Friday, November 30, 2007

Craft Research

Craft Research is a really interesting blog by a group of researchers from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee in the UK. It was put together to encourage and develop some discussion around a research project they are undertaking called "Past, Present & Future Craft Practice: exploration of the inter-relation between skill, intent and culture". Its full of interesting musings, ideas and debates on contemporary craft, and has just been updated with a summary by Mike Press of his impressions of the recent Neocraft Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Worth a read. I’m seriously wishing I could have gone (love a good conference i do!), but will have to make do with the book, the podcasts and reports from Carol at Musing About Mud, who attended the conference and chaired a panel on Global Craft. You can check out the program and find out a bit more about the conference here.

2 comments:

Di said...

Just discovered your blog and it's funny that your most recent post is about Dundee - where I live! I have also come across the Future Craft project. I took part in a research project at Duncan of Jordanstone recently =. It is an interesting idea!

Mel Robson said...

Hi Diana,and fancy that! Thanks for visiting!