CONTENTS
List of illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors ix
1.Crafting economies: Contemporary cultural economies of the handmade 1
Susan Luckman and Nicola Thomas
Part One : Craft, Making and the Creative Economy 15
2. Crafts community: physical and virtual
Xin Gu 17
3. Fast forward: design economies and practice in the near future
Marzia Mortati 28
4. Craft, collectivity and event-time
Katve-Kaisa Kontturi 38
5. "Buy a hat, save a life”: commodity activism, fair trade, and crafting economies of change'
Lisa A. Daily 49
Part Two : Craft, the 'Handmade' and Contested Commodification 59
6. Towards a politics of making: re-framing material work and locating skill in the Anthropocene
Chris Gibson and Chantel Carr 61
7. Dichotomies in textile making: employing digital technology and retaining authenticity
Sonja Andrew and Kandy Diamond 70
8. People have the power?: appropriate technology and the implications of design for labour
intensive making Gabriele Oropallo 83
9. The ghost potter: vital forms and spectral marks of skilled craftsmen in contemporary tableware
Ezra Shales 94
Part Three : The Work of Craft 105
10. Our future is in the making: trends in craft education, practice and policy
Julia Bennett 107
11. Establishing the crafting self in the contemporary creative economy
Susan Luckman and Jane Andrew 119
12. Handmaking your way out of poverty?: craftwork's potential and peril as a strategy for poverty alleviation in Rockford, Illinois - Jessica Barnes 129
Craft-Driven Place-Making and Transnational Circuits of Craft Practice
13. Interrogating localism: what does “Made in Portland” really mean? 14
Stephen Marotta and Charles Heying
14. Policy, locality and networks in a cultural and creative countryside: the case of Jingdezhen, China' Troy Zhen Chen 150
15. Design Recycle meets the Product Introduction Hall: Craft, locality and agency in northern Japan - Sarah Teasley 162
16. Crafted places/places for craft: pop-up and the politics of the “crafted” city
Ella Harris 173
Part Five : Technology, Innovation and Craft 185
17. Knitting and crochet as experiment: exploring social and material practices of computation and craft Gail Kenning and Jo Law 187
18. Towards new modes of knowledge production: makerspaces and emerging maker practices
Angelina Russo 198
19. The post digital: contemporary making and the allure of the genuine'
Keith Doyle, Hélène Day Fraser and Philip Robins 213
20. Crafting code: gender, coding and spatial hybridity in the events of PyLadies Dublin - Sophia Maalsen and Sung-Yueh Perng 223
Index 233