Una plataforma, unes jornades anuals liderades pel Plymouth College of Art que reflexionen sobre le paper de les artesanies en els nous debats de la sostenibilidad i del post-industrialisme...
The crafts in the context of emerging global
sustainability agendas
The last few
years have witnessed something of a resurgence of interest in ideas about craft
in post-industrial societies. This revival has moved beyond the specialist
fields of arts and crafts practitioners and writers, i.e., the domain of Craft
with a capital “C”. Popular texts such as de Botton’s The
Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009) or, more particularly, Sennett’s The Craftsmen (2008)
and Crawford’s The Case for Working with
your Hands (2010), have sought to retrieve the prosaic and somewhat
neglected notion of ‘craft’ and to position it at the centre of debate about
the place and value of productive work in a post-industrial globalised context.
It is ironic, but of course symptomatic, that this wider interest in the idea
of craft is occurring at exactly the same moment in which many of the
studio-based arts and crafts are acquiring the status of ‘Endangered Subjects’
(at least in the UK) and the contemporary art school - or its typical heir, the
University Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries [sic] - has all but eradicated
reference to the middle-term from the traditional Trinitarian ‘art, craft and design’
conception of its pedagogic mission.
