Representing Craft/Crafting Representation

Design History Society

How has craft been represented through a variety of media? What impact does representation through the particularities of images, films, spoken and written words, digital platforms have on how craft is practiced and understood? To what extent do representations focus upon materials, tools, practices, makers, environments? How has the dialogue between craft and representation informed the transmission of craft skills? How has the mediation of craft informed its status within debates about heritage and identity? In what ways might translation across particular modalities of communication resonate distinctly locally, transnationally, globally? How has the representation of craft been mobilised to generate or to problematise consumption? This open online seminar investigated these pertinent topics with speakers worldwide and across the widest range of disciplines and career stages who are thinking critically about intersections between craft and representation.

Session 4: Craft Institutions