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The first Post Industrial Making Working Group meeting brings together researchers exploring possibilities and challenges in the intersection of traditional sloyd\/craft and digital design, between hi-tech and low-tech making.\u00a0Previous example projects include combining traditional and cultural woodcraft with digital laser cutting, and more technical explorations from architectural perspectives on making with recycled and living materials. Another focus is on contemporary subcultures of contemporary makers in relation to traditional crafts, framed as modes of sustainable, post-industrial design practice. The working group also brings attention to\u00a0tinkering<\/em>\u00a0as an investigative practice within the creative fields, ranging from hacking, coding, circuit-bending, and bricolage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Nordic context sloyd traditions embody a specific form of cultural heritage encompassing particular materials and techniques. Research in this working group spans all creative disciplines and works together to publish research articles, conduct hands-on workshops, and exhibitions. Examples include post-industrial approaches to high tech design, new sustainable forms and materials for architecture, traditional woodworking supported by digital fabrication tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like to Join? Please contact working group chair Ylva Fernaeus <\/a> Associate Professor at Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design, and Deputy Director of UmArts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first Post Industrial Making Working Group meeting brings together researchers exploring possibilities and challenges in the intersection of traditional sloyd\/craft and digital design, between hi-tech and low-tech making.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1609,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[61],"tags":[],"people":[77,194,135,134,176,100,87,79,133],"class_list":["post-1608","programme","type-programme","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-working-group","people-cindy-kohtala","people-contanze-hirt","people-elena-vazquez","people-julio-diarte","people-lotta-lundstedt","people-rickard-astrom","people-rob-collins","people-sara-rylander","people-ylva-fernaeus"],"acf":{"related_svp":[{"ID":772,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2024-11-01 17:00:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-01 16:00:43","post_content":"\n

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This collaborative design research project uses speculative critical making to create miniature dioaramas of utopian maker spaces to re-examine field work in fab labs, makerspaces, hacklabs, hackerspaces and DIYbio labs in a new way, thinking through their narratives, visions, discourses, utopias and anti-utopias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Makers and hackers encourage others to actively participate in locally relevant and socially good design and production. Their narratives envision replacing empty consumerism with more empowering, creative, circular, democratic and community-based production in shared workshops, according to local needs, materials and resources. Nevertheless, maker culture is often seen as techno-utopian, and even the solarpunk visions and experiments by ecologically oriented maker communities are seen as too little in the face of climate crisis, hypercapitalism and the sixth mass extinction. In this project we explore the material, aesthetic, technical and conceptual dimensions of maker culture futures, through the creation of miniature dioramas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is a collaboration between the Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design (UID) and the Department of Creative Studies, including a collaboration between workshops (Sloydlab and UID\u2019s Interaction Lab), and an exploration of craft making and speculative design as research. Research partners include: Cindy Kohtala, Professor of Design for Sustainability, UID; Rickard \u00c5str\u00f6m, Research engineer, Interaction Lab, Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design; Sara Rylander, Lecturer, Sloydlab, Department of Creative Studies; Magnus Wink, universitetsadjunkt, Sloydlab, Department of Creative Studies.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Maker Utopias","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cindy-kohtala-maker-utopias","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-09 09:23:33","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-09 08:23:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=visionary_projects&p=772","menu_order":0,"post_type":"visionary_projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":71,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-08-06 15:42:01","post_date_gmt":"2021-08-06 13:42:01","post_content":"\n

The project idea stems from our joint background as craftswomen, Sloyd teachers, teacher educators and PhD:s Crafting Revisited is a project aiming to develop and try out a functional and cross-disciplinary based methodological framework, which utilizes opportunities for development of new craft knowledge in the meeting between artistic research and educational science. With revisiting craft \u00c5sa Jeansson & Stina Westerlund refer to a return to their own craftmanship and to the use of the textile medium and its mode of expression as a way to articulate, document and communicate research results. Specifically, the project is about how craft knowledge is mastered when traditional craft meets new digital tools, i.e. the transformation of knowledge from being skilled in hand embroidery to technically and creatively master digital embroidery machines and software. Material explorations, artefacts and the practical work in collaborative craft processes will be video documented and analysed together with a cross-disciplinary reference group to support new perspectives in artistic and scientific research.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Crafting Revisited","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"crafting-revisited","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-16 11:39:19","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-16 10:39:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=visionary_projects&p=71","menu_order":0,"post_type":"visionary_projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":60,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2023-05-07 22:37:18","post_date_gmt":"2023-05-07 20:37:18","post_content":"\n

Working across design, psychology and mathematics, \u2018How I becomes We\u2019 experiments with new forms of networked social interaction. The experiences of social distancing and vast use of online-communication has put focus on the digital experience of \u2018we\u2019, the sense of togetherness in close and psychologically intimate interaction online. A several scientific disciplines are taking steps towards complexities, networks and AI-methods that allow for uncertainty, this international and interdisciplinary venture has great need for explorations based on methods and aims within artistic research, mainly how the \u2018we\u2019 emerges and can be brought to different expressions by adjusting the digital systems that connect people. We will develop a prototype interactive installation for artistic research allowing researchers and the public to experience forms of social and physiological connection through digital interaction. The project will encourage artistic researchers to contribute to and make use of these tools for co-constructing digital intersubjectivity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Team: Niclas Kaiser<\/strong>, PhD. Associate Professor at Department of Psychology, Ume\u00e5 University, David Risberg<\/strong>, research engineer, Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design, Eric Libby<\/strong>, PhD. Associate Professor at IceLab and Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Ume\u00e5 University. Performances with Gabriel Bohm Calles, Academy of Fine Art, Ume\u00e5 University.<\/p>\n","post_title":"How I becomes We","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-i-becomes-we","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-09-21 08:53:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-09-21 06:53:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=visionary_projects&p=60","menu_order":0,"post_type":"visionary_projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":780,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2024-01-25 15:54:00","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 14:54:00","post_content":"\n

\u2018Pushing the limits of craft\u2019 explores the possibilities and challenges that exist between the intersection of traditional sloyd\/craft and digital design, between hi-tech and low-tech making. By combining traditional and cultural woodcraft with digital laser cutting tools for design, the project aims to expand and explore the possibilities of expressing oneself through craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sloyd can be considered a system of craft education and is taught as a compulsory subject in Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian schools. In this regard, Nordic sloyd traditions embody a form of cultural heritage encompassing specific materials and techniques. The research addresses the potential loss of this cultural identity which is both imminent and preventable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tradition of sloyd emerges from intuitive work between the creator and the material, as form of tacit knowledge, which evolves with new tools overtime whilst maintaining cultural traditions. Rylander is interested in the potential role and significance of digital tools in craft practice, both in terms of new aesthetic possibilities and how the creative use of these tools challenges the concept of the \u2018handmade\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project will be presented at the Relate North Conference at Ume\u00e5 University 2023.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Pushing the Limits of Craft","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pushing-the-limits-of-craft","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-02-23 15:15:58","post_modified_gmt":"2024-02-23 14:15:58","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=visionary_projects&p=780","menu_order":0,"post_type":"visionary_projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"related_wg":[{"ID":1524,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2025-01-23 16:08:19","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-23 15:08:19","post_content":"\n

This group brings together researchers exploring possibilities and challenges in the intersection of traditional sloyd\/craft and digital design, between hi-tech and low-tech making. Previous example projects include combining traditional and cultural woodcraft with digital laser cutting, and more technical explorations from architectural perspectives on making with recycled and living materials. Another focus is on contemporary subcultures of contemporary makers in relation to traditional crafts, framed as modes of sustainable, post-industrial design practice. The working group also brings attention to tinkering<\/em> as an investigative practice within the creative fields, ranging from hacking, coding, circuit-bending, and bricolage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Nordic context sloyd traditions embody a specific form of cultural heritage encompassing particular materials and techniques. Research in this working group spans all creative disciplines and works together to publish research articles, conduct hands-on workshops, and exhibitions. Examples include post-industrial approaches to high tech design, new sustainable forms and materials for architecture, traditional woodworking supported by digital fabrication tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Post Industrial Making Group is chaired by Ylva Fernaeus, Associate Professor at Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design, and Deputy Director of UmArts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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