Browsing by Subject "Craft"
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Collaborative Craft Laboratory in Euljiro, Seoul
(2022-04-14)The small-scale craft-based manufacturing district, Euljiro, in the historic area of Seoul, South Korea, is facing insensitive redevelopment and gentrification. Despite the multiple attempts to revive the industry, the ... -
The Collins Farm: Grassland Management, Shepherding, and Textile Production in Nova Scotia, 1767-1829
(2023-07-27)Louisa Collins, the daughter of a farmer living in rural Nova Scotia at the turn of the 19th-century, kept a diary during the summer, fall and winter of 1815 to 1816, which gives a window into the world of pre-industrial, ... -
Kizuna: Reconnecting Machiya and Craft Traditions in Kyoto
(2024-08-19)Kizuna means “connection” in Japanese, implying that everything is inextricably connected. In Kyoto’s Nishijin district, traditional craft and machiya townhouses share an uncertain fate — one where they might disappear ... -
Learning from Land: Interweaving Traditions of Making along the Blue Nile
(2023-07-16)In Sudan, practices of agroforestry once created closed-loop cycles of production that harmoniously linked landscape, agriculture, craft, and architecture. However, these practices have largely been wiped out by past ... -
Quilting Urban Fabric: Imagining Patchwork Quilting as an Architectural Methodology for Sustainability and Collective Care
(2022-07-28)As a tradition of making that is both material and social, patchwork quilting is a practice of domestic craft with meaningful potential to inform architectural and urban design in the interest of cultural, environmental, ...