Thematic Sessions
Each edition of the Making Futures journal brings together a spectrum of peer-reviewed and selected speaker responses to the IV edition ‘Making Futures: Return of the Maker…’ headline theme.
These contributions are organised through the three Research Workshops, the Digital Crafting Panel, and six Thematic Sessions to which they correspond as downloadable PDF papers with authors appearing in alphabetical order.
1. Local-global translations and dialogues...
This session will examine the tensions and flows expressed in craft making and craft artifacts in the supposedly ‘post-colonial’ contexts of contemporary global capitalism and its possible futures.
Annels, Ross
Memory keepers, map makers, and material thinkers: the sustained offerings of craft objects
Chotirantanapinun, Treechada
The emergence and existence of sustainable craft practices: Case studies from Indonesia and Thailand
Fahey, Richard
“Colonial Shino”: A case study of cultural importation translation & transaction
Hark, Mary
Developing a Hand Papermaking Cottage Industry in the Greater Ashanti Region of Ghana: A convergence of craft, art, and environmental conservation
Ionascu, Adriana
Urban Globalism versus Rural Artisans: Sustainable Practices of Making
Kingsley, Susan
Ethical Metalsmiths: Jewellers for Social and Environmental Responsibility
Ladd, Katherine
“My Skill is Exhausted”: issues of authenticity and sustainability in the revival of West African strip weaving
Na, Yuri
‘Well-Being’ beyond ‘Well-Made’
Rhodes, Sarah
Designing for Social Change: How Can Collaborations Between Western Designers and African Grassroots Crafts Projects be Most Successful?
Scott, Kirsten
Straw Into Gold: A Role for Craft in Fashion and Development
Sisman, Osman
Fate of Turkish Traditional Crafts: A Case of Economic, Legal and Political Marginalisation
2. Socio-technological and material discourses
This session will examine the relationship of craft practices to ‘post-industrial’ modes of design, making, marketing and consumption along with emerging reactions to mass production, de-skilling and consumption, (i.e., in ‘slow design’, the cult of the ‘imperfect' and 'amateurism').
Bunnell, Katie
Developments in post industrial manufacturing systems and the implications for craft and sustainability
Collet, Carole
Suicidal Textiles: A Nobel Textiles Project
Da Costa, Carlos
Crafting a tooling idea into a new domestic landscape re.visited
Hankey, Ian
A new type of glass furnace. A sustainable future for a threatened creative industry
Howes, Emily
Make Your Own Ark: Indie craft's sustainable imperative
McDonald, Andy
BeastiesLAB: A Case Study on the Co-Creation of Digitally Printed Textile Products
Niedderer, Kristina
Sustainability of the Crafts as a Discipline?
Pitman, Lois
Designer/Makers are Key to Sustainable Textile Development
Shercliff, Emma
A Poetics of Waste: evaluating time and effort spent sewing
Somme, Yuli
New Uses for Wool
Walker, Fergus
Long Memories and Forgotten Designers: Wooden boat building and the contribution of the craftsperson’s tradition to design for sustainability
3. Critical perspectives on post-industrial futures
This session will examine the relationship of craft practices to ‘post-industrial’ modes of design, making, marketing and consumption along with emerging reactions to mass production, de-skilling and consumption, (i.e., in ‘slow design’, the cult of the ‘imperfect' and 'amateurism').
Hughes, Peter
Towards a post-consumer subjectivity: a future for the crafts in the twenty first century?
Loveday-Edwards, Mary
Craft and the Triple Bottom Line
Oakley, Peter
Does Contemporary Craft Carry a Social Deficit? An analysis through comparison with related creative practices
Van Koten, Hamid
Making Futures: the crafts in the contexts of emerging global sustainability agendas
4. Responses, redefinitions & repositionings
This session will explore some of the ways in which craft practitioners are imaginatively responding to public dialogues around sustainability issues, especially through the “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle” rubric.
Brook, Isis
Craft skills and their role in healing ourselves and the world
Oseng, Tyra
Physical and Aesthetic Properties of Fused Recycled Bottle Glass
Savageau, Ann
Bags Across the Globe: Bagging the Waste for a Sustainable Future
Tam, Roy
Furniture for LIFE. Can Craft be a model for industry? A practice-based presentation of Trannon’s eco-design workshop
This session will explore social equity and environmental sustainability in the context of crafts education and curriculum design.
Boyes, Alma
Sustaining Craft Practice by Teaching and Learning through Live
Fraser, Simon
Only Connect*, 21st century cultural practice, thinking and making across continents. (*Forster E. M. Howards End, Edward Arnold, London 1910)
Jones, David
The Concept of Permanence in the Crafts and its contribution to a sustainable future
Walker, Ruth
A Sustainable Education of Craft in the UK: The University of Huddersfield
Wright, Elizabeth
Endangered Subjects, Crafting Sustainable Minds from Practice Based Education