Craftwork as Problem Solving
Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
Published:18th Dec '17
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This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the diversity and complexity of problem-solving tactics and strategies employed by craftspeople, together with the key social, cultural, and environmental factors that give rise to particular ways of problem solving. Presenting rich, textured ethnographic studies of craftspeople at work around the world, Craftwork as Problem Solving examines the intelligent practices involved in solving a variety of problems and the ways in which these are perceived and evaluated both by makers and creators themselves, and by the societies in which they work. With attention to local factors such as training regimes and formal education, access to tools, socialisation and cultural understanding, budgetary constraints and market demands, changing technologies and materials, and political and economic regimes, this book sheds fresh light on the multifarious forms of intelligence involved in design and making, inventing and manufacturing, and cultivating and producing. As such, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, and cultural geography, as well as to craftspeople with interests in creativity, skilful practice, perception and ethnography.
’This important collection of writings on craft clearly establishes the value of foregrounding the artisan's perspective. Through close attention to the embodied dimension of skilled making, these essays succeed in that most difficult task of rendering tacit knowledge explicit. The result is a volume of fascinating case studies, which also constitute a paradigm for future research to follow.’ Glenn Adamson, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
ISBN: 9780815346548
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
286 pages