With their presence in the public space, decorative projects, art installations and building-integrated art can expose a wide audience to art and culture in everyday settings. With this current theme, Formkraft focuses on the atmosphere that crafts can bring to the public space by virtue of its inherent material culture, techniques and aesthetics. And why it is more relevant than ever to include craft makers and designers when state-owned buildings are renovated, when municipalities develop decorative projects and when private actors seek to imbue the modern city with soul and sensuous qualities.
Crafts rely on the traditional knowledge of making where the human hand is preferred over the industrial process. Is there room for craftsmanship and material-based interpretation in the built environment? Can industrial processes learn something essential from crafts and from artists’ way of thinking?
