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Craft Research 12.1 is out now!
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Craft Research 12.1 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Craft Research 12.1 is out now! 

 

For more information about the journal and issue, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/craft-research

 

Aims and Scope 

 

The aim of Craft Research is to advocate and promote current and emerging craft research, including research into materials, processes, methods, concepts, aesthetic and style. This may be in any discipline area of the applied arts and crafts, including craft education.

 

Issue 12.1 

 

Editorial

 

Craft as a meeting place

KATHERINE TOWNSEND AND KRISTINA NIEDDERER

 

Articles

 

Emerging DIY activities to enable wellbeing and connected societies

KIRSI NIINIMÄKI, MARIUM DURRANI AND CINDY KOHTALA

 

‘Monstrous’ craft activism: A city yarn installation that wrought controversy through textile togetherness and community engagement

HINDA MANDELL

 

Quiltmakers’ meaning-making in Aotearoa New Zealand: Social interactions, embodied experiences and material mediation

LINDA CLAIRE WARNER, PIRITA SEITAMAA-HAKKARAINEN AND KAI HAKKARAINEN

 

The role of the state in saving Paitker painting in Jharkhand

GAITRI KUMARI AND ABHAYA RANJAN SHRIVASTAVA

 

Craft and Industry Report

 

Rural Crafts: A study in South Wiltshire

HADRIAN COOK AND KATHY STEARNE

 

The Portrait Section

 

There and back again: A carver’s tale of losing and regaining sense of space due to a brain tumour

MARTE SØREBØ GULLIKSEN

 

Book Review

 

The Politics of Vietnamese Craft: American Diplomacy and Domestication, Jennifer Way (2020)

ANDREA PEACH

 

The Conference Section

 

Blame the Tools: Crafty Robots, Well-behaved Implements and Disobedient Devices

DAVID DURLING

 

Calendar of Events

 

Exhibitions, conferences, publications

 

Remarkable Image

 

Paitker painting on paper made by Bijoy Chitrakar depicting ‘daily life of local

community’. Photograph: Gaitri Kumari and Abhaya Ranjan Shrivastava