StineBidstrup_ Biennalen for Kunsthåndværk & Design 2021. Fotograf Dorte Krogh

Theme:
Craft in a digital age

This issue of Formkraft aligns with the theme of the conference, Craft in a digital age, following up through interviews and articles.

Additional essays add new perspectives. Anne Louise Bang looks into how design schools incorporate digital technology coupled with material studies. Helle Graabæk reflects on the competences that are developed through crafts.

Articles on this theme are published in January – February – March

Photo credit: Stine Bidstrup. Biennalen for Kunsthåndværk & Design 2021. Photography by Dorte Krogh.

Editorial

‘Superusers’ in between digital and material spheres?

By Anders V. Munch, dr.phil., ph.d., cand.mag. in history of ideas and art history

Which opportunities and consequences does the digitalization of society have for our material understanding? Consumers simply do not see the physical and social consequences, environmental impact and waste of manufacturing and thus lose the ability to choose the highest quality and most necessary products. "We need craft makers and designers to act as ‘superusers’ of craft and technology in combination."

Stine Bidstrup. Biennalen for Kunsthåndværk & Design 2021. Fotograf Dorte Krogh.

Articles

Abstract_ af Bjørn Karmann, interaktionsdesigner, Julie Helles Eriksen, beklædningsdesigner og Kristine Boesen, tekstildesigner

Pixels, algorithms and crafts

By Anne Louise Bang, Senior Associate Professor, PhD

The hand behind it all

By Heidi Laura, journalist, writer and PhD

Maria Viftrup

Craft and design – a velvet revolution?

By Helle Graabæk, teaching associate professor and manager of the textile programme at Design School Kolding

Interview

Rethinking education – and craft

By Heidi Laura,PhD, writer and journalist

Interview with Tim Ingold Imagine education without any division between crafts and academic learning. Or how about seeing craft as poetry, whether it is expressed materially, verbally or digitally? These are some of the new ways the anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to think about education and craft. Or as he says: ‘Craft is a way of finding one’s own voice through making things together. But it’s no different with mathematics, history or geography.’

Artisan: King Houndekpinkou In his atelier Ceramicist PARIS, FRANCE