Artisanal making and the future of small-scale local production

小规模的本地生产对澳大利亚在COVID后的社会和经济复苏至关重要。该项目采用混合方法，旨在确定消费者身份、决策和可持续手工生产模式，这些模式支撑着当代对当地制造的商品的需求。该项目创新性地超越了生产/消费和单个生产部门的二元关系，预计将产生关于如何扩大澳大利亚小规模生产市场的重要新知识。该项目的预期成果包括生成可靠的数据，为有利于经营者保持竞争力的战略提供信息，并支持新兴手工业的发展。

Small-scale local production is essential to Australia’s post-COVID social and economic recovery. Employing a mixed methods approach, this project aims to identify the consumer identities, decision-making and sustainable artisanal production models underpinning contemporary demand for locally made goods. Moving innovatively beyond binaries of production/consumption and individual production sectors, the project expects to generate vital new knowledge about how markets for small-scale Australian production can be expanded. Expected outcomes of this project include the generation of robust data to inform strategies that will benefit operators in remaining competitive and support the development of new and emerging artisanal businesses.