Journal for Crafts & Design
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Christina Christensen. Photo Dorte Krogh.
Foreword

Sustainable manufacturing now!

Does it even make sense to create new products in a world where mountains of waste shape landscapes and the planet’s resources are exhausted by February? Humanity faces massive challenges to preserve the planet as more and more people have the opportunity to join the consumption party. Denmark is particularly weak on SDG 12: responsible consumption and production – a crucial SDG in the effort for a better climate. It is imperative that something must be done now to reduce the consequences of overconsumption and fast fashion.

07-05-2024
Author: red.

With their unique knowledge of materials and production, craft artists and designers can play an important role in rethinking consumption – and reducing the climate footprint.

New aesthetic expressions are created from broken bricks, intestines are transformed into lamps and recycled glass into beautiful vases. Exciting new collaborations are emerging between crafts, architecture, design and industry.

Green Craft & Design Guide
Optimizing green solutions is being worked on at all levels of cultural life, but there is a lack of a unifying forum where knowledge is shared openly across the craft and design community.

Together with the Danish Institute for Cultural Studies and the Danish Design Center, Danish Craft & Design Association wants to qualify the debate on a sustainable production culture and launch a unifying effort for the craft and design field with a ‘Green Craft & Design Guide’.

Formkraft is kick-starting the project by highlighting various issues and potentials that come with sustainable production and materials.

The thematic publication offers insights into rules and politics, philosophy, current research projects and exciting cases.

We start the debate now. Follow along and contribute your thoughts on Formkraft’s social media channels.

You can also read the theme: Durability

Facts

Green Craft & Design Guide will be an open source digital platform that reaches out to the consumer and brings together the craft and design field to produce more environmentally friendly.
The initiative is 1 of 5 supported projects under the Danish Arts Foundation’s new initiative “Craft and design sets the agenda”.
Green Craft & Design Guide is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and the Augustinus Foundation.

Further reading

Photo: Christina Christensen, dandelion

Christina Christensen, dandelion

 

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Craft and design – a velvet revolution?

Craft maker and designer Helle Graabæk discusses the competencies that are developed through a craft and design practice and reflects on the capacity of craft and design to drive transformation in a time with an abundance of products but a lack of quality and sensuous qualities and sensibilities. She takes her point of departure at Design School Kolding (DSKD), where she is a teaching associate professor and thus has first-hand insight into the mindset of the new craft makers and designers. At the school, the new generation of makers and designers generate new potentials for the textile field that we can all learn from.

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Maria Viftrup, Geofuturistisk Eksperiment
Photo: Martin Kristensen

The durable, the quick and the tragically everlasting

How do we move away from the huge amounts of garbage and waste that are such a characteristic feature of our time? How do we rediscover the practice of caring for things that was a natural part of life for previous generations?

Read article by journalist and writer Heidi Laura

Annelie Grimwade Olofsson, Wasteland, 2020
Photo: Ida Buus