@misc{b6c00c3ecf304c13a17a19386042df1c,
title = "Past, present and future craft practice",
author = "Georgina Follett and Bill Nixon and Louise Valentine and Donald, \{Elizabeth Kay\} and Frances Stevenson and Fanke Peng",
note = "The project aims to articulate the relation between skill, intent, and culture through the construction of an integrated approach to questioning visual knowledge. This research investigates craft-based practice as a socially interactive process despite being an individual executed product, where dialogical methods expose contradictions and nurture mindful interrogation: a system of thinking. A world-wide network of research links is being established with other craft researchers, organisations and institutions. The Research Fellow is Dr L. Valentine, and there are 3 attached PhDs: Peng, 'Development of a visual analysis tool for interrogating craft'; Stevenson, 'Economically sustainable Craft Practice'; Donald: 'Visual Aesthetic embodied in Craft'. Five practitioners are recruited to the project for 18 months for evaluation of their work practices. The project will culminate in a festival and exhibition of crafts in 2010. The project has multiple outcomes and milestones including a major conference (2007), exhibitions (2007 and 2010), journal articles, and artefacts to establish current craft practices and debate issues. The conference 'New Craft Future Voices' (Dundee, 4th-6th July 2007) launched the project. Keynote speakers: Professor Peter Greenhalgh, President and Director, Corcoran, Washington; Bruce Metcalf, University of the Arts Philadelphia; Sandra Alfoldy, University of Halifax; Jorunn Veiteburgh, National College of the Arts, Bergen; Mari O'Mahony, independent consultant, author, curator. Conference received 94 abstracts, from 14 countries in all craft disciplines. Attendance was 110 from 11 countries. The conference proceedings were published as New Craft Future Voices (pp 502) (ISBN 1 899837 55 8) Further dissemination of the project{\textquoteright}s interim findings was presented at the 'Neo-Craft' conference in Halifax Nova Scotia by Follett and Valentine, (November 23rd 2007) and a special edition of The Design Journal dedicated to New Craft Future Voices, (Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2007, ISSN 1460-6925), guest edited by Follett and Valentine. Evidence: Portfolio of supporting evidence dc.description.sponsorship: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded coverage.spatial: Special edition of The Design Journal dedicated to New Craft Future Voices, Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2007, ISSN 1460-6925 'Neo-Craft' conference in Halifax Nova Scotia by Follett and Valentine, November 23rd 2007 'New Craft Future Voices' Conference at Dundee, 4th-6th July 2007 dc.isbasedon: Past Present and Future Craft Practice, edited by Louise Valentine and Georgina Follett. ISBN 978-1-905267-50-7 Follett, G. and Valentine, L. [Eds.] (2007). New Craft Future Voices: conference proceedings. Scotland: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. ISBN – 1 899837 55 8 ",
year = "2007",
language = "English",
publisher = "University of Dundee",
}