Design through making: crafts knowledge as facilitator to collaborative new product development
✍ Scribed by Karen Yair; Anne Tomes; Mike Press
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 542 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0142-694X
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✦ Synopsis
T his paper concerns applications for crafts knowledge to design for industry. Despite theoretical advocation for increased collaboration between craft makers and manufacturers, empirical research has previously been limited to anecdotal narrative. The aim of this paper is to offset this imbalance by documenting an example of best practice, examining the nature of expertise derived from crafts knowledge and its effect on both design process and product.
Assertions of the value of crafts knowledge to design centred, until recently, on upholding standards essentially derived from the Arts and Crafts Movement's commitment to integrity and workmanship. Leach 1 , for example, criticised manufacturers for designing without consideration for their own materials and processes. He envisaged an alliance with craft