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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969, et al.
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14 dialogseminarier från Jokkmokk till Helsingborg : 14 dialogue seminars on traditional craft skills - from Jokkmokk to Helsingborg
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- med syftet att informera om Hantverkslaboratoriet, att bjuda in till diskussion om verksamhetens utformning, samt att samla in förslag på projekt och samarbeten. Aktörer från landets 21 län har inbjudits till 14 platser, från Jokkmokk i norr till Helsingborg i söder. Utbildningsinstitutioner, länsstyrelsernas kultur och naturvårdsenheter, hemslöjdskonsulenterna, byggnadsvårdscentran, besöksträdgårdar, länsmuseerna, stiften m.fl. har medverkat. Totalt har dialogseminarierna samlat 320 personer. De huvudsakliga frågeteman som behandlats i gruppdiskussionerna är 1. Kunskapssituationen för traditionella hantverkskunskaper, 2. Materialförsörjningen inom kulturmiljövården, 3. Förslag på projekt, och 4. Nätverk och samarbete.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Att återbruka kunskap : To recycle craft knowledge
- 2010
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Ingår i: Byggnadskultur. - 0348-6885. ; :2010:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kunskap krävs för vård av äldre byggnader. Men hur vårdar man kunskap? Kan man återuppta förlorat hantverkskunnande? I den här artikeln presenteras Hantverkslaboratoriet, som ett nytt försök att möta ett gammalt problem, nämligen behovet av hantverkskompetens för att vårda äldre byggnader och kulturmiljöer.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Betongvågen
- 2014
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Ingår i: Byggnadskultur. - 0348-6885. ; :3/2011, s. 6-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Byggnaden som kunskapskälla : The building as a source of knowledge
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Buildings are indeed mute, yet many historians and architects claim that they can nevertheless speak. The challenge is to understand their language. This thesis examines the building as a source of knowledge. Setting out from a repertoire of historical investigation methods used by professional actors within the field of architectural conservation, the thesis deals with the question of what standard buildings can teach us about the past. What can buildings say, and to whom? The thesis is based on a case study of the national cultural reserve of Örnanäs in the region of Skåne in the south of Sweden. Örnanäs serves as a laboratory for action-based research and involves both conservationists and craftsmen. The unit of analysis is not the site in itself but the context and process of investigation. The process is examined from three perspectives, which correspond to the layout of the thesis: the forensic perspective on material culture, the source pluralism perspective, which refers to the possibility of combining information from multiple sources, and the actor perspective, which sheds light on how the actors involved influence the investigation. A theoretical platform is given by Carlo Ginzburg’s perspectives on diagnosis through clues and Martin Weaver’s approach in ‘forensic conservation’. The results constitute a set of reflections and judgements on a range of different survey methods and sources. In focus are working methods that facilitate an increased exchange between practice-based research and research-based practice. The forensic perspective activates the building as a source of knowledge, and by combining different approaches it is possible to shed light on the history of the building from many different angles. Inquiry of historic construction, material use and signs of toolmarks, tested through processual reconstruction, is a method that has been systematically examined. The conclusion is that this method requires craft skills, yet it also opens up for cross-disciplinary work and thinking. The results articulate the importance of a heuristic approach. As conservationists and architectural historians we need to oscillate back and forth between the details and the whole, between observations and logical reasoning and between a physio-technical and socio-cultural perspective in order to uncover the layers and traces of the history of a building. Keywords: Architectural conservation, historic buildings, building survey, survey methods, historical sources, building documentation, mapping, architectural drawing, architectural analysis, forensic conservation, reconstruction, historical work process, traditional building craft.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Byggnaden som kunskapskälla
- 2014
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Ingår i: Fråga Föremålen. Red. Anna Maria Forssberg & Karin Sennefeldt.. - Lund : studentlitteratur. - 9789144089805 ; , s. 71-88
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna handbok beskriver historiker, arkeologer, etnologer, konstvetare, vetenskapshistoriker, ekonomhistoriker, litteraturvetare och museiintendenter de många olika sätt man kan arbeta med materiell kultur på. Människans historia är också föremålens historia. Vi har skapat allt från enkla bruksföremål till avancerade industritillverkade apparater. Föremålen är inte bara praktiska hjälpmedel utan även uttryck för status och identitet. Men det är inte bara vi människor som format föremålen, föremålen har också format oss. Under senare år har historiskt inriktade forskare blivit alltmer intresserade av materiell kultur – både på ett teoretiskt och empiriskt plan. Denna nya källkategori leder till nya utmaningar för forskaren. Vilka frågor kan man ställa med hjälp av föremål? Vad kan föremål berätta som inte en text kan? Var hittar man historiska föremål? Boken behandlar mötet med det materiella, vilken roll föremål har spelat i konsumtionen, vilken logik som har styrt samlande av föremål samt hur föremål har varit del i att skapa vår verklighet. Dessutom innehåller den en praktisk vägledning till hur man undersöker föremål steg-för-steg och en presentation av Sveriges museer och deras samlingar. Fråga föremålen är främst avsedd som kurslitteratur i humanistiska ämnen vid universitet och högskolor där man arbetar med materiell kultur. Boken är också användbar för alla som arbetar i museivärlden.
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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
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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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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Forensisk byggnadsundersökning. Metodik för ökat utbyte mellan arkitekturhistorisk forskning och antikvarisk praktik : Perspectives on historical sources and methods in conservation practice
- 2012
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Ingår i: Arkitekturhistorien och praktikerna. Charlmers, Arkitektur och Göteborgs universitet, Kulturvård 2012.05.03-04.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Setting out from a repertoire of historical investigation methods used by professional actors within the field of architectural conservation, this paper deals with the question of what standard buildings can teach us about the past. The paper is based on a case study of the national reserve of Örnanäs in the region of Skåne. Örnanäs serves as a laboratory for action-based research and involves both conservationists and craftsmen. The context and process of investigation is examined from three perspectives: a forensic perspective on material culture, a source pluralism perspective, which refers to the possibility of combining information from multiple sources, and an actor perspective, which sheds light on how the actors involved influence the investigation. A theoretical platform is given by Carlo Ginzburg’s perspectives on diagnosis through clues and Martin Weaver’s approach in ‘forensic conservation’. The results constitute a set of reflections and judgements on survey methods and sources. In focus are working methods that facilitate an increased exchange between practice-based research and research based practice. The forensic perspective activates the building as a source of knowledge, and by combining different approaches it is possible to shed light on the history of the building from many different angles. Inquiry of historic construction, material use and signs of toolmarks, tested through processual reconstruction, is a method that has been systematically examined. The conclusion is that this method requires craft skills, yet it also opens up for cross-disciplinary work and thinking. The results articulate the importance of a heuristic approach. As conservationists and architectural historians we need to oscillate back and forth between the details and the whole, between observations and logical reasoning and between a physio-technical and socio-cultural perspective in order to uncover the layers and traces of the history of a building.
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- Almevik, Gunnar, 1969
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Hantverkare emellan: perspektiv på hantverkens kunskapskultur
- 2014
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Ingår i: Hantverkare emellan. - Mariestad : University of Gothenburg. - 9789198188318 ; , s. 7-27
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I den här boken möts hantverkare för att tala om hantverksmetoder, material och redskap, men också om olika yrkesvägar och sätt att lära sig ett hantverk. Boken är resultatet av ett projekt som syftar till att stimulera den informella utbildningen, den som bygger på personliga möten och kunskapsöverföring mellan hantverkare. Tanken är också att visa hur intervjuer och observationer kan användas som redskap i det livslånga lärandet.
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