Craft ResearchPub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.1386/CRRE.10.1.41_1
J. Pinski, F. Kane, M. Evans
{"title":"Designing through craft practice: A woven textile approach for footwear","authors":"J. Pinski, F. Kane, M. Evans","doi":"10.1386/CRRE.10.1.41_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CRRE.10.1.41_1","url":null,"abstract":"Commercial sandals are typically designed in a two-dimensional (2D) format with materials being applied during product development. In contrast, woven textile practitioners frequently utilize hands-on interaction with materials to produce design ideas through a craft-based approach. Hands-on making has been associated with a number of benefits including, but not limited to, knowledge generation and the potential for innovation. This article reports on practice-led research consisting of a sandal design project that integrates craft-based woven textile practice. Action research was used to develop the approach and evaluate the creative potential and practical considerations at different stages of the design process. Ultimately, this research determines where and how craft-based woven textile practice may be integrated into commercial footwear design and identifies the associated creative design potential. Qualitative data was recorded by written and visual means of documentation and analyzed using coding and clustering. The findings indicate that there is novel creative potential associated with the integration of a craft-based woven textile approach to sandal design and that it may be integrated to varying degrees at all stages of the design process. Benefits include opportunities for innovation, generation of in-depth knowledge, control, and immediacy in decision-making. Key challenges were noted in time and cost inefficiencies. The ability to consider material and product design in parallel ensured a considered relationship between the two. This led to benefits in the final designs that included the production of zero-waste, stitch free constructions. This research contributes empirical evidence and findings in relation to theoretical concerns in the area of craft practice as a vehicle for design innovation.","PeriodicalId":42324,"journal":{"name":"Craft Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/CRRE.10.1.41_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46204289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Craft ResearchPub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.1386/CRRE.10.1.69_1
O. Nezer
{"title":"The search for localism and abstract expressionism in Israeli ceramics in the 1970s","authors":"O. Nezer","doi":"10.1386/CRRE.10.1.69_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CRRE.10.1.69_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42324,"journal":{"name":"Craft Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45446278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Craft ResearchPub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.1386/CRRE.10.1.17_1
L. Eriksson, Joakim Seiler, Patrik Jarefjäll, G. Almevik
{"title":"The time-space of craftsmanship","authors":"L. Eriksson, Joakim Seiler, Patrik Jarefjäll, G. Almevik","doi":"10.1386/CRRE.10.1.17_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CRRE.10.1.17_1","url":null,"abstract":"It is hard to extract and articulate someone’s tacit knowledge or craftsmanship into universal rules for all to employ. Nevertheless, there is an urgent need for appropriate tools to be devoloped t ...","PeriodicalId":42324,"journal":{"name":"Craft Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42326579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Craft ResearchPub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1386/crre.9.2.325_5
Violeta Gutiérrez, Barbara Knoke de Arathoon
{"title":"Exhibition Review","authors":"Violeta Gutiérrez, Barbara Knoke de Arathoon","doi":"10.1386/crre.9.2.325_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/crre.9.2.325_5","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary theories of subjectivity tell us that identity is constructed and, therefore, unstable. How is it, then, that our sense of self and our place in the world can feel so fixed? The works of British-Spanish artist Isabel Rocamora suggest that we needn’t look far to understand: what binds us to our social selves is a complex web, spun with small details of clothing and objects and repeated bodily movements and gestures; even the land beneath our feet pulls us, like gravity, toward particular identities. In each of the four moving-image works shown in the Koffler Gallery’s Troubled Histories, Ecstatic Solitudes, Rocamora explores four demographics of identity, then deconstructs the props and processes that hold, and often hurt, them. Evident was the artist’s performance background, and her subsequent development in video, then film. Curator Mona Filip’s selection of works and their arrangement in the gallery allowed for subtle conversations to develop between them, although they’ve never before been shown together. Serving to introduce both the show itself and Rocamora’s first moving-image experiments was Portrait in Time and Gesture (2005). Throughout the six-minute video, two nearly identical women, shot independently and then fused together through double exposure, stand before a roughly textured wall. When the video begins, the figures are aligned, and appear as one. Then, throughout the remainder of the video, the women variously merge with and separate from each other. The gap within the self opens up, then closes, suggesting the roving identities within a Lacanian split subject. Screening this work on a small monitor in the gallery entrance served its curatorial purpose—marking it as one of the artist’s early transitional pieces—but the monitor’s small size limited its aesthetic potential, available in the graceful flow of movements and mottled colored background. Three high-definition videos, shot originally on 16mm film, occupied the two gallery rooms. In the first room, and directly across from each other, were two films that shared symmetries, despite their different subjects. The loose narrative in the twenty-one-minute dual-channel Horizon of Exile (2007) expressed—through performance, dance, and sound—women’s tightly proscribed existence in society. The film was inspired by post-9/11 media representations of Middle Eastern women. Under that Orientalizing gaze, these nameless victims of Islamic brutality served to justify Western invasion. Rocamora sought to return to them their flesh and feeling. Horizon of exile follows the figure of “woman”—represented primarily through actors’ performances—through an allegorical journey within and away from her constricted role in society. In the first scenes, a woman gets dressed in her domestic space—her identity closing in more tightly with each precise layer of clothing. The singular figure doubles to two women who, clothed in black robes and hijabs, move through arid desert landscapes","PeriodicalId":42324,"journal":{"name":"Craft Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48278160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Craft ResearchPub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1386/CRRE.9.2.273_1
Jessica Hemmings
{"title":"Rereading and revising: Acknowledging the smallness (sometimes) of craft","authors":"Jessica Hemmings","doi":"10.1386/CRRE.9.2.273_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CRRE.9.2.273_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42324,"journal":{"name":"Craft Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/CRRE.9.2.273_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43848077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Craft ResearchPub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.1386/CRRE.9.2.195_2
K. Niedderer, K. Townsend
{"title":"Making sense: Personal, ecological and social sustainability through craft","authors":"K. Niedderer, K. Townsend","doi":"10.1386/CRRE.9.2.195_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CRRE.9.2.195_2","url":null,"abstract":"Applied Design Futures and leads the Digital Craft and Embodied Knowledge research cluster. Following a career as a practising designer and lecturer in the fashion and textile industry, she gained a practice-led Ph.D. in 2004, Transforming Shape, which explored the integration of hand and digital technology to design advanced 3D printed fashion and textile concepts. Her current research is focused on how digital craft is informed by experiential knowledge of established practices and technologies.","PeriodicalId":42324,"journal":{"name":"Craft Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/CRRE.9.2.195_2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41641292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}