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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969, et al.
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Conservation Theory for Enhanced Craft Practice
- 2016
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Ingår i: Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions – Anamnesis, diagnosis, therapy, controls. Van Balen & Verstrynge (eds.). - London : Taylor & Francis Group. - 9781138029514
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To improve conservation practice, heritage conservation as a professional field needs to gain a better understanding of how different forms of expertise and skill coalesce in their material interventions in heritage objects (Jones & Jarrow 2014). Among the actors involved in conservation, the craftsman is the one who spends most time on site, close to the source material, and whose innumerable decisions have the greatest impact on the final result (Almevik 2016). Nevertheless, the craftsman is often reduced to a means of production, and is thus detached from the historical inquiry, the design and the structural analysis. This inconsistency is poorly explored in previous research. Taking off from a case of heritage conservation of a medieval corner-timbered tithe barn, this paper explores what an enhancement of craftsmanship in the conservation process implicates in terms of conservation theory. The questions for this paper are: How may craftsmanship be enhanced in the conservation process? What does augmented involvement of craftsmen implicates in terms of conservation theory? Furthermore, arguing that contemporary heritage conservation has to take on a community-based approach to support local heritage values: How may craftsmanship be used in participatory and community-based methods? The research questions have been investigated through the conservation of a 13th century corner-timbered tithe barn in Ingatorp, Sweden. Until recently the barn was an anonymous building used for storage of equipment. A dendrochronological analysis dated the building to 1229±10 years. This makes the tithe barn the second oldest preserved wooden building in Sweden. The research method is practice-led and experiential, using the restoration prac-tice as an arena for inquiry and the methods of practice as methods of inquiry (Almevik & Melin 2015). Concepts and perspectives are influenced by semiotic pragmatism and environmental dynamics and focused on contemporary theory of conservation (Sully 2015, Silberman 2015). The research reveals how the craftsmen’s perception contribute to the forensic building investigation to outline of a buildings history and to obtain a thorough understanding of the structural behaviour of the built cultural heritage. The conclusion underpinned by theoretical inquiry and experimentation in this case is that it is possible to enhance craft practice in all steps of the conservation process, and that doing so is productive in regard of aesthetic, historic, scientific and social heritage values.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Craft Laboratory
- 2014
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Ingår i: Arts & Crafts & Design. ; , s. 90-93
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Craft Laboratory: modeling of practice-led research, sharing and capacity building to sustain heritage crafts
- 2014
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Ingår i: Association of Critical Heritage Studies Second biannual Conference, Canberra, 2-4th December 2014 Session Crafting Athenticity.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2011 Sweden ratified the UNESCO’s Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage. The decision is part of a political cultural agenda to better attend to initiatives from non-governmental organisations, promoting the creative economy and involve the civil society in cultural heritage protection and management. However, this emergence of a new heritage discourse coincides with a general neoliberal practice to laissez-faire matters of heritage and disassembling of the professional sphere, leaving the local communities and communities of interest with little but encouraging words. An important question in this context is, by what design can public allocation of recourses and involvement of expertise support fragile communities and still withholding a bottoms-up perspective in their ways of doing? This paper presents and reflects upon an attempt to manage intangible heritage protection from a bottoms-up perspective. The case is the Craft Laboratory, intended as a tool to elicit the intangible heritage of craftsmanship in the creation of cultural spaces and protection and management of historic monuments and sites. The laboratory was established in 2010 by University of Gothenburg in co-operation with both governmental and non-governmental heritage organisations, craft enterprises and trade organisations. The operational agenda is developed in continuing dialogue-seminars with stakeholders in craft communities. The call from the many times isolated craftspersons and fragile communities are congregation, sharing of experiences and support to develop new skills. The voices are radically contradicting the traditional notion of the ‘guild spirit’ within craft production. The Craft Laboratory has in cooperation with the communities of interest developed methods for capacity building, sharing and skill development. Examples of activities are enterprise networks, practice sharing in workshops and ‘open-restorations’, formats for master-classes, consensus seminars on good practices, film records and craft protocols for documentation, and practice-based craft research scholarship. The modelling of the Craft Laboratory is presented in theoretical light of heritage enactivism, people or community based-conservation and how to negotiate authenticity and find eligible ways of expanding traditional processes to make them sustainable in contemporary society. The examples of actions are problematized in regard of how to protect, transmit and share the embodied practices in heritage crafts.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969, et al.
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Crafting film instructions: e-learning in craft education
- 2019
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Ingår i: Make and learn, Nordic Research Conference in Sloyd, September 17-20, 2019, Gothenburg.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Academisation concerns the phenomenon where vocational and practice-oriented fields enter higher education, but also the fact that higher education in general becomes more firmly directed towards scholar competences and research. The ongoing academisation have put pressure on craft educations to develop more efficient pedagogical approaches to hands on skills-acquisition. This paper elaborate on combinations of film instruction and face-to-face learning to augment both hands-on skills and analytical attitudes in crafts. The paper reviews the research field and reflects on own experiences in the use of e-learning and filmed instructions in craft education. The research material consist of own production of film instructions and assessment of pedagogical uses in craft education in graduate courses. The research question is how e-learning can be used in craft education to complement and gear up the efficiency of face-to-face instruction? The preliminary result points at the need to develop a variety of genres of instructions. Filmed instructions need to be declared in terms of learning outcomes and constructively linked to other pedagogical formats of a course curriculum.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Det forensiska perspektivet. Hantverkarens dokumentation i kulturmiljövården
- 2017
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Ingår i: Hantverksvetenskap. - Mariestad : Göteborgs universitet, Hantverkslaboratoriet. - 9789198397420
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hantverkskunskaper omtalas ofta i termer av material och metoder. Den kunnige målaren har djupgående kunskaper om materialens egenskaper så som pigment, bindemedel och tillsatser men också om metoderna att riva pigment, pigmentera, blanda färgen och bemåla ytorna. Att beskriva ett pigment eller ett recept vägleds av konventioner. Det finns en terminologi och sätt att väga och vikta materialen. Men hur beskrivs själva görandet? Hur förmedlas de många situationsspecifika kvalitetsbedömningarna som görs med hänsyn till samverkande effekter av bindemedlets egenskaper, pigmentet, vattnet, underlaget, klimatet och den önskade ytan? Den här texten handlar om metoder för dokumentation och undersökning inom kulturmiljövården med huvudsakligt fokus på byggnadsvård.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Det osynliga arbetet : The invisible work of the craftsman
- 2006
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Ingår i: Som gjort, så sagt? Yrkeskunnskap og yrkeskompetanse. Högskolen i Akershus forskningsserie. - 1501-6064. ; :13/2006, s. 84-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Det är farligt enkelt att förbise det avancerade kunskapsinnehållet i ett arbete, att fälla omdömen om vad som är eller inte är en komplicerad arbetsprocess, när man inte själv kan. Forskning om hantverk utförs sällan av hantverkare och uppmärksamheten fastnar då lätt i kunskapsteoretiska resonemang. Hantverkens egna ämnesteorier och ämnespraktiker förbises eller reduceras till någonting antingen mystiskt eller banalt. Inom teknologi och materialvetenskap bedrivs forskning om material och processer, som olika hantverksyrken hanterar i sitt dagliga arbete. Istället för att involvera hantverkare som medaktörer, glöms de helt enkelt bort eller görs till anonyma objekt. I den här artikeln riktas uppmärksamheten mot de ojämlika villkor som hantverkskunskaperna verkar under, samt möjligheterna att åtgärda dessa. Texten argumenterar för en utveckling av hantverksvetenskaper till stöd för hantverksyrken. Det krävs enligt min mening forskning i hantverkens egna ämnesteorier och metoder.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Det sydgötiska husets (vetenskapliga) konstruktion : The (Scientific) Construction of a Vernacular House "Sydgötiska Huset"
- 2004
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Ingår i: RIG Kulturhistorisk tidskrift. - 0035-5267. ; :4:2004, s. 193-209
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The sydgötiska huset (South Gothic house) is by far one of the most acknowledged traditional building types within building history from the early period of ethnology and history of vernacular architecture. The name sydgötiska huset is a literary construction proposed by the scholar Sigurd Erixon (1917). Characteristic of the type, as he presented it, is a house-complex including one or two storage houses with a loft added on each side of and rising above a single one story room cottage. Det sydgötiska huset takes a central part in presentations of Swedish vernacular architecture, as an object and a representation of medieval building traditions and a kind of mending of various natural and cultural phenomena in a borderline region within Southern Scandinavia. The aim of this article is to analyse the construction of the South Gothic house as research object within the disciplines of ethnology and history of vernacular architecture. A selection of publications that present this building type serves as material for this study. The article focusing the kind of significant characteristics the historians attach to this typology: how it is built, how old it is, why it looks the way it does, where it comes from and how it has developed. Their different versions reveal how significant characteristics and explanations have been added or/and removed along with an ongoing reproduction of this building type. The concluding remarks focus on differences and similarities between discourses in the publications analysed. Some consequences and alternatives are put forward to the methods in history of vernacular architecture and the story of the sydgötiska huset.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Documentation of traditional craftsmanship - from archive to living heritage
- 2012
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Ingår i: Association of Critical Heritage Studies. ”Re/theorising heritage” 12.06.05-09, Gothenburg.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Traditional craftsmanship is a specified domain in UNESCO’s Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage. During the 20th century, Swedish museums and archives collected artefacts and documents referring to threatened or dying crafts. Documentation methods did not focus on transmitting skills as living heritage. This paper sets out from the idea that safeguarding of traditional crafts must involve the transmitting of craft skills through learning in action. Market demands and educational system used to guarantee this transmission but today, maintenance and development of traditional crafts need involvement from heritage institutions. In order to support employment and education sectors in the assimilation of traditional crafts, heritage institutions are in need of a methodology that corresponds to the ontology of intangible cultural heritage. This paper deals with the documentation of traditional crafts concerning built environment. More specifically, it discusses the problem of externalisation of tacit craft knowledge for the sake of educating specialists and developing research. The goal is to find ways to minimize the loss of meaning and content in the process of externalization and re-practicing from theories and representations. The paper is based on a series of documentation projects run by the Craft-laboratory, University of Gothenburg, which also include qualitative interviews performed with and by highly specialised craftspersons in different contexts. The theoretical platform is given by M. Polany and his concepts of tacit and focal knowledge, the methodological perspective is built upon research by inter alia B. Ehn, B. Rolf, P. Sjömar and N. Wood. The paper presents and reflects upon how heritage institutions can set up and perform documentation in crafts. The results involve interpretations of epistemological concepts of crafting knowledge, setting out from a craftsperson’s methodological perspective. A conclusion is that craftspersons need to become involved in the work of heritage institutions, not only as objects or informants.
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