Just What is it that Makes the Craft Object to Different, So Appealing?
Latest information on Consuming Craft - International Conference to be held
19 - 21 May 2000 at BCUC, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks UK
the following key aims:
To raise the level of critical debate by the application of
inter-disciplinary theories of consumption to the study of the crafts
To promote active international research, both empirical and theoretical,
into the reception of the craft object
To bridge theory and practice by inviting contributions from academics
makers and professionals involved in the mediation of craft
Themes
Craft and Identity
Craft Education
Cultures of Collecting
New Audiences
Craft Values in Product Design
Amateur Practice
Institutions of Craft
Supported by
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Faculty of Design
The Crafts Council
Design History Society
The Research Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum,
Southern Arts in association with MoMC, the initiative of Hampshire County
Council
to establish a Centre for Contemporary Crafts
Acco
Places are still available.
Full conference fee: £165
Members of Design History Society: £150
Special rate for makers/independent professionals/postgraduate students
without institutional support: £85
Conference fee includes reception Fri, and lunch and refreshments Fri-Sun
Conference Dinner (Sat 20th): £35 (places limited to 100 - early booking
advised)
Booking will be confirmed on receipt of payment.
Please check our website: www.consumingcraft.co.uk for a faxable booking
form and details on accommodation.
or contact Mel Brooks on [log in to unmask], tel. 01494 603048
[Updated 2/5/00 all details subject to change]
CONSUMING CRAFT
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Friday 19 May
11.00 Registration
11.30 - 12.00 Welcome, Ian Barker, Dean of BCUC
The MOMC Project, David Kay, Crafts Officer, Southern Arts.
Introduction, Kate McIntyre, Convenor, Consuming Craft
12.00 - 13.20 Lunch
Institutions of Craft
13.20 - 13.40 Prof. Jonathan Woodham,
Director, Design History Research Centre, University of Brighton
ŒPassing the Buck? The Council of Industrial Design and the Crafts¹
13.40 - 14.00 Jeremy Theophilus,
Senior Visual Arts Officer,
with lead responsibility for national crafts policy at theArts Council of
England
ŒInstitutions of Craft: locating the crafts in a new geography for visual
culture¹
14.00 - 14.20 Janet Barnes, Director, Crafts Council
Title tbc
14.20 - 14.40 Discussion
14.40 - 15.10 Tea/Coffee
15.10 - 15.40 Kate McIntyre, Convenor, Consuming Craft
ŒCraft and Consumerism: Just what is it that makes the Craft Object so
Different, so Appealing?¹
15.50
Coaches depart for London
16.45 - 17.45
Visit 'Three Decades', an exhibition on the Crafts Council Collection at the
London Institute Gallery, Davies Street.
Introduction by Amanda Fielding, Curator of the Crafts Council Collection.
18.30 - 20.00 Reception at the Crafts Council and Private Viewing of
'tectonic'
20.00 - 23.00 Free time. There is a wide selection of restaurants in
Islington.
The coaches will depart at 23.00. Map and details of 'pick-up' point in
conference pack.
Saturday 20 May
09.50 Introduction, Kate McIntyre
10.00 - 10.30 Dr. Colin Campbell,
University of York, author 'The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern
Consumerism'
ŒCulture, Craft and Consumption¹
10.30 - 11.00 Prof. Eugene Halton, University of Notre Dame,
co-author 'The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self'
ŒThe Art and Craft of Home¹
11.00 - 11.20 Discussion
11.20 Introduction to the Academic Sessions, Mel Brooks, Conference
Organiser
11.20 - 11.40 Coffee
11.40 - 13.00 Academic Session 1 (12 papers)
Identity
Lisa Norton, Chair, Graduate Division, Art Institute of Chicago
ŒA Plea for Individuation and Difference/Craft and Utility¹
Liz Lydiate, London College of Printing, The London Institute
ŒReceived buying In/Selling Out the identity crisis of the contemporary
maker¹
Janet Floyd, Cultural Studies Department, King Alfred's College, Winchester
ŒConsuming Quilts: the Display at the American Museum at Bath¹
National Identity
Philis Alvic, Independent,
ŒMarketing production Crafts: similarities between early 20th century
Appalachia and developing countries¹
Clare Fisher, University of Wales, ŒCrafting Wales¹
Ritva Koskennurmi-Sivonen,
Department of Home Economics and Craft Science, University of Helsinki
ŒA Reflection of Handcrafted Fashion in the Finnish Press¹
Amateur Practice
Jo Turney, Winchester School of Art,
ŒMaking it Better: Home Craft as Catharsis¹
Fiona Hackney, Independent,
ŒUse Your Hands for Happiness: Home and Housecraft in women¹s magazines¹
Prof. Julia Bettinotti and Marie-Francoise Truel
Département d'études littéraires, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada
ŒFrom Miss Marple to Alexander McQueen: the evolution of "granny-craft"
knitting
Cultures of Collecting
David Jeremiah, University of Plymouth,
ŒObjects of Trade¹
Frances Lord, Independent, ŒFetishism and the Crafts¹
Rob Burton, Margot Baird School of Textiles, Heriot Watt University
and Chrissie White, Glasgow School of Art
ŒThe Church of Scotland as patron of late C20th Visual Art, Craft and
Design¹
13.00 - 14.20 Lunch
14.20 - 14.50 Dr. Milena Lamarova,
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, author 'Signum Design - Czech Design
1980-1991'
ŒCraft and Czech National Identity¹
15.00 - 16.00 Academic Session 2 (8 papers)
Education
Claire Dean, Bradford College
ŒCraft and its Educational Role and Function in the Primary School
Curriculum¹
Kate Schofield and Lesley Burgess, Institute of Education
ŒCoining Craft: An action research project with Art and Design PGCE students
Craft Values in Product Design
Karen Yair, Design & Innovation Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
ŒThe contribution of crafts knowledge to design for evolving user
relationships¹
Mirja Kalvianinen, The Kuopio Academy of Crafts and Design, Finland
ŒThe experiential qualities of the crafted object¹
New Audiences
Jacqueline Yallop, Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust
Crafts with Cred: creating contexts for the next generation¹
Carol Littlefair, Hampshire County Museums Service
ŒMaking Contemporary Craft Accessible¹
Amateur Practice
Clive Edwards, Loughborough University
ŒSelf-expression or need? The creation and consumption of craft by women in
the 18th and 19th centuries
Greg Votolato, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
Do-It-Yourself in America
16.00 - 16.20 Tea/Coffee
16.20 - 16.50 Ronald Kuchta,
Editor, American Ceramics, former Director, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New
York
ŒCeramics and the US Art Market¹
16.50 - 17.20 Grayson Perry,
Artist
ŒFlogging Myself: a personal relationship with consumption¹
17.20 - 17.40 Discussion
Bar open from 17.30
20.00 - 22.00
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner extends the theme of consumption into the realm of
dining - using artefacts made in the BCUC studios and featuring a video of
Place SetTing, an installation by Peter Ting, Professor of Design at the
University of Central Lancashire
Sunday 21 May
10.00 - 11.20 Academic Session 3 (11 papers)
Identity
Prof. Peter Ting and Fiona Candy, University of Central Lancashire
ŒChoosing Lifestyles¹
Alison Shreeve, London College of Fashion, The London Institute
ŒFashioning Craft¹
Tony Howe and Patrick Dillon, University of Reading,
ŒCultural niche and the contexts of craft, design and fine art¹
New Audiences
Phillipa Aitken and Julian Malins,
Centre for Research in Art and Design, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen
ŒThe Global Gallery from studio to cyberspace¹
Jacqueline Jeynes, Independent,
ŒConsumer Motivations or Craft and the Entrepreneur¹
Griff Bond and Anoush Waddington, Independent,
ŒCreating Opportunities for Craftmanship"
Education
Anton Reijnders, European Ceramic Work Centre, s¹Hertogenbosch, The
Netherlands
ŒStimulating Developments¹
Maria Georgaki, Camberwell College of Arts, The London Institute
ŒTeaching the Modern: Assessing the Aesthetic and Educational role of the
Crafts in the ILEA/Camberwell Collection¹
Craft Values in Product Design
Penny Macbeth, University of Huddersfield,
ŒIdeas of Exchange¹
Mila Marlia School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University,
and Lily Wulandari,
ŒSpinning and Weaving the Wild Silkworm Cocoon using a "Green-Craft" concept
Stuart Walker, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary,
Canada
ŒWhen Worlds Collide: Craft Design, Mass Production and Sustainability¹
11.20 - 11.40 Coffee
11.40 - 12.10 Reyer Kras, Curator, Stedelijk Museum Industrial /
Designer, Aurelius, Amsterdam
ŒThe Firm Conference Dinner Project: craft objects as unique carriers of
meaning and function¹
12.10 - 12.40 Dr. Kevin Murray, Artistic Director, Craft Victoria,
Melbourne, Australia
ŒBack to Nowhere: Craft and the Open Source Movement¹
12.40 - 14.50 Lunch
14.00 - 14.30 Jane Adam, Jeweller
ŒUsing Craft: The Fulfilment of Potential¹
14.30 - 15.00 Prof. Ken Baynes, Gallery of the Future, Loughborough
University
ŒCraft Futures¹
15.00 - 15.30 Plenary
15.30 Conference Ends
