Craftwork as Problem Solving: Ethnographic Studies of Design and MakingProfessor Trevor H J Marchand Presenting rich, textured ethnographic studies of craftspeople at work around the world, Craftwork as Problem Solving examines the intelligent practices involved in solving a variety of problems and the ways in which these are perceived and evaluated both by makers and creators themselves, and by the societies in which they work. With attention to local factors such as training regimes and formal education, access to tools, socialisation and cultural understanding, budgetary constraints and market demands, changing technologies and materials, and political and economic regimes, this book sheds fresh light on the multifarious forms of intelligence involved in design and making, inventing and manufacturing, and cultivating and producing. |
Contents
Problem work in the relationship between | 33 |
Craftsmanship with sentient | 51 |
making sense in the bike mechanics workshop | 71 |
Crafting solutions on the Cutting edge of Digital videography | 87 |
breaching normal | 115 |
weaving solutions to woven Problems | 133 |
SoCIaL eConomIC anD PhILoSoPhICaL | 151 |
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