Craft Research
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Ingatorps tithe barn is one of the oldest extant corner timbered buildings in Sweden. It was ”discovered” as medieval in 2003 due to its steep gables and characteristic hewing marks on the timbers. A dendrochronological analyse dated one... more
The project Historic Carpentry Art in The Diocese of Lund started in 2014. By making a full inventory of the historic wooden constructions in the nearly 350 churches with medieval origin in the diocese we believe that what is known can be... more
Parallellt med restaureringen av Ingatorps tiondebod har dendrokronologiska provtagningar, analyser och hantverksvetenskapliga undersökningar genomförts. Utifrån resultaten från första provtagningen kröntes tiondeboden till att vara... more
In 2001, the corner timbered church of Södra Råda burnt to the ground. The Swedish National Heritage Board immediately proclaimed that the church should be reconstructed 'as a pedagogical example to enhance craft practice and historical... more
A reflective piece about the research process and fieldwork undertaken for PhD in India.
- What if we understood fashion as a bioelectrical energy and as a form of flirting? - What if fashion is not so much about clothes, but primarily a cognitive interface between living organisms, hungry for connection and love? - How... more
With the rise of the Internet, skills, patterns, and ideas are being shared more widely among people engaged in the crafts, which seems to break with some of the underlying assumptions about the lone genius craftsman. Much discourse... more
Historically clay has been an important building material in Scania and half-timbered houses with thatched roofs are still a signum for the region. In 2009 a project about vernacular use of clay in buildings was implemented by the author,... more
Craft and design has had a dialectical history since early modernism, where craft often sided with the romanticism of the 'arts and craft movement', while design became primarily market-led and allied with mass production, industrialism... more
The subject of this article is the documentation of intangible heritage, whose safeguarding is a core activity. The idea of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), in which traditional craftsmanship... more
Artikeln behandlar timmermanskonsten i Ronnebys Sankt Laurentius kyrka.
Denna artikel kommer att behandla hur man med geometrisk analys, med hjälp av passare och linjal, kan få kunskap kring hur takstolar och kyrkor ursprungligen gestaltats. Här förklaras också avmärkningar som gjorts som hjälplinjer inför... more
För att kunna rekonstruera de ursprungliga fönsteröppningarna i Södra Råda kyrka, räckte det inte med en titt i arkiven. En djupare förståelse för den medeltida bygg-mästarens arbetssätt krävdes, samt förmåga att hantera en passare.... more
The interest for doing this study is developed during my time as a student in textile history at Uppsala university, Sweden. Textile history, as it is taught in Uppsala, uses both practical and theoretical knowledge as a base for... more
By leaving the studio and using crafts to teach and promote capabilities, as well as taking on systems and structures by hand, we hack into reality itself.
Conducting research through creative and artistic practices is becoming an established approach used to advance knowledge in various domains of the Arts. Although this approach tends to highlight the voice of the author through the... more
An artwork is a collaborative activity between the artist's mind, bodily senses, environment, and an art medium. This qualitative research study used a phenomenological approach to explore the artists' unique and personal experiences... more
is a designer-researcher specializing in cross-cultural collaboration. Informed by the dynamics of people, places, and processes, his work employs craft as a platform to investigate ways of socializing knowledge through materiality. He... more
För hantverksforskarna runt Södra Råda kyrka var det till en början svårt att förstå de gamla ritningarna över taklaget. Var de kanske felgjorda? Genom att se bortom vår egen tids normer och undersöka det material som faktiskt finns... more
A significant part of our cultural heritage consists of wood. Research on historical wooden structures and artefacts thereby provides knowledge of people’s daily lives and the society in which they lived. Dendrochronology is a... more
Conducting research through creative and artistic practices is becoming an established approach used to advance knowledge in various domains of the Arts. Although this approach tends to highlight the voice of the author through the... more
Poster presented at the conference Preserve Use and Develop, arranged by the Diocese of Lund 25-26 april 2018. Notice that the preview is not readable only the download version.