‘Futuring Craft’ An Overview
Dr Qassim Saad (Ed's)
Curatorial Advisor & Conference Convenor
The c... more ‘Futuring Craft’ An Overview Dr Qassim Saad (Ed's) Curatorial Advisor & Conference Convenor The conference aims to map contemporary crafts in the Indian Ocean region and to define the future scope of craft making. Current indicative research and creative practices will contribute towards the futuring of crafts across the region. The conference enhances the efforts of academics, craft-makers and curators to collaboratively engage, through critical analysis, and to challenge predominant conceptions linking crafts with the past, to move further towards addressing the notion that, “Craft needs to be seen as a quality of things of the future, rather than a thing of the past! It needs to arrive as elemental to a future economy and culture” (Fry, 2011, P. 139) In this context, we argue ‘futuring’ as a scope of employing individual characteristics to enhance the future transformation of our societies. As human beings, we rely on non-human things; these are the artefacts that we position as a central element in sustaining our physical and mental life. Futuring craft research aims to theorise creative practices and create experimental knowledge, to support the broadening of research practices into, for, and through craft practice (Frayling, 1993), as “[t]his scope is still relatively underdeveloped compared to mainstream design research” (Niedderer, 2014, P. 625). Building on the significance of crafts as value-driven within the existing economic paradigm, this approach is applied across the region as a reflection on transformation towards modernity, development, and beyond. We must acknowledge craft as an object of empowerment, as an artefact that interacts physically through its quality of making as well as through its sensory influences, as reflected through experience, emotion, and aesthetic pleasure.
‘Futuring Craft’ An Overview
Dr Qassim Saad (Ed's)
Curatorial Advisor & Conference Convenor
The c... more ‘Futuring Craft’ An Overview Dr Qassim Saad (Ed's) Curatorial Advisor & Conference Convenor The conference aims to map contemporary crafts in the Indian Ocean region and to define the future scope of craft making. Current indicative research and creative practices will contribute towards the futuring of crafts across the region. The conference enhances the efforts of academics, craft-makers and curators to collaboratively engage, through critical analysis, and to challenge predominant conceptions linking crafts with the past, to move further towards addressing the notion that, “Craft needs to be seen as a quality of things of the future, rather than a thing of the past! It needs to arrive as elemental to a future economy and culture” (Fry, 2011, P. 139) In this context, we argue ‘futuring’ as a scope of employing individual characteristics to enhance the future transformation of our societies. As human beings, we rely on non-human things; these are the artefacts that we position as a central element in sustaining our physical and mental life. Futuring craft research aims to theorise creative practices and create experimental knowledge, to support the broadening of research practices into, for, and through craft practice (Frayling, 1993), as “[t]his scope is still relatively underdeveloped compared to mainstream design research” (Niedderer, 2014, P. 625). Building on the significance of crafts as value-driven within the existing economic paradigm, this approach is applied across the region as a reflection on transformation towards modernity, development, and beyond. We must acknowledge craft as an object of empowerment, as an artefact that interacts physically through its quality of making as well as through its sensory influences, as reflected through experience, emotion, and aesthetic pleasure.
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Dr Qassim Saad (Ed's)
Curatorial Advisor & Conference Convenor
The conference aims to map contemporary crafts in the Indian Ocean region and to define the future scope of craft making. Current indicative research and creative practices will contribute towards the futuring of crafts across the region. The conference enhances the efforts of academics, craft-makers and curators to collaboratively engage, through critical analysis, and to challenge predominant conceptions linking crafts with the past, to move further towards addressing the notion that, “Craft needs to be seen as a quality of things of the future, rather than a thing of the past! It needs to arrive as elemental to a future economy and culture” (Fry, 2011, P. 139) In this context, we argue ‘futuring’ as a scope of employing individual characteristics to enhance the future transformation of our societies. As human beings, we rely on non-human things; these are the artefacts that we position as a central element in sustaining our physical and mental life. Futuring craft research aims to theorise creative practices and create experimental knowledge, to support the broadening of research practices into, for, and through craft practice (Frayling, 1993), as “[t]his scope is still relatively underdeveloped compared to mainstream design research” (Niedderer, 2014, P. 625). Building on the significance of crafts as value-driven within the existing economic paradigm, this approach is applied across the region as a reflection on transformation towards modernity, development, and beyond. We must acknowledge craft as an object of empowerment, as an artefact that interacts physically through its quality of making as well as through its sensory influences, as reflected through experience, emotion, and aesthetic pleasure.
Dr Qassim Saad (Ed's)
Curatorial Advisor & Conference Convenor
The conference aims to map contemporary crafts in the Indian Ocean region and to define the future scope of craft making. Current indicative research and creative practices will contribute towards the futuring of crafts across the region. The conference enhances the efforts of academics, craft-makers and curators to collaboratively engage, through critical analysis, and to challenge predominant conceptions linking crafts with the past, to move further towards addressing the notion that, “Craft needs to be seen as a quality of things of the future, rather than a thing of the past! It needs to arrive as elemental to a future economy and culture” (Fry, 2011, P. 139) In this context, we argue ‘futuring’ as a scope of employing individual characteristics to enhance the future transformation of our societies. As human beings, we rely on non-human things; these are the artefacts that we position as a central element in sustaining our physical and mental life. Futuring craft research aims to theorise creative practices and create experimental knowledge, to support the broadening of research practices into, for, and through craft practice (Frayling, 1993), as “[t]his scope is still relatively underdeveloped compared to mainstream design research” (Niedderer, 2014, P. 625). Building on the significance of crafts as value-driven within the existing economic paradigm, this approach is applied across the region as a reflection on transformation towards modernity, development, and beyond. We must acknowledge craft as an object of empowerment, as an artefact that interacts physically through its quality of making as well as through its sensory influences, as reflected through experience, emotion, and aesthetic pleasure.