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  • Creating a brighter future? Responses to the commercialisation of a new ceramic print technology

Oakley, Peter, 2017, Journal Article, Creating a brighter future? Responses to the commercialisation of a new ceramic print technology Making Futures, 5 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2042-1664

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This paper examines the phenomenon of crafting in industry, primarily through some of the findings of the AHRC-funded project: Extending the Potential for the Digitally Printed Ceramic Surface. The paper will present observations from the project, including project participants’ perspectives towards ‘intelligent making’ as it features in their day-to-day work. This material will then be compared with other fieldwork conducted by the author and the work of other researchers, in order to determine where crafting typically fits into manufacturing relating to the creative industries, particularly in the case of the production of luxury and other high-value goods. Having located crafting in industry and identified the unique contribution it makes to a range of manufacturing situations, the author then asks if it is important that such activities are acknowledged in any sense by by practitioners themselves or their employers and managers as a distinctive type of practice. The paper concludes by considering if acknowledgement in itself will be sufficient to support crafting in industry in the 21st century, and if not, what further steps may need to be taken in order to ensure its survival.

Official URL: https://makingfuturesarchive.pca.ac.uk/archive/mfj...
Subjects: Other > Social studies > L600 Anthropology > L610 Social and Cultural Anthropology
Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies > W270 Ceramics Design
School or Centre: School of Arts & Humanities
Funders: AHRC
Identification Number or DOI: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ajKGJScOqodCL0nFj5lfVv1XeAKtaSkq/view
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2018 11:17
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2021 11:28
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3184
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