Craft Economies

Name: Craft Economies
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781350353404
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Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, examining both amateur and professional making within the broader creative economy. The book covers diverse practices, from floristry and ceramics to crochet and coding, across various regional and national contexts. It also addresses the influence of digital making, the maker movement, and emerging trends such as on-demand production, customization, 3D printing, and digital manufacturing.
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This work is ideal for readers interested in modern craft, creative economies, and digital manufacturing trends, including academics, practitioners, and students of arts and culture.

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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 customization, on-demand production, and the possibilities of 3D printing and digital manufacturing.

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Praised for its pluralistic and international approach, the book offers a complex and nuanced examination of the contemporary craft economy. Simon Olding highlights its humanistic perspective on craft as embedded in culture and economy, while Heidi Schwegler emphasises its critical insights into disruptive collaboration, commodity activism, and the positioning of makers in a consumer market dissatisfied with mass production. The essays reveal craft as a subtle, complex, and pervasive cultural economy.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350353404

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 January 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 30 bw illus

Contributors:

Edited by Dr Susan Luckman
Edited by Dr Nicola Thomas

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 244.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 720g

Pages: 248

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Susan Luckman is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries and Director of the Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre at the University of South Australia. Her work is concerned with the intersections of creativity, place, making and technology.

Nicola Thomas is Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research addresses craft geographies and situating contemporary and 20th-century craft practice within the broader creative economy.