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Title Craftwork as problem solving : ethnographic studies of design and making / edited by Trevor H.J. Marchand
Published London [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations
Series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
Anthropological studies of creativity and perception.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: Craftwork as Problem Solving; PART I: PRACTICAL PROBLEM SOLVINGIN CRAFT; 1 The Prototype: Problem Work in the Relationship Between Designer, Artist, and Gaffer in Glassblowing; 2 Producing Suffolk Punch Horses: Craftsmanship with Sentient Media; 3 Making 'Sense' in the Bike Mechanic's Workshop; 4 Crafting Solutions on the Cutting Edge of Digital Videography; 5 Mastering Mimicry: Strategies of Transference in Print-Based Art
6 From 'In Our Houses' to 'The Tool at Hand': Breaching Normal Procedural Conditions in Studio Furniture Making7 Weaving Solutions to Woven Problems; PART II: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND PHILOSOPHICAL DIMENSIONS IN THE PROBLEMS OF CRAFTWORK; 8 Social Strategies and Material Fixes in Agotime Weaving; 9 Feeling a Way Through: Affective Problem Solving in Dressmaking; 10 Thinking through Materials: Embodied Problem Solving and the Values of Work in Taiwanese Ceramics; 11 The Problem of the Unknown Craftsman; 12 The Place of Craft in Building Conservation: The Craftsperson as Problem-Solver and Builder
13 'Textile Thinking': A Flexible, Connective Strategy for Conceptg Eneration and Problem Solving in Interdisciplinary ContextsAfterword; Index
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Artisans.
Creative ability.
Design.
Industrial design.
Problem solving.
Product design.
craftsmen.
creativity.
industrial design.
design (discipline)
Artisans
Creative ability
Design
Industrial design
Problem solving
Product design
Form Electronic book
Author Marchand, Trevor Hugh James, editor
ISBN 9781134802227
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