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Public Group active 14 hours, 24 minutes agoThis is a group for those engaged in contemporary and modern craft. This is a good place to:
- post project ideas, including calls for expressions of interest
- share responses to recent exhibitions
- discuss new publications in craft theory
- respond to articles in the journal
- air concerns about the institutional politics affecting craft
(The group image is Yoshihiro Suda ‘Weeds’ from the exhibition Out of the Ordinary)
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Main Table 6 months, 1 week agoI am trying to set up a design school for traditional weavers in a village in Rajasthan. Any ideas?
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Convenor started the forum topic Code as Craft call for papers in the group
Main Table: 8 months agoThis seems a very interesting attempt to tie craft to the information age – code as artifact. This is an open call for papers to present at the annual College Art Association conference in Los Angeles in 2012, at a panel sponsored by the New Media Caucus. PANEL TITLE Code as craft: Programming in the [...]
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Convenor posted on the forum topic Craft and sustainability in the group
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Convenor posted an update in the group
Main Table: 8 months, 2 weeks agoTchotchkes in the White Cube: Exhibiting Craft and Design in the 20th century
Conventional art institutions such as museums and galleries have had problematic relationships with three-dimensional utilitarian objects since their inception. As several scholars, including Ruth Phillips and James Clifford, have argued, conventional displays deprive…[Read more]
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Convenor posted on the forum topic Craft Education in the group
Main Table: 9 months, 2 weeks agoThanks for sharing this Janet. I’d be interested to know if there’s any research being conducted into the effectiveness of video teaching in craft. It’s counter-intuitive, but if it is successful in particular contexts, then it might be useful other areas too, like craft exchange.
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My ex Dr Nicola Wood did her PhD looking at using digital media for transmitting craft knowledge. PhD is here http://www.archive.org/download/TransmittingCraftKnowledgeDesigningInteractiveMediaToSupportTacit_590/2006_Wood_thesis.pdf but if you want the one paragraph summary of how well video works for transmitting craft skills and the role it can…[Read more]
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Dr Jane Norris posted on the forum topic Craft Education in the group
Main Table: 9 months, 2 weeks agoInteresting to read your post Janet, I am considering producing some videos for our 3D Design BA that give some basic introductions to different areas on the course such as glass and ceramics. Were your videos purely technique based or did they also introduce the context of the projects?
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Janet DeBoos posted on the forum topic Craft Education in the group
Main Table: 9 months, 2 weeks agojust noticed this post- we ran a distance education undergraduate diploma for 12 years out of the ceramics Workshop at the Australian National University. a couple of observations that may be of interest… 1. the course was a blended delivery, an intensive on campus workshop plus continued work on projects back in home studios- supported [...]
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Convenor started the forum topic Craft and sustainability in the group
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‘Sustainability’ certainly seems the word of the 21st century. But it is not unprecedented. As the papers in the latest issue of Craft & Design Enquiry show, there are strong connections with the response to industrialisation by Arts & Crafts Movement in 19th century England. Reviewing this history may provide an important guide to the future. …[Read more] -
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LizAnne Jensen posted on the forum topic When sculptors craft in the group
Main Table: 10 months agoI just posted a few photos of our Zeus weathervane to illustrate the point made in my post above.
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LizAnne Jensen posted on the forum topic When sculptors craft in the group
Main Table: 10 months agoI suppose we are craft sculptors. We make handcrafted copper weather vanes using techniques that date back to Hellenistic Greek times. Our work is intentionally not three-dimensional for functionality’s sake; weathervane sculpture pieces need to turn in the wind. The style of sculpture we do is called swell bodied, rather than full bodied, so they [...]
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Convenor started the forum topic Craft Education in the group
Main Table: 10 months agoThere is a trend towards online teaching. Can can a skills-based practice like craft be taught in a remote environment? Are there ways of combining traditional craft skill with mediated technologies?
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Convenor started the forum topic Books for review in the group
Main Table: 10 months, 2 weeks agoThe Journal of Modern Craft is looking for reviewers of recent craft publications. Please contact our book reviewer J.McBrinn (at) ulster.ac.uk for more information
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Convenor started the forum topic GEOGRAPHIES OF CRAFT AND CRAFTING in the group
Main Table: 10 months, 2 weeks agoAAG Call for Papers: GEOGRAPHIES OF CRAFT AND CRAFTING Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 24-28 February 2012 New York, NY Organisers: Doreen Jakob (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Hayden Lorimer and Kendra Strauss (University of Glasgow) and Nicola Thomas (University of Exeter) Sponsored by the AAG Cultural Geography…[Read more]
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There’s certainly plenty of models around, like Kala Raksha and Anohki. Would you be the core idea?