Monday, 3 October 2016

OUGD601 / First Thoughts

What is the value of hand made design within the 21st century?

First thoughts...

- what is the value in an age where everything is mass produced and digital?
- has it affected the culture of modern design?
- sustainablility 
- current trends
- philosophies of craft
- impulse / human instinct to make / create with our hands
- connecting through making

LITERATURE 

Craft in Society - An Anthology of Perspectives - Noris Ioannou

Making is Connecting - David Gauntlett

Bauhaus Textiles - Sigrid Wortmann Weltge

Power of Making - Daniel Charny

By Hand, The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art - Shu Hung & Joseph Magliaro


"This book poses incisive questions about the increasing distance people have from making, and the impact de-skilling and the loss of knowledge of how things are made have on innovation, contemporary cultural production and society." - Power of Making, Daniel Charny

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