TALKING CRAFTS AND OTHER STORIES

In a globalised world, craft practices are constantly shifting while their evolving nature often defies categorisation. In different times and places, under the influence of different historical and political events, people attribute different values to the handmade. Crafting might be seen as a resistance against mass-production, an appreciated escape from the digital or a rekindling with local knowledge.

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