Collaboration Through Craft

Offering a challenging new argument for the collaborative power of craft, this ground-breaking volume analyses the philosophies, politics and practicalities of collaborative craft work.

The book is accessibly organised into four sections covering the cooperation and compromises required by the collaborative process; the potential of recent technological advances for the field of craft; the implications of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations for authority and ownership; and the impact of crafted collaborations on the institutions where we work, learn and teach.

With cutting-edge essays by established makers and artists such as Allison Smith (US) and Brass Art (UK), curator Lesley Millar, textile designer Trish Belford and distinguished thinker Glenn Adamson, Collaborating Through Craft will be essential reading for students, artists, makers, curators and scholars across a number of fields.

Amanda Ravetz is Senior Research Fellow at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Alice Kettle is Senior Research Fellow at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Helen Felcey is Programme Leader for MA Design at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

CONTENTS
1. Collaboration through Craft: an introduction
Amanda Ravetz, Alice Kettle and Helen Felcey
Part 1: Modes of collaborating
2. Collaboration: a creative journey or a means to an end?
Lesley Millar
3. Making anew...collaboration and dynamic change
Helen Carnac
4. Triangulation theory, working as three
Jane Webb, David Gates, Alice Kettle
5. The creation of a collective voice
Brass Art: Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz, Anneké Pettican
Part 2: The generative power of craft
6. Catalytic Clothing and Tactility Factory: crafted collaborative connections
Trish Belford
7. The aesthetic of waste: exploring the creative potential of re-cycled ceramic waste
David Binns
8. Designing collaboration: evoking Dr Johnson through craft and interdisciplinarity
Jason Cleverly, Tim Shear
9. Skinship: an exchange of material understanding between plastic surgery and pattern cutting
Rhian Solomon
Part 3: Institutional collaborations
10. Department 21: the craft of discomfort
Stephen Knott
11. Skills in the making
Simon Taylor, Rachel Payne
12. Project dialogue
Barbara Hawkins and Brett Wilson
13. A question of value: re-thinking the Mary Greg Collection
Sharon Blakey and Liz Mitchell
Part 4: Collaboration in an emerging world
14. Expanded battle fields
Allison Smith
15. Crafts and the contemporary in South Asia
Barney Hare Duke & Jeremy Theophilus
16. Circling back into that thing we cast forward
Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton
17. Craft knowledge and the craft of human life: a South Asian residency
Cj O'Neill and Amanda Ravetz
18. Epilogue : A response
Glenn Adamson