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Craft has long been the subject of passionate debates which today require renewed critical and theoretical insight, which the sole term “craft” sometimes restricts. Political, ecological, entrepreneurial, humanitarian, heritage, technological or educational, the forms of craft have, in recent years, expanded and been reinvented, but they have also become more complex.
Everyone – from craftivists to makers, from creators of folk craft to craft artists, from designers to creators of luxury houses – is taking over this field, disrupting tradition and its codes which are often inherited from the past. These different approaches are part of a now-international context, and lead to the addressing of vast questions that this work articulates around four themes: the AFFINITIES theme addresses the collaborative spirit and the porosity between the different fields of creation and craft; CULTURES relates to the values carried by artisans beyond the technicality of their expertise; EDUCATION looks at innovative educational experiences that renew the transmission of knowledge and gestures; ECONOMIES addresses the wide variety of business models in this sector today.
Fabien Petiot and Chloé Braunstein-Kriegel decompartmentalize the fields of creation in their relationship to craftsmanship, offering the reader the possibility of discovering new modes of thought coming from the United States, China, France, Italy, Brazil, South Africa or even Thailand... They defend a transdisciplinary craft, a real practical melting pot from which to draw technical, methodological and intellectual resources. This work testifies to the relevance and plurality of craft in today's world.
This work received support from the Michelangelo Foundation for Craftsmanship.
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