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 customization, on-demand production, and the possibilities of 3D printing and digital manufacturing.
This important volume situates craft within the larger creative economy, exploring practices of making and the relationship between craft and digital design.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350353404
Author Dr Susan Luckman
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
This important volume situates craft within the larger creative economy, exploring practices of making and the relationship between craft and digital design.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350353404
Author Dr Susan Luckman
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
