Craft
This note is about the notion of craft.
Related: Creativity, Expertise, Knowledge, Work, tacit knowledge, intangible knowledge.
Craft as a communal and cultural expression
Craft in software engineering
Craft as an object of study
Definitions
Craftsmanship is the ability to produce good work.
Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Nonhuman Craft
Nonhuman species can craft and use tools.
Hunt, Gavin R., and Russell D. Gray. ‘The Crafting of Hook Tools by Wild New Caledonian Crows’. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 271, no. suppl_3 (2004): S88–90. https://doi.org/10/cpb2dt.
Shumaker, Robert W., Kristina R. Walkup, and Benjamin B. Beck. Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals. Revised and Updated. 1980. Reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
References
Luckman, Susan. Craft and the Creative Economy. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Sennett, Richard. The Craftsman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
For an overview and perspectives on human craft:
Bell, Emma, Gianluigi Mangia, and Scott D. Taylor, eds. The Organization of Craft Work: Identities, Meanings and Materiality. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Bell, Emma, M. Tina Dacin, and Maria Laura Toraldo. “Craft Imaginaries: Past, Present and Future.” Organization Theory 2, no. 1 (2021): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/2631787721991141.
Practice theory, embodied nature of craftsmanship:
Mellegård, Viveca, and Wiebren J. Boonstra. ‘Craftsmanship as a Carrier of Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge: Photographic Insights from Sámi Duodji and Archipelago Fishing’. Society & Natural Resources 33, no. 10 (2020): 1252–72. https://doi.org/10/gjdstw.
Feminist and new materialist interpretation:
Gruwell, Leigh. Making Matters: Craft, Ethics, and New Materialist Rhetorics. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2022.
On software craftsmanship, a technical review:
Sundelin, Anders, Javier Gonzalez-huerta, Krzysztof Wnuk, and Tony Gorschek. ‘Towards an Anatomy of Software Craftsmanship’. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 31, no. 1 (2021): 6:1-6:49. https://doi.org/10/gmzgj3.
Diverse and informal economies:
Gibson-Graham, J. K. A Postcapitalist Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Gibson-Graham, J. K. ‘Diverse Economies: Performative Practices for `Other Worlds’’. Progress in Human Geography 32, no. 5 (2008): 613–32. https://doi.org/10/cwxkm8.
On cumulative technological culture:
Osiurak, François, and Emanuelle Reynaud. ‘The Elephant in the Room: What Matters Cognitively in Cumulative Technological Culture’. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43 (2020). https://doi.org/10/ggdcnw.
also:
Frayling, Christopher. On Craftsmanship: Towards a New Bauhaus. London: Oberon Books, 2011.
Communities and Sources
Experiential Knowledge Special Interest Group of DRS
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