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Craft and Craftership
USI Lunch Seminar | 28 November 2024
Crafts and craftership are well valued as traditions, or as heritage. Yet there is potential for them to be better recognised as a contribution to ecological sustainability, offering small-scale, circular methods of production, and architectural approaches that bring us closer to nature.
In this seminar, Lara Schrijver and Bert De Munck will explore this potential from historical and architectural points of view, drawing on the TACK, Tracks4Crafts and Crafting Futures projects.
They will touch on the challenges for transmitting and sustaining the embodied, tacit knowledge that is essential for safeguarding craftership’s heritage value and expanding its place in a future-oriented perspective of sustainability. They will also explore the dichotomies that hold this back (heritage vs economic value, technology vs the organic, embodied vs theoretical knowledge). After the two short talks, participants will be encouraged to bring in other disciplinary perspectives on craftership and its value.
Practical details
- When: Thursday 28 November 2024, 12.30 - 2 p.m.
- Where: UAntwerp City Campus, room KS.103, Kattenstraat 10
- A vegetarian lunch is included.