Collaboration, mutuality and community: producing and consuming contemporary craft

协作、相互性和社区：当代工艺品的生产和消费

• 批准号: AH/M008452/1
• 负责人: Nicola Thomas
• 金额: $ 10.2万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM008452%2F1
• 关键词: Collaboration; mutuality; community; producing; consuming

This project is designed to explore insights from four intersecting AHRC projects that addressed twentieth and contemporary cultures of craft practice and policy. Craft practice is currently part of the contemporary zeitgeist. Practices of DIY, knitting, up-cycling, sewing, hacking have become responses to austerity, environmental crisis and anti-capitalist actions. Government figures document that 102,000 people work within the craft sector, who together contributed £248 million Gross Value Added to the UK economy in 2012 (DCSM 2014). Trade and industry sees the celebration of 'Best of British' with small scale, bespoke or handcrafted batch production growing in market share, for an audience who eschew mass production and values the 'heritage' of British skilled labour. Practitioners producing hand crafted objects have unprecedented outlets to sell their work at festivals, studio tours or online, in addition to the traditional gallery or commission opportunities. Craft is again 'of the moment', but these moments carry with them the politics of past generations of practitioners and enthusiasts, who share skills, values and experience. Within the research undertaken, 'craft' has gathered as a complex assemblage of relations.The research undertaken sees craft within a circuit of production and consumption, where people, policy, materials, political ethos, skill, time, place, money, makers and buyers combine. The proposed activities within this follow-on-fund aim to bring into relief this nexus of mutuality that underscores the creative economy. The Crafts Council, the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen are working in partnership with Dr Thomas, University of Exeter to co-design three activities that illuminate different elements of the assemblage of the contemporary craft economy.Activity 1: 'Celebrate: 60 Years of Connecting Makers and Consumers through Craft', delivered in partnership with the Devon Guild of CraftsmenA nine-month exhibition, retail and online campaign that uses the Guild's diamond anniversary to explore the history of the Guild through the 'social lives' of crafted objects made by members of the Guild, past and present. The concept draws attention to the intersection between the Guild's function of connecting designer-makers to audiences through the outputs of skilled labour. The activities follow the stories of the objects as they pass through layers of ownership and develop attachments and stories that transcend the 'hand' of the original maker.Activity 2: 'Making collaborations: Making Connections', delivered in partnership with the Gloucestershire Guild of CraftsmenAn online and touring exhibition that focuses on the Guild as an expanded community of practice and interest to reveal the everyday relations of mutuality that underpin creative endeavors. Dr Thomas' research explored the hidden histories of the Guild, for example the role of peer, family or customer support in supporting designer maker's enterprise. The research will be used to present an alternative history of the Guild, and trigger a community orientated history that explores the organisation's cooperative ethos. The history will be given a forward orientation as ten pairs of Guild member collaborate and produce new work for an associated touring exhibition that illuminates the ongoing politics and practices of cooperation. Activity 3: 'Making policy: Researcher in Residence', delivered in partnership with the Crafts Council Dr Thomas will be seconded to the Crafts Council to work with the Research and Policy team. She will contribute to the Crafts Council's strategic objectives by contributing evidence based research and knowledge to support the Crafts Council's mission to chart and anticipate economic, social, cultural and political trends in craft. Multi-media resources and briefings will be created to disseminate the research findings to audiences within the creative industries.

该项目旨在探讨从四个交叉AHRC项目，解决了二十和当代文化的工艺实践和政策的见解。手工艺实践目前是当代时代精神的一部分。DIY、编织、升级循环、缝纫、黑客行为已经成为对紧缩、环境危机和反资本主义行动的回应。政府数据显示，有102，000人在手工艺行业工作，他们在2012年为英国经济贡献了2.48亿英镑的总附加值（DCSM 2014）。贸易和工业看到了“英国最佳”的庆祝活动，小规模，定制或手工批量生产的市场份额不断增长，为那些避免大规模生产和重视英国熟练劳动力的“遗产”的观众。除了传统的画廊或委托机会外，制作手工艺品的从业者还拥有前所未有的渠道，可以在节日、工作室图尔斯之旅或网上出售他们的作品。手工艺再次成为“当下”，但这些时刻伴随着过去几代从业者和爱好者的政治，他们分享技能，价值观和经验。在所进行的研究中，“手工艺”被视为一种复杂的关系集合。所进行的研究将手工艺视为一种生产和消费的循环，在这种循环中，人、政策、材料、政治风气、技能、时间、地点、金钱、制造者和购买者联合收割机结合在一起。在这一后续基金范围内拟议开展的活动旨在突出强调创意经济的这种相互关系。手工艺理事会、德文郡手工艺行会和格洛斯特郡手工艺行会与埃克塞特大学的托马斯博士合作，共同设计三项活动，阐明当代手工艺经济组合的不同元素。60年通过手工艺连接制造商和消费者“，与德文郡手工艺协会合作举办为期九个月的展览，一个零售和在线活动，利用公会的钻石周年纪念日，通过公会成员制作的手工艺品的“社交生活”来探索公会的历史，过去和现在。这一概念提请注意，该协会通过熟练劳动力的产出将设计师-制作者与受众联系起来的职能之间存在交叉点。这些活动遵循物品的故事，因为它们通过所有权的层次，并发展出超越原始制造者“手”的依恋和故事。活动2：“建立合作：建立联系，与格洛斯特郡工匠协会合作举办一个在线和巡回展览，重点介绍该协会作为一个扩大的实践和兴趣社区，以揭示日常的相互关系支持创造性的努力。托马斯博士的研究探索了该协会隐藏的历史，例如同行，家庭或客户支持在支持设计师制造商的企业中的作用。该研究将被用来呈现该公会的另一种历史，并引发一个以社区为导向的历史，探索该组织的合作精神。历史将被赋予一个向前的方向，因为十对公会成员合作，并为相关的巡回展览，照亮了正在进行的政治和合作的做法产生新的工作。活动三：制定政策：与工艺品理事会合作提供的“居住研究员”托马斯博士将被借调到工艺品理事会，与研究和政策团队合作。她将通过提供基于证据的研究和知识来支持手工艺理事会的使命，以绘制和预测手工艺的经济、社会、文化和政治趋势，从而为手工艺理事会的战略目标做出贡献。我们会制作多媒体资源和简报会，向创意产业的受众传播研究结果。

项目成果

'Making space for historical geographies of the creative economy'

“为创意经济的历史地理创造空间”

• 作者: Thomas, N.J.

Crafting Communities: a review

打造社区：回顾

• 作者: Thomas, N.J.

Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity

制造、工艺和创造力的地理

• DOI: 10.4324/9781315296937-4
• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Thomas N

'Curating 'standard': the politics and practice of selling craft in collective exhibition/retail spaces'

“策划‘标准’：在集体展览/零售空间销售工艺品的政治和实践”

• 作者: Thomas, N.J.

Creative Hubs in Question

受质疑的创意中心

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Thomas, N