UnknownLuckman, Susan
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (London, 2018) (eng) English9781474259576Unknown1st ed.HANDICRAFT; Includes bibliographical references; 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.
Physical dimension
1 online resource (xiv, 232 p.) :Unknownill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Front matter
1. Crafting economies: Contemporary cultural economies of the handmade
1. Craft, making and the creative economy
2. Craft, the ‘handmade’ and contested commodification
3. The work of craft
4. Craft-driven place-making and transnational circuits of craft practice
5. Technology, innovation and craft