This book focusses on the role of craft as a continuing cultural
practice and the revival of disappearing skills in contemporary society.
It includes twenty-five essays by highly regarded artisans, academics,
technologists, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, curators, and researchers
from many countries representing a wide range of global craft traditions
and innovations.
The authors explain their professional practices and creative pathways
with knowledge, experience, and passion. They offer insightful analyses
of their traditions within their culture and in the marketplace,
alongside the evolution of technology as it adapts to support
experimentation and business strategies. They write about teaching and
research informing their practice; and they explain the importance of
their tools and materials in function and form of the objects they make.
The essays reveal a poignant expression of their successes,
disappointments, and opportunities.
This book offers case studies of how artisans have harnessed the
traditions of the past alongside the latest design technologies. The
authors reveal how global craft is not only a vehicle for
self-expression and creativity, but also for being deeply relevant to
the world of work, community and environmental sustainability. The book
makes the vital link between skills, knowledge, education, and
employment, and fills a much-needed niche in Technical, Vocational
Education and Training TVET.