafting code : gender, coding and spatial hybridity in the events of PyLadies Dublin

Sophia Maalsen and Sung-Yueh Perng.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474259576

147425957X

9781474259552

1474259553

OCLC:

1019900774