Design, Craft and Culture

The project wants to explore the traditional, small-scale textile and craft opportunities for developing new product identities, new design and marketing of these.

Description

How can silence, action-cage professionals and research skills together to create, innovate and market products? There is a discussion on Textile School i Borås that there is a hidden resource in the tacit knowledge and the spontaneous creativity of craftsmen who rarely or never being reflected in new, economically viable products. We are convinced that these humanist / aesthetic values must have a scientific review and documentation. We want to achieve that with a co-production between the humanistic / aesthetic researchers and entrepreneurs with a still living craft practice based on a personalized, action-borne knowledge.

Link to the research project's website

Project manager

Strömberg, Lars G, Biträdande projektledare Christer Ahlberger, Göteborgs universitet

Subjects

Design
Design management

Research areas

Textiles and fashion (Design)

Researchers

Berggren Torell, Viveka
Knuts, Eva
Strömberg, Lars G

Financiers

The Knowledge Foundation

Partners

designbrenner
University of Gothenburg
Vävkompaniet

Diary number

1102-09-62

Start date

2010-01-02

End date

2012-12-31