Craft Shaping Society: Educating in the Crafts—The Global Experience. Book One

Lindy Joubert

May 2022 · Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects Book 35 · Springer Nature

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This book focusses on the role of craft as a continuing cultural practice and the revival of disappearing skills in contemporary society. It includes twenty-five essays by highly regarded artisans, academics, technologists, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, curators, and researchers from many countries representing a wide range of global craft traditions and innovations.

The authors explain their professional practices and creative pathways with knowledge, experience, and passion. They offer insightful analyses of their traditions within their culture and in the marketplace, alongside the evolution of technology as it adapts to support experimentation and business strategies. They write about teaching and research informing their practice; and they explain the importance of their tools and materials in function and form of the objects they make. The essays reveal a poignant expression of their successes, disappointments, and opportunities.

This book offers case studies of how artisans have harnessed the traditions of the past alongside the latest design technologies. The authors reveal how global craft is not only a vehicle for self-expression and creativity, but also for being deeply relevant to the world of work, community and environmental sustainability. The book makes the vital link between skills, knowledge, education, and employment, and fills a much-needed niche in Technical, Vocational Education and Training TVET.

About the author

Lindy Joubert was a senior lecturer in Architecture at the University of Melbourne for 28 years (semi-retired 2020 and now Senior Fellow). Lindy’s academic activities are action-based research with collaborative partners. With student and professional groups, Lindy organised the concept design and development across 12 countries for education, health and cultural facilities and structures, including the Cook Islands; Mua Island, Torres Strait; Papua New Guinea; Gichocho, Kenya and for the Maasai Kenya. ‘Samiland’ for the Sami people in Finnish Lapland; the Tiwi Islands; Auroville, India; Los Palos cultural Centre, East Timor (Community Development Vice Chancellor’s Award and over one million dollars in funding granted in partnership with NGO). Lindy has had forty national and international exhibitions of paintings, six in New York City. She is the editor-in-chief of the UNESCO Observatory peer reviewed e-journal; an editor of the UNESCO Observatory Global Village Reading Series for Kidz Book Hub; writes and presents research papers and her edited book Educating in the Arts – the Asian Experience, Twenty-four essays is published by Springer and currently preparing six sequels: Educating in the Crafts – the Global Experience.

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